Asian hate on the rise.
This is one of those things where if you're following me you're kind of unlikely to be in this category (so not sure posting this will achieve much) but regardless: this is pretty bonkers. "More than 20% of respondents said this year that people of Asian descent are at least partly responsible for Covid-19, compared to 11% last year."
What even is the logic here? "You can tell they were in on it because they were so diligent about wearing masks"?
Maybe it's a perversion of lab leak theory. I do at least partly "blame" the Chinese govt and a subset of Chinese researchers (but also: their American collaborators and funders) for covid... Though even there I see it as tragic, well-intentioned mistakes, not malice. But extrapolating that to "Asian Americans" is wild.