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| Coronavirus Has Europe Treating Chinese People Like the Plague - The Daily Beast Posted: 31 Jan 2020 10:12 AM PST  ROME—The sign taped to the glass door of a popular gelateria in front of Rome's iconic Trevi Fountain is perfectly clear, and perfectly ugly. Written in both Chinese and English, it states what pretty much everyone in a country of hypochondriacs and the rest of Europe is thinking: "Due to international safety measures, all people coming from China are not allowed to have access to this place." The writer then apologizes for any inconvenience. Italy has confirmed just two coronavirus cases despite quarantining 7,000 people on a cruise ship this week over a feverish woman from Hong Kong who had, as it turned out, nothing but the flu. A full 24 hours after the woman was cleared, citizens of the port town of Civitavecchia near Rome staged a protest at the port, demanding that all 750 Chinese passengers on board be tested for the disease before anyone could get off the ship. The two cases that actually are confirmed in Italy are a Chinese couple who traveled from Wuhan to Milan and then across the peninsula on a bus tour with more than 100 other Chinese tourists over the last five days, sparking a panic across the entire country as authorities alert everyone at every stop of their tour—highway rest areas included. The hotel where they were staying, just a block from the Colosseum, was cordoned off with armed police on Friday, prompting passersby to ask each other if there was a terrorist threat. You would think the epidemic has reached plague proportions. On Friday, Italy's civil protection authority announced a six-month "state of emergency" over the health crisis—the first time in the country's history. Twelve people who are tied to the confirmed cases are in Rome's Spallanzani Infectious Disease Hospital under surveillance. But Chinese restaurants, Chinese-owned convenience stops and even coffee bars with Chinese staff have been empty all week. In Tuscany, where the town of Prato has the highest concentration of Chinese residents in the country, Italians have stopped sending their children to school out of fear they'll contract the virus. About five million Chinese tourists visit Italy each year, pouring millions of euros into the economy, but the Rome Tourism Bureau told The Daily Beast that many tour guides have called off group tours for Chinese people "until things blow over" out of fear their very presence will make other tourists feel uncomfortable. There are also 300,000 Chinese residents living and working across Italy, many in the service and fashion industries. The lack of government guidance on how to handle the epidemic has angered the Chinese community across Italy, many of whom feel betrayed that the government seems to be scapegoating them, according to the head of Rome's Chinese Community in Italian media interviews. "On Friday, Italy's civil protection authority announced a six-month "state of emergency" over the health crisis—the first time in the country's history." A Chinese woman who runs a small convenience store in the bustling neighborhood of Trastevere told The Daily Beast that she has simply started wearing a surgical mask and rubber gloves because Italians wouldn't enter her store. "I haven't been to China for more than 10 years, but they are so scared of us, it just makes sense to show them I'm being safe," she said. "It's either this or risk closing if I lose business." Matteo Salvini, the leader of Italy's xenophobic far-right League party, didn't miss an opportunity to exploit the situation. "Every day dozens of flights arrive in Italy from China," he said at a recent rally. "We need checks, checks and more checks." At a civil protection press conference in Rome on Friday, the panel of doctors meant to calm fears continued to insist that only people with symptoms were contagious despite confirmation last weekend that the opposite is true. There have also been troubling reports of blatant racism and bullying in the Italian press including how a Chinese-Italian boy playing in a school soccer match in Milan was told by an opponent, "I hope you get the virus, too." Roberto Giuliani, director of the prestigious Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome, was sanctioned by the institution after telling students from China, Japan and even South Korea that they needed a doctor certificate to attend class—even if they had not traveled to China recently. The same paranoia has sparked a race debate in France, where six cases have been confirmed. There, Chinese citizens have started using the hashtag #JeNeSuisPasUnVirus or "I am not a virus" after the local newspaper Le Courier Picard used the race baiting headlines "Yellow Alert" and "Yellow Peril" over a photo of a Chinese woman wearing a white surgical mask. The French aren't only stigmatizing Chinese people but all Asians, it seems. Shana Cheng, a 17-year-old Paris resident of Vietnamese and Cambodian origin, told the BBC that she was hassled on a Paris bus last weekend. "There's a Chinese woman, she is going to contaminate us, she needs to go home," Cheng says she heard two passengers say. Then she said they looked at her "in a disgusted way, as if I was the virus." Another woman tweeted, "Not all Asians are Chinese. Not all Chinese were born in China and not all have been there. An Asian who coughs doesn't have the #coronavirus. Insulting an Asian because of the virus is like insulting a Muslim because of the bombings." In Germany, the only other continental European country with confirmed cases so far—six and counting tied to the automotive supplier Webasto in Stanberg—things aren't much better. A 33-year-old German who worked there is the first human-to-human contact case in Europe after attending a training session hosted by a visiting Chinese colleague who has since returned to Wuhan. All such training sessions with Chinese visitors have since been suspended. As the number of confirmed cases grows across Europe, fear will surely spread, too. And a continued lack of guidance by authorities about how the virus is actually transmitted and who potential carriers are will undoubtedly feed racism and xenophobia, which risks becoming a worse epidemic than the disease itself.  |
| Sound artist Christine Sun Kim to sign National Anthem at Super Bowl - Yahoo Sports Posted: 30 Jan 2020 06:56 AM PST   California-born artist Christine Sun Kim will sign the National Anthem at the upcoming Super Bowl LIV. The American artist, known for distilling sounds and spoken language in her work, will perform the National Anthem alongside pop star Demi Lovato during football's biggest night. Lovato will sing "The Star-Spangled Banner" ahead of the much-awaited face-off between the San Francisco 49ers and the Kansas City Chiefs. Meanwhile, Kim will deliver her own rendition of the National Anthem in American Sign Language (ASL) from nearby on stage, with the artist hoping that her performance will sensibilize millions of homes watching the Super Bowl LIV to sign language. "Representation matters a great deal to me, and I hope that seeing a Deaf person signing the anthem will bring attention to various issues that plague our community: language-deprived deaf babies, police brutality towards disabled people, a lack of mental health services, and many others," the artist recently told artnet News. While the National Association of the Deaf and the NFL have collaborated on featuring ASL interpreters during the Super Bowl for years, Kim explained that she was at first reluctant about the idea of performing during America's most-watched sporting event. "Honestly, I'm not exactly big on watching signed songs or interpreted music. The Deaf community has this amazing group of poets who can really sign with so much rhythm; however, the ones who sign songs written by non-deaf people get so much more attention because that's the kind of content the hearing world values," she elaborated, adding that she considers herself pretty patriotic. Kim's performance at the Super Bowl will take place a few months after the artist made headlines when she threatened to remove her work from the 2019 Whitney Biennial if Warren Kanders was not removed from the museum's board of trustees. Kim and seven other prominent artists refused to participate in the biennial over Kanders's ownership of companies that manufacture tear gas and other weapons for the police and military. The vice chairman stepped down from his position at the Whitney Museum in late July 2019. In addition to performing alongside Lovato at Miami's Hard Rock Stadium, Kim will debut new work in the upcoming solo exhibition at the MIT List Visual Arts Center. Opening on February 7, "Christine Sun Kim: Off Charts" will notably feature a new series of charcoal drawings as well as the audio installation, "One Week of Lullabies for Roux."  |
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| Posted: 31 Jan 2020 06:32 AM PST The novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) is rapidly spreading through the China mainland and internationally. Coronavirus, which can jump between humans and animals, was first detected in Wuhan City, Hubei province, last year. But the infection has now spread to at least 22 countries outside of China, including the UK, fuelling fears for humanity's safety. Coronavirus infections have been confirmed in France, Germany, Japan, the US, Australia, Singapore, Macau, Malaysia, Cambodia, Sri Lanka, the UAE, South Korea, Vietnam, Thailand, Canada, Nepal and others. Some have even bizarrely claimed the 15th-century writer and supposed mystic Nostradamus predicted the outbreak of a "great plague" in the future. Twitter user Marco Malacara said: "The antichrist leading the White House, locusts, floods, flies, coronavirus. I think this is what Nostradamus was telling us about 465 years ago." Another person tweeted in Spanish, which translated reads: "The plague of the 21st century has arrived. A Nostradamus prophecy. We will die very soon. #coronavirus" READ MORE: Coronavirus origin: Source of deadly virus revealed by scientists?
Did Nostradamus predict the coronavirus epidemic in China?The Chinese viral outbreak began in December last year when a newly discovered strain of the coronavirus, Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV), was discovered in Wuhan. The virus was initially traced to a busy seafood market and the number of infected has skyrocketed in the last week. Coronavirus infections have since been confirmed in Thailand, France, Germany, Nepal, South Korea, Japan, Australia and the US. Online conspiracy theorists have now suggested the Michele de Nostradame, or Nostradamus, predicted the epidemic in the 15th century. Nostradamus' followers consider the man to be a powerful prophet and seer who predicted the Great Fire of London in 1666 and the rise of Adolf Hitler in 1933. Nostradamus penned his supposed prophecies in the form of mystic passages known as quatrains. The bulk of Nostradamus' quatrains were published in 1555 in his magnum opus Les Propheties.
One of these quatrains, Century 2:53, could be a reference to the coronavirus, according to online claims. The passage reads: "The great plague of the maritime city "Will not cease until there be avenged the death "Of the just blood, condemned for a price without crime, "Of the great lady outraged by pretence." DON' MISS
Hubei Province is a landlocked part of eastern China, so it is unlikely Wuhan is the "maritime city" mention by Nostradamus. The disease was, however, traced to a seafood market, which could be a loose link to the quatrain. Nostradamus mentioned another plague in Century 2:56. The passage reads: "One whom neither plague nor steel knew how to finish, "Death on the summit of the hills struck from the sky: "The abbot will die when he will see ruined "Those of the wreck wishing to seize the rock." Should you believe any claims about Nostradamus prophecies?According to Brian Dunning, the author of the Skeptoid podcast, Nostradamus' predictions require a great deal of hindsight to link to world events. Mr Dunning said Nostradamus' writings are grossly misrepresented and not genuine forecasts of the future. He said: "Nostradamus' writings are exploited in a number of fallacious ways. "Ambiguous and wrong translations, 'creative' interpretations, hoax writings, fictional accounts, and the breaking of non-existent codes within his quatrains all contribute to a vast body of work, all of it wrong, and many times the size of everything Nostradamus ever actually wrote." The sceptic added: "Michel de Nostredame was truly one of the brilliant lights of his day, but to subscribe to false stories and urban legends is to disrespect who the man actually was. "Appreciate his contributions to medicine and Renaissance literature, and don't trivialise his good works in favour of a pretended history of paranormal magical powers." Additional reporting from Maria Ortega.  |
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