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My brother and I run a small restaurant. A Doordash Driver came to our store for pick up. And he said, “I don't want to get close to you. You are Asian and you have Coronavirus”. We wanted to talk to Doordash manager to discuss about the issue. But we have not received a call from them yet.
My mom and I, both of Chinese descent, were walking on the sidewalk. A man walking towards us tried to shoo us away from him with his hand and shouted, “Stay away, I don’t want your coronavirus!”
The tax accountant I was working with at the time sent out a blanket email in late March to all his clients saying he was advising doing tele-conferences rather than meetings in person due to the “Chinese Virus Epidemic”. At best, this is unprofessional and insensitive, and at worst, it’s in-your-face racism (to use his business as a platform from which to project his racial biases). He later sent out a second similar blanket email where he referred to the "Wuhan Virus". This behavior encourages racist people to openly express their racism towards Asian-Americans, as it serves no other purpose.
I was hiking with my girlfriend and her roommates in a regional park. At the beginning of our hike, a woman walking the opposite direction to us approached our group and punched both my girlfriend and I in the face and said, "f** you coronavirus." Our group did not escalate the matter further, and the woman walked away from us without a single look back.
There was a sign placed outside of a local business advertising a sale on their ice cream, calling it the "China Virus Special". The owner was contacted and he refused to change or remove the sign, but as more residents expressed their anger in person and online and threatened to boycott, the sign was removed after 3-4 days.
My next door neighbor says in my surveillance camera, "You are dead!" I reported this to the Police Department. After the police are gone, he continues with racial slurs. Now he says, "Chinese disease. I live next to a Chinaman. Oh my God. It is a Chinese disease. That's what President Trump says." I am very upset that I have to deal with this ignorance and bigotry in my backyard.
I was at the gas station down the street from my apartment in Highland Park when a man pulled up behind me and got out of the car mumbling about Wuhan and Chinese people. He seemed a little manic and unstable so I tried to leave the gas station as soon as I could.
When I turned to glance at him, he had his phone out at chest level as if being covert, seemingly filming me. When we briefly made eye contact he said "f*** you" as he continued to film me. Each time I made full eye contact, he turned his back from me and continued to mumble as if trying to hide that he was filming. I felt unsafe so I got in my car and quickly snapped a picture of his license plate. I really didn't know what else to do. It had me fuming...there's so many Asian American communities in Alhambra and SGV which are neighboring Highland Park - I was thinking about their safety and how this man might've already harassed them.
During the news of the closure of non-essential businesses in Nevada, my apartment complex sent out a general email noting that there was a first confirmed case of COVID-19. A majority of residents I spoke to on my walks with my dog (from 6 feet away) told me they hoped that whoever it was, gets better (since the name listed on the apartment-wide announcement was anonymous). However, a few neighbors had called me on my phone and asked if it was I who had COVID-19 because they presumed I was "Asian" and more "accessible" to the virus because of their assumptions on where I might shop, eat, socialize, etc. In my own apartment complex, where I've called home for the past year or so, I didn't know that I would be surrounded by misconceptions, hate, prejudice, and plain ignorance. Nevada is a diverse state, and I was not expecting to be surrounded by such negative assumptions about who I am, where I go to get groceries, and how I live my life. This form of "attack" is not as violent or physical like many of the cases we now see in the news. However, this type of prejudice-filled thinking is what brings many people to attacking Asian American Pacific Islanders across the country.
Racism has many forms and transforms itself in many ways - even in intimate settings like at home. I hope the attacks, prejudice, and racist-filled thinking stops.
I was walking down the street in Manhattan with my partner and a woman wearing a mask turns to us, pulls down her mask, and says with disgust “the virus came from China.” We were in shock, and that’s when she spat in our direction. She kept walking and when I realized what happened, I called her a racist and I couldn't hear what she said but she said something back and kept walking, and that was the end of the interaction.
I was walking back from getting groceries when I saw an older gentleman approaching so I started walking closer along a building wall to practice social distancing. I became a bit more on guard as I noticed he kept staring at me and wasn't moving farther away. As he approached me, he snarled "your people disgust me" and spat on the ground at me.
Was on an afternoon neighborhood walk with my toddler son near our home. We needed some sunshine as we're self quarantining in a small apartment.
For context, we are a multiracial family -- our adopted son being Japanese American, his dad (me) being a white guy, and my wife/his mom being Filipina American.
A white, middle aged man in a gray/silver Prius slows to a halt near us, lowers his passenger side window, and tries to get my attention. Thinking he needed help, I approached with my son in my arms while keeping a safe social distance. The guy says to me, "Tell your kid when he grows up that China did all this."
In my confusion, it took a moment for the words and their intent to fully register. By that time he had pulled away. He was a complete stranger to us and yet decided a 2-year-old and his dad out for an innocent walk were fair game for aggressive hate mongering. I was pretty shaken up and the little consolation I had is that my son couldn't understand the words or the hateful intent. But my family, loved ones, and friends feel more unsettled with each passing day of this.
My ten year old son is Chinese. Before his school closed kids were picking on him, telling him he had the coronavirus.
My husband, daughter and I went to a local park to practice hitting tennis balls when there were three teenage boys on bikes and scooter hanging around the wall we wanted to use. When they saw us, one of them began to yell, "You got Corona? You got Corona?" It didn't dawn on my family immediately that they were yelling at us because we were talking. Soon, they started yelling, "You got Corona! You mother *****! You got Corona! F** you! F** you!" Then they sped by us on their bikes and scooter. Another Asian family entered the park at that time and had the same thing happen to them.
A FedEx driver put in "Signed for by C.COVID" after handing the package to my mother, who is Chinese American. The package was addressed to my sister, whose first initial is C.
I don't understand how they think it's okay to refer to customers as the coronavirus.
Union Jack liquor store, located in Louisville, CO had on their marquee “Thanks China”, and advertised a beer special for $14.88 (White supremacist number). When called out by the community, there were multiple stories given by the owner. As quoted in the local paper, he expressed that he has a sister in law who is Chinese, and who thought it was funny. Likewise, he defended the use of 1488 by saying that he didn’t know that this was derogatory, and “still doesn’t know what it means”. The latter assertion seems very unlikely.