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Roundtables (April 2020): How A Pandemic & Xenophobia is Affecting You
Attendance
This roundtable discussion was incorporated to MAFA's Sampaguita: online MFAS week. We had the pleasure of Zoom to invite more of the community to talk about their knowledge, feelings, resentments, acts of solidarity around COVID-19. MFAS Committee members: Mat Rodriguez (UW-Madison's FASO) & Millicent Reyes (UW-Milwaukee's FSU) facilitated the conversation between various schools. It was wonderful having so many perspectives talk about this issue affecting the Asian American community and the global after-effects.
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Livestream: Click Here
Notes Section
Current COVID-19 Information
Origin:
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), “Coronaviruses (CoV) are a large family of viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases such as Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV). A novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a new strain that has not been previously identified in humans” (WHO, 2020).
Conspiracy Wars - Mass Hysteria spreads faster than the virus
China created in a lab
Bat Soup - judgment on what cultures eat
5G
Virus Now:
All states have cases, not all states are on stay at home orders
Curve is variable
2nd wave
Universities are looking into online schools until fall
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/harvard-study-some-social-distancing-required-into-2022.html
Intermittent Lockdowns
EX: China lifted the lockdown but seeing the spike again
Collectivist vs Individualist mindset
Taking precautions for the community vs
Issues with COVID-19
Discrimination:
against disabled people in Washington and Alabama state
UW Madison incident/hate crime
Purposeful Locations near Madison’s campus
Downfalls of Individualist culture
Experiences of racism
Microaggressions
Front-Line Workers
Cultural Differences
Selfish mindset toward healthcare workers & not staying home
Background on Fil-Am nurses: HIV/AIDS epidemic brought in more nurses to help with pandemics
How to support Family/Friends?
Offering words of support
Doing chores around the house to help out your family
Rifts in the minority community
Anti-blackness
Model Minority effects today
Eating Dog = Eating Bat parallel
Dehumanizing / Yellow Perrill
Who is worthy of attention/adoption
Colonialism - taking without knowledge
Closing: How to stay strong
Struggle with how to handle a situation appropriately
solidarity amongst minority communities