Mainly psychological epidemics .. How does the Corona pandemic feed hate in America?

The more you read about epidemics, the more you realize that it is a psychological phenomenon, as it was not only related to people with viruses and diseases, but was formed through the behavior of people and the ways in which they behaved.

In his book, "Epidemiology Psychology," Stephen Taylor, an Australian academic in psychiatry, sees epidemiological seasons linked to racism and blaming certain groups of people, partly because "humans are tribal in nature."

On the other hand, epidemics are controlled and their spread is limited when people agree to do certain things, such as rules of hygiene, infection control, and compliance with social distance; but if people refuse - for various psychological reasons - to do these things, the epidemic will continue to spread.

In cases of historical epidemics, there was racism, a sense of panic and extreme anxiety, a rush to hospitals, and people became frustrated with self-isolation and other forms of social exclusion, and it is clear that psychology is very important in understanding how people deal with the threat of an epidemic infection, and indeed we note All these things in the current Corona pandemic.

And if love is the parallel disease of the cholera epidemic in the famous Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez's novel, the hatred practiced by racist white Americans is the psychological illness parallel to the Corona pandemic.

Hate spread
In his report published by the British Middle East Eye website, Professor of Modern Arab Politics and History of Ideas at Columbia University Joseph Massad said that racist Americans - whether liberal or conservative - hate white and non-white Americans, alongside non-Americans, whatever their skin color. Just as they hated Native Americans when they invaded their country and killed them and stole their lands, African Americans when they enslaved them, and non-white and German immigrants during World War I, alongside Japanese Americans during World War II.

Since then, racist hatred of white Americans against all American imperialists has manifested itself, from Indochina and Latin America to Arabs, then Muslims, to mainly include competitors of American power from the Russians and Chinese at a later time, the report adds.

Since the outbreak of the Corona Virus pandemic in the Chinese city of Wuhan, anti-China racist tweets are reported to have increased by 900%.

In light of Trump's racist campaign against the Covid-19 virus, the FBI warned against an increase in hate crimes against Asian Americans, reporting that "three members of an Asian American family - including a two-year-old and a six-year-old child - were stabbed, and the accused confirmed that he had stabbed the family Because I think it is Chinese in origin, and it infects people with HIV infection. "

Besides the “Chinese virus,” the Corona virus is known by other names in the corridors of the White House, including "kung flu". Some American racist politicians and commentators have also blamed Chinese food habits as a source of the virus.

But this kind of racism does not take into account if Western eating habits of eggs contribute to the spread of diseases such as mad cow disease in England and E. coli in the United States.

In this context, African American journalist Elie Mistal asked whether these racist white Americans - including a fanatic senator John Cornin, who blames dietary habits for spreading the virus - would oppose the idea of ​​referring to E. coli disease as the "American cowboy waste epidemic" .

"Liberal hatred"
The writer pointed out that if liberal American Democrats and some liberal American media criticize Trump's anti-China racism, they also contribute to stirring more liberal hatred towards China and other countries such as Cuba, Russia, Iran and Venezuela. This reminds us of the political and intellectual culture that spread during the height of the Cold War with the Soviet Union.

While many countries in the world praise China for its success in containing the virus, and its generosity in helping other countries suffering from the epidemic, the liberal American media publishes articles about the evil behind Chinese motives in providing aid to countries, as well as trying to question China's success In fighting the deadly virus, as the writer put it.

Massad continues that the US State Department is busy defaming the Cuban doctors who have been dispatched all over the world to help the affected countries, such as Italy. Russia remains a target of American propaganda. Trump, who has not received any praise from his liberals for his efforts, has no choice but to praise himself and his performance during the pandemic period.

False countries
The author says that the pandemic revealed that the United States and its neoliberal allies in the European Union “are just fake states that are not only able to save their populations from disease, but also contribute to the growth of deaths and suffering as a result of the neoliberal economic policies that follow them,” blaming the defense of liberal thinkers for decades of presidents. Neoliberals and their policies are responsible for destroying the American welfare state and its health sector.

At the same time, US imperialist policy has found another opportunity in the Corona Virus pandemic to express its aggressive hatred and intensify its efforts to destroy its enemies in Iran, Iraq, Venezuela and Nicaragua, all in cooperation with liberal media, according to Massad.

Before and after the pandemic
Amid the pandemic, the United States issued an indictment against Venezuelan President-elect Nicholas Maduro and his associates, by making trumped-up charges related to drug terrorism, and offered a reward for their arrest, as the Congress - which is dominated by a majority of white Democrats - devoted some of its time to passing a bill He seeks to overthrow the democratically elected government of Nicaragua, as the academic at the American Columbia University puts it.

The writer emphasized that Israel's hatred of the Palestinians continues even in light of the outbreak of the Corona virus, which threatens the cooperative areas managed by the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank and Gaza, which is besieged by Israel.

He added that there is a clear fact that white racial American hatred and imperialist aggression, not to mention European racism, colonial hatred, and Israeli racism towards the Palestinians, existed before the pandemic broke out and will continue today and in the future.

In conclusion, the author explained that the popular feelings of hatred in the time of the Koruna were present in other times, and the present pandemic is only another occasion for the spread of imperial violence and hatred, as he put it.