In his caption, which was posted all in capital letters — as per Edison’s usual posts — he wrote: “COVID-19 IS A GLOBAL PROBLEM / SO STFU AND STOP BEING RACIST / ITS 2020 YALL”, along with the hashtag “wash the hate”. From 8 Days
On February 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the 2019 novel coronavirus, which was previously known as the “Wuhan virus” due to its alleged origins in the Chinese city, would officially be called “COVID-19” in order to avoid references to a specific location and prevent stigmatisation.
A month later, Anthony has decided to take to his Facebook page a month later to air his grievances about this decision. “The Wuhan virus is the Wuhan virus. The WHO no longer has any prestige and no one listens to them anymore, and yet they bothered to change the name to something that’s so difficult to remember.”
The outspoken 58-year-old went on to compare this situation with other ailments that are named after countries, suggesting that he refuses to refer to COVID-19 as anything but the “Wuhan virus” unless “'Hongkong foot' (athlete’s foot) is called 'China foot', Japanese encephalitis is called 'Chinese encephalitis', the Spanish flu is called the 'Strong Chinese flu', and German measles is called the 'New China measles'”. From 8 Days
Edison Chen was politically sensitive about the stigmatisation of China and Chinese by the Americans. Though he was born and brought up in Canada, he still has pride in being Chinese.
Anthony Wong was dumped by his English father who left him with his mother in Hong Kong when he scooted back to England. Did he care whether he lived or died? He was raised by his mother in Hong Kong and found success as an actor in Hong Kong. A few years back he traced his root to England, found his half brother, and left for England to become an angmoh. From his angry loose comments, it was obvious that he hated Chinese. Hope he did not hate himself for being half Chinese with Chinese blood and DNA.



