“There’s a long history of thinking of Asians as disease carriers ... " @chinotronic, an associate professor of history and Asian American studies, explains the origins of the xenophobia underlying the Coronavirus panic to @Slate.

Kudos to @jane_c_hu for writing this very important story. One very real consequence of the current coronavirus outbreak? Racism against Asians.

Goes way back to the 1800s.

“There’s a long history of thinking of Asians as disease carriers that’s at least 200 years old,”