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发帖数: 338 | 1 Fox News Host Claims Chinese People Eating ‘Raw Bats’ to Blame for
Coronavirus
Fox News host Jesse Watters demanded a formal apology from China on Monday
before pushing unproven rumors that the new coronavirus came from Chinese
citizens “eating raw bats and snakes.”
With fears heightening around the virus as the death toll in the United
States jumped to at least six on Monday, Watters began Monday’s broadcast
of Fox News chatfest The Five by lashing out at China, which has been the
epicenter of the growing pandemic.
“I would like to just ask the Chinese for a formal apology,” Watters said.
“This coronavirus originated in China, and I have not heard one word from
the Chinese. A simple ‘I am sorry’ would do.”
As the rest of his colleagues appeared somewhat embarrassed and tried to
laugh off his rant, Watters then insisted that the virus originated from the
Chinese eating diseased uncooked animals.
“Let me tell you why it happened in China,” he declared. “They have these
markets where they were eating raw bats and snakes.”
“No, Jesse,” co-host Dana Perino pleaded as the other hosts could be seen
face-palming.
“They are very hungry people,” Watters continued, causing more laughter.
“The Chinese communist government cannot feed the people. And they are
desperate, this food is uncooked, it is unsafe. And that is why scientists
believe that’s where it originated from.”
“And according to The New York Times, Dana, the Chinese government has been
very deceitful and deceptive in the communicating the extent of the
infections to the world,” Watters concluded. “So, as I said, tomorrow I
will expect an apology.”
Except it is not clear that COVID-19, as it the disease is officially known,
originated at a Chinese market in which shoppers purchased bats to eat.
Earlier this year, right-wing media was abuzz over claims that “bat soup”
was to blame for the disease spreading, based largely on a viral video that
was later debunked. (The video was actually of a travel show host in a
Pacific island nation, and bats aren’t considered a delicacy in Wuhan, the
Chinese city where the virus first exploded.)
Furthermore, while a “wet market”—markets that sell live animals for food
and medicine—was initially believed to be the origin of the outbreak, it
appears that specific market may not have been the cause at all, as the
earliest known victims had no contact with it. And while the virus likely
originated with bats, it still hasn’t been fully established how it moved
from the bats to humans.
Watters, meanwhile, has a history of making culturally insensitive remarks
and innuendo, particularly about Asians. The Fox personality sparked outrage
in 2016 for a Chinatown segment that featured blatantly racist mockery of
Asian-Americans, | V*******n
发帖数: 1 | | l*******g
发帖数: 27064 | 3 确实有人生吃过蝙蝠，麻痹的还发到网上，说是苦的。。。。。 | G*F
发帖数: 427 | 4 美国还有人吃过屎呢。能说美国人爱吃食吗？
【在 l*******g 的大作中提到】
: 确实有人生吃过蝙蝠，麻痹的还发到网上，说是苦的。。。。。
| n****4
发帖数: 12553 | 5 前两天刚看到电视上，一个年轻人为了在朋友面前显，生吞大个小强，绝对惊悚
【在 G*F 的大作中提到】
: 美国还有人吃过屎呢。能说美国人爱吃食吗？
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