Kansas City Asian-Amercian Confession: Fear Of Coughing In Public

First person perspective on local life offers well-deserved bully pulpit for this scribe given that progressive local public TV seems eager to break down locals by way of demographics . . .

"But after seeing reports of attacks against Asian Americans and facing rampant xenophobia on social media, it forced my guard up in a different way.

"Making my way down each aisle, I was extra vigilant to stifle allergy sneezes, fix my gaze downward and thrust hands in my pockets. I felt like every eye was on me, even if it wasn’t."

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Age of Coronavirus: Quarantine Diary

A couple of weeks ago I picked up groceries for my parents - my first excursion into a crowded space since Kansas City's stay-at-home order took effect. The COVID-19 outbreak has heightened anxieties around once mundane errands like grocery shopping. Be careful to maintain a six-foot distance in jam-packed aisles.

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  1. So stupid to blame innocent Asian people. Did anyone go after German immigrants during the German measles outbreak? How about the Spanish Flu? But yet you same people will praise Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama for calling all of us Islamophobia people when they do willful damage to the world. How funny.

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  2. Spanish flu started in America, Kansas in fact. You may want to think before you type.

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  3. If your not wearing a mask and gloves at this point when out in the stores here in KCMO your either nuts or suicidal.

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  4. Problem is KCMO has the dumbest freaking population in the Midwest.

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  5. ^^^^ dimwits, libtards and sjw’s have ruined kc, everybody else is doing fine without them.... hint hint!

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  6. @9:03.....Hey Fuckwhistle, we'll add your name to the list too, since you're the
    one with all the brown mud like material around your mouth.....you left your spoon in trumpoops ass.........

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