Husted says the words were aimed at the Chinese government’s failure to come clean on what it knows on the origins of COVID-19, and were not aimed at those of Chinese or Asian descent. He added in lengthy public comments Thursday that no harm was meant, that he has many Asian American friends and that the word Wuhan is “inseparable” from the back story of the pandemic referring to a city, not an ethnicity.
Wrong response.
Husted knows that using weaponized expressions like “China virus,” “Wuhan virus” and “Kung flu” is wrong. That it is dangerous. That it is something for which he should apologize.
Ohio Newspaper Calls on Lt. Gov. Jon Husted to Apologize for Wuhan Virus Tweet
On 4/4/21 at 10:30 AM EDT
The editorial board for northern Ohio s largest newspaper,
The Plain Dealer, demanded Sunday that GOP Lieutenant Governor Jon Husted issue an official apology over a Wuhan virus remark he made that stirred anti-Asian sentiment.
The board s latest op-ed was in response to Husted s March 26 tweet in which he called the coronavirus pandemic the Wuhan virus, a remark he later claimed was only intended to tie COVID-19 to a Chinese city, not its people. The board said Husted knows that using weaponized expressions such as China virus, Wuhan virus and Kung flu is wrong, but he did it any way.
2021-03-10 13:35:41 GMT2021-03-10 21:35:41(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
WASHINGTON, March 10 (Xinhua) Several legal groups have demanded an Ohio judge apologize after he used the term China Virus in a column published in a local bar association s newsletter, local media reports said.
Lake County Common Pleas Court Judge John P. O Donnell used the term China Virus three times in his article in the Lake Legal Views while addressing how he handled his duties during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Lake County Bar Association distributed the edition to its members last Wednesday, which quickly ignited a firestorm in the legal community.
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