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The xenophobia virus and the COVID-19 pandemic
1Science and Education department, University Center of Formiga, Zito Vaz city, 95, Centenário, Formiga city, Minas Gerais State, Brazil.
Abstract:
The text addresses the risks involving xenophobia against the Chinese on the internet, and social networks, from the COVID-19 pandemic, in addition to demonstrating how irrational this manifestation is, especially the idea of virus creation in a laboratory. For this purpose, historical examples of how xenophobic prejudice is meaningless and have damaged humanity's trajectory in all world regions are addressed. Finally, I warn about the need to use science to confront the new coronavirus and abandon conspiracy theories.
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