Editorial: In the search for COVID's origin, guard against hate
Editorial: In the search for COVID's origin, guard against hate Express-News Editorial Board FacebookTwitterEmail The scapegoat population is skyrocketing. Name a calamity, and there is a conspiracy theory to explain it — and a group to condemn for it. Some people — and they are legion — scorn facts and create their own truth or find distortions in online forums. The result is ugly. Jewish Americans were blamed for the recent airstrikes in Gaza, and Asian Americans have been targeted for a pandemic believed to have originated in China. On Memorial Day, an Asian woman was attacked outsid...