Earlier quoted context omitted.
If we were letting racism against the Chinese dominate our response, we’d be dismissing the outbreak while numbers outside China were small.
The outbreak is being handled very well through the Chinese planned economy. Despite this, Western media is intensifying the panic. As a result of it, Chinese people are being discriminated against worldwide.
It may (or may not) be being handled as well as any government could, but its not being effectively contained, it has spread around the world, and it is continuing to spread.
> Despite this, Western media is intensifying the panic.
Western media is accurately reporting the facts, and the policy responses. Intense concern is appropriate.
> As a result of it, Chinese people are being discriminated against worldwide.
How? Some places have adopted or are preparing precautions directed at travelers entering from China (which is a different, though overlapping, set from "Chinese people"), but that's a reasonable step given that it is neither contained nor, in the very short term, containable by China, by the facts that the Chinese state has acknowledged (transmissibility during incubation period, number of people who traveled out of the effective area before any containment was in place, etc.)