I feel for anybody minding their business and being attacked for the hell of it. Doing it to elderly people is a special kind of hateful and cowardly.
It makes me sad that this is happening to them but I know Asians whose families have been voting Republican since their families got to this country and I guarantee that even with the anti China remarks, a whole lot of them still voted for Trump. They single issue supported them
and just like what happens to blacks, Jews, gays, pick a minority and everybody who ain't an unspicy white male or rich white male who rides that Republican train, it eventually comes back to ride them with no Vaseline. I mean hell, Republicans are now to the point where Mike Pence was on the block to got lynched and the party Yeezy shrugged. If Mike Pence can get it anybody can.
As for the black dude spraying Febreze on the Asian dude, he looks like the type to try that with anybody who he thought couldn't whup his
. There are lots of black people who feel some kind of way about Asians for historical economic reasons (which goes back to politics) and Covid just gave a lot of folks an excuse to act on what they wanted to do anyway.