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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd be fine growing. I am from SF and Chinese-American, and I know that Chinatown is actually pretty low-risk.

In Chinatown in SF, many of the restaurants/businesses are owned by families who have been here for many, many generations. They are US citizens and many have never even been to China and do not.  If you are like, "oh but they speak Chinese," actually, most of the older restaurant owners and businesspeople in SF Chinatown, when they are speaking among themselves, do not even speak a dialect of Chinese that people in modern China speak. The elderly in Chinatown often speak a dialect of Chinese that was spoken by the old railroad workers in America in the 1890s because that is when their ancestors came over. These people are more Californian than any of us.

The poor Chinese workers in restaurants, delivery drivers, etc. who arrived more recently absolutely *cannot* afford to go back on a restaurant worker's salary. Plane tickets, etc. are expensive. Most of them have NOT been back to China since they immigrated here and many actually never go outside of San Francisco. And, if anyone's wondering, they did NOT immigrate from Hubei province (most of these people speak Cantonese, which is not spoken in Hubei), though that is not relevant here. Some of the other workers are also immigrants, but not from China.

As for the other shoppers, etc. it's honestly a mix of locals (who fall into the above groups--low risk), tourists, etc. In other words, this would be like going to any other long-established ethnic enclave in an American city, one with a lot of tourists and security for the parade.

The people in the bay area who would be going back and forth to China, especially higher-risk areas for this virus typically do NOT shop or go to SF Chinatown. Those people are white-collar Mandarin-speakers. They tend to live and shop outside of Chinatown (may explain why there's a case in Santa Clara county)

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I wouldn’t be so worried about the people who own or work at the businesses vs the patrons of these businesses. Who goes to the Chinese supermarket or the restaurants? Chinese overseas students who may have returned after new year festivities or Chinese tourists. You know that Chinese tours take their people mainly to Chinese eating establishments while traveling right.[/quote]

Chinese tourists and Chinese students don't go to SF Chinatown. They go to the Chinese stores/restaurants in the suburbs/outer areas. [/quote]

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