Some dumbass boomer actually brags about how batshit insane she's acting due to Chinese Lung AIDS fear (original article archive here: https://archive.is/0lHBX); Ace provides commentary and some context.

Our dominant culture stopped reigning people in from mental illness, and started instead affirmatively training people to be mentally ill, and to in fact cultivate mental illness the way one might cultivate a wine connoisseurship or gourmet's palate -- cultivating aspects of insanity as a badge of cultural prestige.