#TauntWoke is used pejoratively in this context to mean 'political correctness gone mad' (or something along these lines). The tweet reflects an attempt to apportion blame, which it does so along nationalistic lines. The statement seems to be simply parroting a US conservative narrative, which is a thinly-veiled attempt to deflect attention/culpability for the US's poor emergency response to #ConditionVirusCOVID19 (and #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump's ultimate failure to recognise the urgency of the crisis). #SlurChinaWuhanVirus #ToponymAsiaChina

The graphic functions as a challenge would-be conservatives, which in doing so symbolically asks readers to accept the poster's idealogical perspective i.e. that the crisis was caused by 'the other' #ToponymAsiaChina and not in fact, one manifest in the failings of #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump's presidency e.g. ^[tweet]