Kim used his platform to call for an end to racially charged violence that surrounds the disease. Adding "Please stop the prejudice and senseless violence against Asian people. Randomly beating elderly, sometimes homeless Asian Americans is cowardly, heartbreaking, and inexcusable. Yes, I'm Asian, and yes I have coronavirus but I did not get it from china, I got it in America, in New York City. Despite what political leaders want to call it, I don't consider the place where it's from as important as the people who are sick and dying."