Yes, it is insulting.
Flip it around. Lets say someone blames the Israeli peasants for what the traitor leaders do. Is that fair?
The virus was not created by the billion + peasants, but by the tyrants.
When this first happened, Chinese and Chinese-looking people were attacked by whites, blacks, 'spanics, Jews, etc... everyone blamed the Chinese peasants. And I do mean attacked. That means bloodied.