No joke. Here's the
proclamation (
archive). And because I don't like euphemisms, even if they're widely understood, these aren't the kind of massage parlors you visit because you've been working in the warehouse all day and your feet and back are killing you. These are the kinds of massage parlors you visit to get your cock massaged. They were very highly reviewed on rubmaps.ch. (You have to join to read the reviews, I didn't bother archiving.) So we are lowering our flags for criminals who were killed during the operation of their illegal enterprise.
Maybe they're trafficking victims and they are completely innocent, but it's almost inconceivable a legal adult immigrant could be coerced into giving bored handjobs for $30/hour + tip if they didn't want to. And it still wouldn't be noteworthy enough for national mourning.
The only reason the administration is doing this is to promote the absurd idea of white supremacists going around committing anti-Asian hate crimes because Trump said China virus.