China News Service, May 22 Question: Why is the New Crown epidemic also "American first"?
Author: Kim Long Run
In foreign affairs and international affairs, the Trump administration pursues the principle of "American first" and "makes the United States great again." Unexpectedly, this new crown epidemic is also "American priority". According to statistics released by Johns Hopkins University on the 22nd, the cumulative number of new crown cases diagnosed in the United States exceeded 1.57 million, and the number of deaths exceeded 94,000, ranking first in the world.
Trump regarded the most confirmed cases in the United States as the "medal of honor" and attributed it to "the United States leads the world in testing." This may indicate that the president really "understands" the new crown virus better than humans. However, public opinion generally believes that the new crown epidemic situation "America has priority", the government's weak anti-epidemic and chaotic command is definitely one of the main reasons.
From the timeline, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention learned about the new coronary pneumonia as early as December 31 last year. Minister of Health and Human Services Aza reported the matter to the White House for the first time on January 3 this year. However, for the next 70 days, the White House has not paid enough attention to the epidemic and missed the prevention and control opportunities many times.
On March 13, Trump declared a "national emergency", releasing the signal of the federal government's full response to the epidemic. However, it was also at this time that the development of the epidemic in the United States was gradually out of control, and the American people began to pay for the Trump Administration ’s early response to the missteps. Less than a week after the United States entered the "national emergency", the number of confirmed cases in the United States exceeded 10,000; on March 27, this number exceeded 100,000; on April 28, the United States became the world's first confirmed case to exceed one million s country.
From a professional point of view, the main reasons for this situation include continuous passenger input, large-scale gatherings, lack of protective measures to promote the spread of the virus in high-risk places and densely populated areas, inadequate detection and asymptomatic infections causing the virus to be undetected In case of spread, etc. These four reasons were included in the report released by the US CDC official website earlier this month. Although the report was not clear, the outside world knew at a glance that these four reasons were all related to the Trump administration ’s decision-making errors.
From the perspective of the government, Trump himself seriously underestimated the epidemic. He repeatedly put the opinions of his staff and professionals in the cabinet, and deployed the anti-epidemic based on "intuition". The factions within the White House wrestled with each other, fighting for the right to speak, until the deputy. President Pence began to sit in command of the White House outbreak response working group at the end of February, and the White House internal struggle was eased; the White House Staff and Health and Human Services Department, the US Centers for Disease Control and other departments are increasing budgets, adopting social isolation measures, virus testing and vaccines. There are obvious differences on a series of issues such as research and development, which seriously affect the efficiency of decision-making.
Judging from the coordination between the federal government and local governments, the two sides have been constantly fighting for the epidemic prevention and control, greatly reducing the efficiency of the anti-epidemic mechanism. At the beginning of the epidemic, due to insufficient attention, the federal government's guidance on the epidemic prevention of the states was "missing", and the distribution of materials was chaotic, causing the states to enter a battle for war and even raise prices. Coupled with the reasons for partisan politics, Trump and the Democratic governors on the Republican side openly "torn their faces", making it impossible for many places to get federal support in a timely manner.
Bill Gates' wife Melinda bluntly said in an interview recently, "The lack of leadership at the federal level is very frustrating and disappointing. 50 states must come up with their own solutions, which is inefficient and meaningless. Approach. It also cost people their lives. "
Judging from the relationship between the United States and the outside world, the Trump administration has spent a considerable amount of energy "swinging the pot" outwards, trying to pass on its own responsibility for weak epidemic resistance. On March 11, Trump accused European countries of failing to guard against death, causing European travellers to spread the virus to the United States; on March 16, Trump accused the new crown virus of "Chinese virus", and afterwards threw out "Wuhan is Remarks such as the source of the virus, "China conceals the epidemic" and "China should compensate". On April 14th, Trump announced that the United States would "break the confession" to WHO and said that it would hold the WHO accountable.
After sorting out, it is not difficult to find that the Trump administration is leading a "confused battle". If early measures are taken, inspections are increased, and prevention and control are concentrated, the American people would not have to pay such a heavy price. The ineffectiveness of the epidemic prevention is a pot that the Trump administration wants to throw away.
What is more worrying is that just before the US epidemic has seen an inflection point, many places in the United States have entered a restart phase. Trump himself has repeatedly publicly emphasized the importance of restarting the economy and downplaying the risk of epidemic prevention and control. The Washington Post pointed out politely, "This is a killing approved by the state."
I do n’t know how long the new crown epidemic “U.S. priority” will continue under the leadership of the Trump administration. (Finish)