Why is "American anti-epidemic" causing chaos in the world?
Author: Chen Nian
For more than half a year since the New Corona virus invaded the world, some countries have been "stable" in the fight against epidemics, some countries have a "smart" way to fight the epidemic, and some countries have experienced hardships to get out of the storm. Words: In countries where the epidemic is "heart-taking", the outcome will not be too bad.
However, there is also such a country, although it is known as "the world's number one power", the anti-epidemic performance is "how can a mess be found"-the epidemic situation is still so bad, the inflection point is still far away, not only is it difficult to extricate itself in the mud, but also to the entire The world has brought countless troubles.
One is to expel immigrants from the "poisoned world" or trigger a global public health disaster.
Recently, a number of US media have revealed the “inhumane and illegal” immigration repatriation policy of the United States during the epidemic. Although the number of repatriations in recent months has decreased from 23,103 in January, it continues: 18,811 repatriations in March ; 9832 people in April; 7411 people in May; 2221 people were repatriated in the first 13 days of June. Since March, it has been a period of great popularity for the new American crown.
Among the repatriates, there are not many people who test positive for the new crown. At the end of April, the Guatemalan government reported that nearly one-fifth of the country’s new crown cases were related to people expelled from the United States. On a repatriation flight, 71 out of 76 repatriates tested positive for new coronavirus. The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention went to Guatemala to verify the above statement, and all 12 randomly selected deportees tested positive.
The US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement has held approximately 32,000 immigrants in detention centers across the United States. Overcrowded and harsh environments have become a hotbed for the spread of the new coronavirus.
US Democrats have sent letters to the Department of Homeland Security, accusing them of "using" the epidemic, claiming that "having new and comprehensive powers can immediately expel large numbers of immigrants, which clearly violates existing federal laws." The United Nations in May called on governments to suspend repatriation. Most European countries have suspended, but the repatriation flights of the United States have not been grounded.
According to relevant data, there are still dozens of repatriation flights every month from the United States to Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Brazil, Nicaragua, Ecuador, Haiti, Colombia and Jamaica.
Obviously, most of these countries are countries with fragile health and epidemic prevention systems. Expelling so many virus-carrying immigrants back to their countries will undoubtedly increase the epidemic prevention pressure of these countries or trigger a global public health disaster. Recently, American politicians have begun to spread rumors of "China's launching of viruses", but it is not known that the United States is so arrogant to expel immigrants, which is a veritable "poisoning world".
The second is the passive anti-epidemic and riding the dust, the "abandoning therapy" route has a bad effect.
July 4 is American Independence Day. According to data from the website of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 57,718 new cases of new crowns were diagnosed in the United States in the past 24 hours, setting a new high in the number of new cases in a single day since the outbreak. Florida and Texas became the new “epicenter” of this wave of rebounds, and many states halted economic renewal plans.
On June 30, local time, Fuch, an authoritative expert on infectious diseases in the United States, pointed out: "According to this trend, I will not be surprised that it may reach an additional 100,000 cases per day." He believes that the current US epidemic is moving in the "wrong direction", and is once again worried about the crowded situation and the lack of masks.
At a Trump campaign rally in June, senior White House officials did not wear masks, and few of the thousands of people present were wearing masks. A few hours before the rally began, several members of the Trump campaign team tested positive for the new crown virus.
It can be seen that the current rebound of the US epidemic is the result of the superimposition of many states in the past, such as the hasty restart of the economy in the United States, the successive social movements, the rising popularity of the election, and other factors. It is the United States' self-sufficiency. American scholars pessimistically predict that the turning point of the US epidemic may not come in the coming year.
Looking back at several stages of the US epidemic resistance, the biggest impression from the outside world is that the United States should carry out "negative anti-epidemic" to the end.
When the virus broke out in China and other places, the Trump administration watched the fire from the other side and spoke coldly; when the virus raged in the United States, the Trump administration denied that the epidemic was serious and dumped China, WHO, Democrats; when the epidemic improved, The Trump administration can’t wait to restart the economy and leave the epidemic behind; when the recent epidemic rebounded, they prepared a new set of rhetoric-"The death rate of the new coronavirus is very low" "99% of the cases are completely absent Harm""to coexist with viruses".
Observers pointed out that this latest set of "pretty" rhetoric shows that the White House team is ready to put the anti-epidemic incident on hold and turn to the "abandoned treatment" route. If the previous anti-epidemic actions of the United States were not effective, they still tried their best to look after them. Then, the White House team was reluctant to pretend even the basic appearance. This is not only a blind eye to the "reality of the American people who are losing their lives", but will also bring a very bad head to other countries in the world. If some countries with severe epidemics also begin to follow the example of the United States, the line of defense against human epidemics may collapse A thousand miles.
The third is to use "American priority" to hoard medicines and monopolize vaccines, dragging humans to overcome the virus.
Recently, the United States staged a robbery show around the antiviral drug Radecive, triggering a collective vomiting by the international community.
The American pharmaceutical company Gilead has a patent for Redcive. If other countries want to buy, they must apply to the company for queuing. Gilead released the pricing of the drug on June 29. The British "Guardian" reported on June 30 that the US government has preemptively placed an order to purchase more than 500,000 doses of ridcive, meaning that Gilead's entire July production capacity and 90% of its production capacity in August and September were sold by the United States. Out of stock. This means that if patients in other countries want to use Radecivir in the near future, hope is slim.
Andrew Hill, senior visiting researcher in the Department of Pharmacology at the University of Liverpool, said that Gilead had conducted clinical trials in the UK, and that when British patients took the risk to participate in the trial, only Americans could benefit from the study. This is "right Questioning the most basic moral standards". The British Secretary of Commerce said that the government and companies should cooperate to find a cure for new coronary pneumonia. This kind of US behavior will only undermine all strategies.
It is a common practice in the United States to hoard materials — masks, medicines, and vaccines under the banner of “America First”. In March this year, the United States attempted to buy the exclusive right to use a German biotechnology company to develop vaccines, which was severely criticized by German political circles. In May, executives of the French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi said that the US government could give priority to the vaccines developed by the company. French public opinion was in an uproar, and Sanofi changed its position under the pressure of public opinion.
While overbearing resources, the United States has repeatedly absented in the anti-epidemic activities organized by the international community. The United States has publicly refused to participate in the International Anti-epidemic Fundraising Video Summit hosted by the European Union and the Vaccine Summit hosted by the United Kingdom in early June. An interview with the British "Guardian" pointed out that the practice of self-reliance by the United States will bring tension, uncertainty and insecurity to the global response to the epidemic.
US Consumer News and Business Channel reported on June 29 that a survey commissioned by the European Commission on External Relations showed that Europeans no longer trust the United States under Trump’s leadership, and their views on the United States “did worse during the New Crown Crisis. "France and Germany are particularly obvious. This also confirms from one side that European allies are increasingly aware of the selfishness and hypocrisy of "America First" and the role of "lagging behind" in this human-virus battle. (Finish)