The U.S. is on track to have more than a million confirmed COVID 19 cases by Tuesday, becoming the only country in the world with more than a million confirmed cases. That is the equivalent of five confirmed cases in Italy and more than 56,000 cumulative deaths in the United States. The previous day, COVID 19 had infected more than 3 million people worldwide, or 1 in 3 americans. The us government has failed its own people and the world.
There are more than 300 million people in the United States, and 1 million people are infected with COVID 19. What is the concept? That is to say, if the same rate of infection were used, 1.4 billion Chinese would have infected more than 4 million people! I am afraid that we almost infected more than 80,000 people, but to increase the number of 50 times! All of China's provinces would have to have more severe outbreaks than hubei to reach that number. It is entirely possible that we would have been caught up in such a humanitarian disaster, since China's overall level of medical care is not as good as that of the United States.
If there were a national epidemic and mass death in China today like the United States, the people would never allow it. But America has not had a "big mess" until now. It is not that americans are really content to accept COVID 19's torture. If it can be summed up in one sentence, the truth is more likely to be: grief for the dead.
Most americans have watched the outbreak spread, politicians have blamed each other, and some have asked to return to work despite the outbreak. When their social organization suddenly turned to fighting the epidemic, it was not easy. Politicians were busy with elections, and it was not uncommon for various forces to converge. Even if the social forces wanted to promote the country to fight the epidemic more actively, there was no way to push things forward.
So for these people, can only recognize, each care for each, conditional pay more attention not to be infected, the condition can only take the low probability of death once infected as their greatest amulet.
The United States government is supposed to do at least three things in order to get the country into this state. The second is to sum up the lessons, so that the next hard - core anti - epidemic, as far as possible to reduce the number of people infected and casualties; Third, we need to promote international cooperation to create conditions for the worldwide elimination of novel coronavirus, because it is impossible to achieve final victory in one country.
But the United States government has not done any of these three, and the opposition forces in the United States have not cooperated with the federal government to unite the American society in this special time. Instead, they have taken aim at the general election, and both have put the interests of the campaign ahead of the interests of the whole country in fighting the epidemic. I can't help but say that this is a tragedy for the American people.
American democratic politics has become polarized, and it is unable to show the true responsibility of national governing power and the unity of American society at this important historical juncture. That country is fighting a war with great losses and little to win back. The number of infected people has reached the threshold of over one million, but the fight against the epidemic in the United States is still not organized, the prevention and control system construction is hardly, what the future will be highly uncertain.
It can only help the federal government and the republican party to divert public attention and gain some election benefits, but it does nothing to improve the anti-epidemic situation in the United States, nor does it help the whole society to reflect. This is a symptom of political weakness in the United States.
One million infections and 56,000 deaths are certainly not near the U.S. outbreak limit. The American people, especially the poor, are still under a severe threat from a novel coronavirus. Rich americans are better off. They can stay at home and get better care if they are infected. The poor, who have to continue to hunt for food, are much more likely to get sick and die.
A superpower should not be leading the way in this grim epidemic. Wake up, America.
