China Net Commentator Huazhang
Data updated by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that the number of cases of monkeypox virus infection in the United States has reached nearly 25,000, ranking first in the world. With the world's most advanced medical technology, the United States has become the world's largest spreader of the new crown pneumonia epidemic and monkeypox epidemic and the failed country in the fight against the epidemic. It makes people ask: Why does the "American human rights" that it repeatedly advocates cannot protect the minimum right to life and health of the American people?
If American politicians can also use "virus is a new thing" to give their chaotic epidemic prevention and control as an excuse, then all quibbling in the monkeypox epidemic will be pale and powerless. It is reported that the monkeypox virus was discovered as early as 1958 and spread to humans in 1970. In 2003, a monkeypox epidemic broke out in the United States. It can be said that no country in the world "knows better how to prevent monkeypox " than the United States.
However, the monkeypox epidemic still broke out in the United States and spread rapidly. Starting from the Massachusetts Public Health Department's first confirmed case of monkeypox on May 18, to the first confirmed case of monkeypox infection on Wyoming on August 22, in three months, all 50 states in the United States "fall", with the number of confirmed cases of monkeypox exceeding 15,000, ranking first in the world. In just one month after that, the number of monkeypox cases in the United States increased by another 10,000. According to the New York Times , the total number of monkeypox cases in the United States has exceeded one third of the global number of cases. This scene naturally reminds people of the US government's slowness and incompetence in the prevention and control of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. " Washington Post " pointed out incisively that "the response to monkeypox will be another failure in the public health field in the United States." CNN lamented: "We are repeating the mistakes when the new coronavirus began to spread."
says that people cannot fall twice in the same place, but the US government has repeatedly made the same mistakes in epidemic prevention and control. Whether it is to deal with the new crown pneumonia epidemic or the monkeypox epidemic, the United States has obviously insufficient medical supplies: after the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic across the United States, from first aid equipment such as ventilators to medical consumables such as disinfectants, masks, and testing kits, the United States lacks everything. This made him very worried, and he also shouted that "the supply chain of strategic materials such as medical care must be in his own hands." In the face of the familiar monkeypox virus, the problem of out-of-stock in the United States is still prominent. The US "Politics" quoted sources as saying that the US government should have reserved about 120 million doses of monkeypox vaccine, but only 20 million doses were reserved before 2019. The New York Times revealed that at the beginning of the monkeypox epidemic, the United States even "only 2,400 doses of vaccines are available."
The United States also has a problem of too slow detection speed when responding to these two epidemics. The US "Politus" once reported that six months after the COVID-19 epidemic, the United States still cannot solve the testing problem. Some Americans once complained that they had tested the new coronavirus and waited for several days before the results were released. The inefficiency of the detection work has led to the inability of the United States to detect patients in time and to track the trajectory of the virus. A similar scene has appeared again: Former U.S. Food and Drug Administration director Gottlieb said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other health officials have been reluctant to expand the scope of monkeypox virus testing and require testers to meet a range of conditions. It was not until late June that the U.S. government authorized commercial laboratories to join the test, and spent more than a month increasing the weekly test capacity from thousands to tens of thousands. As a result, the monkeypox epidemic peaked in August, but the US government was powerless.
The problem of mismatch and confusion in the allocation of medical supplies including vaccines in the United States has also reappeared, resulting in no medicine available for patients who are vaccinated and taking medication. At the same time, a large number of vaccines and medical supplies are wasted due to expire or damage.
In addition, in the monkeypox epidemic, the American people of color once again became the "most injured" group. Data released by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show that Latinos and Africans, who account for about 30% of the total U.S. population, account for more than 60% of the confirmed cases of monkeypox in the United States, but only 10% of the monkeypox vaccines are allocated to vaccination for Africans, who account for about 33% of the confirmed cases in the United States.Greg Gonsavus, a Yale School of Public Health, criticized sharply that the United States is "establishing a caste system" when it comes to deciding "who can get the needs to deal with monkeypox." In fact, during the COVID-19 epidemic, the same problem of systemic racial discrimination has existed: Hispanics and African Americans are about three times more likely to be infected with the new coronavirus than whites, and the death rate after infection is about two times that of whites. American Latino , African-American and Indigenous children are 1.8 times, 2.4 times and 4.5 times the likelihood of becoming orphans due to the COVID-19 epidemic is 1.8 times, 2.4 times and 4.5 times the likelihood of becoming an orphans in American white children is 1.8 times, 2.4 times and 4.5 times the likelihood of becoming an orphan due to the COVID-19 epidemic.
Whether it is the monkeypox epidemic or the new crown pneumonia epidemic, before the public health emergency, the " scanner ", the U.S. government's governance capabilities such as insufficient supply of materials, confusing allocation, lagging testing, and the discrimination that ethnic minorities are treated differently were clearly presented to the world. In the final analysis, these problems are all because American politicians have always talked about " people are born equal to ", but they turn a blind eye to the long-standing problems in their country's medical and health systems, and put the most basic right to health and life of their people behind their minds, just seeking political self-interest.
A country that allows governments at all levels to control the disability, allows people from their own countries to get sick and die during the epidemic, but is keen on publishing the so-called "national human rights report", pointing fingers and smearing the human rights of other countries, obviously has no right to act as a "human rights teacher" in countries around the world. I would like to advise American politicians to put away their "good teacher" face, spend more time caring about the vital interests of the American public, and do more practical things for domestic equal rights work.
