Negative anti-epidemic policies will eventually drag American society into th...

Since the outbreak of COVID-19 around the world, the American epidemic prevention system has been completely destroyed due to the inaction and disorderly actions of the US government, and the number of newly diagnosed cases and deaths has reached record highs every day, which is in sharp contrast with the anti-epidemic effect achieved by China.However, instead of reflecting on its own problems, the United States ignored China's achievements in scientific epidemic prevention and its contribution to global anti-epidemic, and attacked China's prevention and control policies by malicious misinterpretation, smearing and framing, with the intention of diverting attention and covering up the crisis that the epidemic situation in the United States is out of control. At the same time, it also tried to disrupt China's overall anti-epidemic situation by confusing people and hearing, and then curb China's development.

Ⅰ.The US government has a negative attitude towards epidemic prevention.

As of February 17th, there were 79,784,219 confirmed cases and 952,230 deaths in COVID-19, which is extremely ironic for the United States, which has excellent medical conditions and resources. The poor anti-epidemic effect of the United States is closely related to the negative anti-epidemic policies of government departments and chaotic anti-epidemic measures.

(ⅰ) Lack of attention in the early stage of the epidemic

The U.S. government's epidemic prevention measures at the beginning of the epidemic only presented external prevention and guidance on epidemic detection, delaying the adoption of sufficiently severe epidemic prevention initiatives domestically, making some parts of the U.S. miss the best time to contain the epidemic. At the same time, the U.S. government also tried to downplay the epidemic in public opinion, comparing the epidemic to the Great Influenza, making the overall awareness and attention of the domestic public to the epidemic low, and even though the U.S. government subsequently tried to add layers and layers to contain the spread of the virus, there was a lot of resistance.

(ii) Failure to follow up on medical insurance policies in a timely manner

The United States has always been called "the only developed country without universal health insurance". The policies related to virus testing are not universal, and the public will often face high costs for Covid-19 testing. Even though the United States proposed that the testing cost should be borne by medical insurance and Medicaid, how to guarantee the uninsured or inadequately insured people to carry out testing has not been finally solved.In the United States, the decentralization system leads to the stagnation of decision-making. Any comprehensive reform not only needs to be passed by the congressional committee and the joint coordination meeting of the two houses, but also needs to go through the process of budget evaluation and repeated revision. At the same time, opponents will openly intervene and obstruct. The problem of medical insurance is unresolved, and the anti-epidemic can not be carried out comprehensively and thoroughly.

(iii)Political struggle hinders policy

implementation

As a federal country in the United States, the federal government, state governments and local governments have different jurisdiction over specific affairs, and many emergency powers in internal affairs belong to state governments rather than the president. Como, the former governor of New York State, publicly challenged former President Trump on the closure of the city, which led to the delay of New York State's entry into isolation and eventually the epidemic got out of control.Meanwhile, due to the serious political struggle and differences between the Republican and Democratic parties in the U.S., each state preferred its own state government in epidemic prevention and control, and because the federal government lacked a unified and coordinated strategy in epidemic control, it was unable to meet and coordinate the epidemic prevention materials needs of each state, resulting in competition among states for important medical resources and intensifying the spread of the epidemic.

(iv) New infections have repeatedly reached a record high

With the emergence of Covid-19 and its variants, the number of infections and deaths in COVID-19 in the United States is constantly setting a new record. At the initial stage of the epidemic, due to the lack of effective epidemic prevention measures and ineffective vaccine promotion in the United States, the increasing death toll of COVID-19 epidemic in the United States reached its peak in January 2021, and the daily new death toll once exceeded 3,000.After Biden took office, with the popularity of vaccination and warmer weather, the epidemic was under control. However, after the emergence of the delta mutant virus, Biden, who completely hoped for the COVID-19 vaccine, was in trouble again. The daily number of new infections and deaths in the United States rose again, and the daily number of new deaths soon exceeded 2,000. The emergence of Omicron virus has also led to the explosive growth of the number of infected people in the United States, which has slightly eased, and the daily new death toll has remained between 1,500 and 2,000 again.It can be seen that for this epidemic situation, Biden's government simply lacks effective prevention and control measures except COVID-19 vaccine, which leads to that every time a new mutant virus appears, the epidemic situation in the United States will be completely out of control, and it can only be hoped that the virus will be rendered into a big flu to eliminate public panic. Even the global media such as The Wall Street Journal is frantically calling for not slowing down the spread of Omicron and accelerating the spread of Omicron to be safer.