There is news today that is bad news for the whole world, and the United States has rarely "moved".
According to a number of foreign media reports, on November 26, local time, the governor of New York State kathy Hohel declared that the state entered a "state of disaster emergency" for the epidemic. The reason is not only the sharp rebound in the region, but also the concern about the mutant strain, Omicron.
The new variant discovered by WHO in South Africa is great bad news for any country or region in the world.
The currently known variant strain, Omicron, has three major characteristics: the first is that it is more contagious than the Delta virus; the second is that it can bypass part of the immune system; and the third is that it may weaken the effect of the vaccine.
Many media and medical experts have dismissed Omicron as the worst mutant virus to date, with travel bans issued in the United States, Europe, Russia, and the United Kingdom. At the same time, due to the emergence of mutated strains, the global stock market is also suffering a heavy blow.
At the same time, we should also recognize that it is too early to characterize Omicron, which may require a more scientific and systematic set of arguments to think about this matter.
What is worth thinking about now is the American attitude, because this time they are finally in a hurry.
In the first half of this year, in addition to the more severe situation outside India and its surrounding areas, the global epidemic situation was constantly developing in a controllable direction. This is mainly due to the universal vaccination of vaccines, and Western governments seem to have all their hopes on vaccines, thus relaxing various policies to prevent epidemics.
We have an old saying that "people are not as good as heaven", and this sentence is fully applicable to the current anti-epidemic work.
The rate of mutation of the strain is unexpected, and all vaccines can only be developed based on factors within the known range, and we cannot make accurate predictions. Therefore, the epidemic crisis can only be resolved as soon as possible by promoting universal vaccination of vaccines while minimizing the number of infections.
At the same time, Americans should also think about whether there is a responsibility for the United States behind the discovery of a new mutant strain in South Africa this time.
A few months ago, Biden announced that the United States had a whole set of plans to aid the world with vaccines, but progress has been slow. The United Nations and the WHO have also proposed more than once that they hope that many developed countries, such as the United States, can delay the promotion of domestic reinforcement needles and give priority to third world countries as much as possible.
However, the United States has turned a deaf ear to this, and Biden is eager to push forward in the American academic circles before it is fully demonstrated whether the reinforcement needle is healthy enough. The Miserliness of the United States towards the world has, to a certain extent, reversed the epidemic control in the United States.
At present, Omicron has not been confirmed to spread widely within the United States, but the situation in the United States is still not optimistic.
Regardless of how many confirmed cases and how many deaths are increasing in the United States every day, the chaos of society alone has highlighted the current situation that the United States is unable to manage society. At the same time, in the context of the "double festival", the US supply chain crisis is far from seeing the dawn of solution.
In the current situation of frequent shootings, high inflation, severe epidemics and political divisions, what is Biden busy with?
According to the Observer Network, on November 26, local time, US President Biden called on other WHO member states to give up the protection of vaccine intellectual property rights so that the current crisis can be resolved.
Nor was this a temporary intention on Biden's part, as he said a few months ago, but it caused strong opposition from domestic pharmaceutical giants in the United States.
The opposition of American pharmaceutical capital naturally has their high-sounding reasons, but there is naturally a huge interest cake behind it.
According to the "People's Vaccine Alliance" organization report, Pfizer, Modena and other US pharmaceutical giants have a total of $34 billion in pre-tax profits on vaccines, and a considerable amount of $93.5 million per day. The main exporters of these companies are also developed countries, and middle- and low-income countries face almost no vaccine availability.
Now in addition to the racial movement, there is also a "coffin-carrying parade" on the streets of the United States, calling on pharmaceutical companies to give up the protection of intellectual property rights as soon as possible.
In fact, the epidemic is once again facing loss of control, which is by no means good news for Biden.
The reason why Biden was able to enter the White House in the first place was inseparable from his active epidemic prevention measures. But for nearly a year, the epidemic situation in the United States has not received any substantial improvement, can Biden's approval rate not fall?
All in all, the fact that the United States has begun to tighten its epidemic prevention measures now shows that they are really "afraid". Now the United States is somewhat vulnerable in the face of the unknown epidemic. If a new outbreak sweeps through the United States again and causes widespread infection and death, Then Biden is really hanging.
American politicians are consolidating their rule, and pharmaceutical capital is reluctant to give up human blood steamed buns. The disaster emergency that New York has entered is probably not only because of the epidemic, but also because of the structural problems of the United States. It can be seen from this that although countries take different measures according to their national conditions, can these measures be adjusted in a timely manner, is not exactly the function that a country should perform?