The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the United States is enormous, to what extent? As big as the US government shouting and shouting to bring manufacturing back to the United States, in the end most of the anti-epidemic materials have to be imported from China.
According to data released by our Ministry of Foreign Affairs at the beginning of last year, from March 1, 2020 to February 28, 2021, the United States imported about 43.85 billion masks, about 1.19 billion pairs of surgical gloves, about 950 million sets of protective clothing, about 54.03 million pairs of goggles and 17,585 ventilators from China.
The amount of imports for the whole year of 2021 can only increase and will not decrease.
Because the epidemic in the United States has also been spreading in 2021. Although a large number of Americans are resisting wearing masks, masks are "fast moving consumer goods" after all, especially the consumption of disposable medical masks is still huge.
Of course, the United States has the strength to produce masks, but whether it is a disposable mask or a more advanced mask, its cost is also far from China's products. Therefore, the vast majority of domestic consumption in the United States is masks made in China.
More advanced masks refer to N95 masks under American standards and KN95 masks under Chinese standards. Among them, N95 refers to masks that meet the "N95" rating of air filtration stipulated by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and can block 95% of non-oily particles with a diameter of 0.3 microns or more. The KN95 mask is the mask standard defined in the Chinese national standard GB2626-2019.
What is particularly interesting is that in the early days of the 2020 outbreak of the new crown epidemic, the United States refused to import Chinese standard KN95 masks from China due to political factors, but in April of that year, because the epidemic in the United States was very serious, the United States medical care and the public seriously lacked masks, they were forced to give Chinese companies an emergency authorization and began to import a large number of masks from China.
At that time, the US government was still playing a trick and pit some Chinese companies. And in the US CDC's mask wearing guidelines, there is never a instruction for wearing KN95 masks in China.
However, on January 14, local time in the United States, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suddenly updated the mask guidelines, adding a note about KN95 masks, saying that people choose to wear KN95 masks "have a better protective effect".
Interestingly, however, from the beginning of the epidemic in 2020 to 2022, Americans have been arguing about whether to wear masks. Among them, the U.S. government and even the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have always been unclear.
On February 28 and March 4, 2020, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) claimed that ordinary Americans do not need to wear masks; on March 12, some schools in the United States banned students from wearing masks; on March 31, CDC began to consider whether to recommend people to wear masks; on April 1, the FDA refused to approve Chinese standard KN95 masks; on April 3, CDC recommended that people voluntarily wear non-medical masks; on April 4, the FDA allowed US medical institutions to use Chinese KN95 masks; april 5, Fouchi, the chief epidemic prevention expert in the United States, does not wear masks; on June 17, Fauci said that he did not need to wear masks at the beginning because he was afraid that he would not be able to buy masks for doctors; on September 17, CDC said that wearing masks was more useful than vaccines; on May 16, 2021, CDC said that people who had been vaccinated did not wear masks; on July 28, CDC changed to say that people who had been vaccinated should also wear masks indoors; on January 12, 2022, CDC changed its name to consider recommending that the public wear N95 or KN95 masks.
For those anti-China politicians, however, the use of Made in China is intolerable to them.
No, anti-China politicians have actually turned against Pelosi, the most thoroughly anti-China speaker of the US Congress.
The reason for this is actually because of masks.
Last week, doctors in congress distributed a batch of masks to four hundred U.S. lawmakers, not N95 masks, but KN95 masks, which are based on Chinese standards.
Importantly, in addition to the brand and KN95 words printed on the front of these KN95 masks, they also bear the eye-catching words "MADE IN CHINA" (Made in China).
This made the anti-China lawmakers angry, or a little hysterical, and attacked Pelosi's "communists."
For example, Republican Rep. Greg Murphy from North Carolina, while slandering the new crown virus as "coming from China", attacked The Democratic House Speaker Pelosi, saying that she was "willing to publicly support a Chinese manufacturer, send taxpayer money overseas in front of Congress, and further publicize our dependence on China." ”
Yes, just because the lawmakers were given Chinese standard KN95 masks made in China, the extreme anti-China politician Pelosi actually became a "general communist".
In fact, everyone on earth knows that this House Speaker of the United States, Pelosi, is an old, extreme anti-China politician.
We Chinese most familiar with what she calls "beautiful landscape"!
This is American politics, this is American politicians, this is the biggest politics of the United States!
No matter how anti-China you are, no matter how extreme your anti-China is, as long as you can relate to China, even if it is the slightest relationship, you can immediately be put on the hat of "common communism."
If it is said that the extreme anti-China politician Pelosi is "all-in-one," then there should be no one in the US government and US political circles who are not "communist."
However, the most embarrassing thing is that, as mentioned at the beginning of this article, the CDC of the United States updated the mask instructions on the same day, suggesting that ordinary Americans wear KN95 masks made in China and based on Chinese standards, and saying that the effect is better.
So, according to the logic of these anti-China lawmakers in the United States, is the US CDC also "common"?
In addition, according to the latest news, the US military has just signed a contract with a Chinese company to import $1.275 billion (including freight) COVID-19 test kits from China.
In the same way, according to the logic of these anti-China politicians in the United States, the US military seems to be "common communism," and it is still very serious.
These politicians in the United States are now thinking not about how to defeat the epidemic, but how to put the hat of "common communism" on the other side.
Such an ugly and evil America, if it does not decline, there is no reason.