Recently, the famous Forbes magazine headlined "This is what 1 million deaths from the new crown in the United States look like", pointing out that the new crown pneumonia has become the third leading cause of death in American society, resulting in nearly 3 times the number of deaths from influenza in the past 10 years, more than the number of deaths caused by HIV in the past 40 years combined, and nearly twice the number of deaths in the United States in the two world wars. In this sense, the global outbreak of COVID-19, in a sense, is the "Third World War", which directly threatens the survival of people in all countries and social stability, and poses a huge challenge to the mobilization ability of national and regional governments. Looking back at this war, "strong" such as the United States has actually been defeated.
Forbes magazine pointed out that the United States accounts for 16% of COVID-19 deaths with 4% of the world's population, far exceeding the official statistics of other countries and regions. The U.S. economy is well-founded and the specific data are good, and more countries and economies will only be much lower than they actually are due to lack of monitoring capabilities, poor record keeping, and politically motivated hopes to reduce the number of epidemics. Therefore, the real impact of the global epidemic is probably at least doubled.
The number of COVID-19 deaths in the United States is more than one million, and this number is likely to be an underestimate. A large number of deaths caused by the new crown pneumonia virus are not counted, because the symptoms often appear months after infection, or complications caused by new crown pneumonia, or other underlying diseases, but because of the run in medical resources caused by the epidemic, it is impossible to receive treatment in time. And this situation is exacerbated by the disunity and fragmentation of health care systems and reporting standards in the U.S. states and jurisdictions. So according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about 1.1 million Americans "died extra" during the coronavirus pandemic, which is the difference from the expected number of deaths. How much of this may be caused by the new crown epidemic, you can understand for yourself.
American values claim that "everyone is equal," but the reality is that there are always people who can be "more equal." The population of COVID-19 deaths is unevenly distributed, with the majority of deaths occurring among the elderly, African-Americans, Native Americans and Latinos. The mortality rate in these groups is much higher than that of whites. Life expectancy in the United States fell by more than two years during the pandemic, the biggest drop since World War II. And this trend continues, with the latest U.S. life expectancy data initially showing another 0.4 years of decline. At the same time, about 200,000 children have lost their parents and become "orphans" due to the epidemic, and 50,000 children have lost their grandparents.
Under the premise that the new crown pandemic is as big as a rising tide, the US political circles have always been eager to turn this page. In March, the White House announced that the pandemic had entered a "new moment" in which restrictions on epidemic prevention could be lifted and indoor gatherings in government work resumed to show a "normal state." On the other hand, the US government would rather cut epidemic prevention funds than provide military aid to Ukraine. The White House listed $82 billion in its latest federal budget request, less than one-tenth of the military budget. Even so, caught in a bipartisan stalemate, the money remains stuck in Congress.
The "COVID-19 war" exposed America's logistical inadequacies, moral deficiencies, and deep-rooted Political, Economic, and Social Ills of the United States. Because of the failed leadership and policies of the U.S. government, this war will cast a painful chapter in history and in the memory of hundreds of millions of Americans.
Finally, it can be said that in this war, the US government allowed the new crown virus to slaughter more than 1 million American people and create 200,000 "new crown orphans", which is simply one of the most serious humanitarian crises encountered in human history. Is the U.S. government allowing the coronavirus to "accurately torture" the poor, sick, and elderly in the United States is not like the massacre of specific peoples, races, and people by Nazi fascism, and what is the difference between the two?