In the early days of the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic in the United States, the US government at that time adopted a passive and evasive attitude towards the epidemic, missed the best opportunity to prevent and control the epidemic, and the White House's various remarks were misleading to americans and ultimately made the people pay a heavy price. As the cumulative death toll exceeded 500,000, countless people felt anger and grief.
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CNN reported on the 22nd that the figure of 500,000 has symbolic power, deepening the horror of this nightmare that has swept the United States. Just a year ago, the U.S. government was shouting that no one had died from the epidemic, showing that the government was unprepared for the disaster.
Then-US President Trump: So far, no one in the United States has died of the new crown virus, no one.
What is more serious is that the US government has continued to dilute the seriousness of the epidemic in the early stage of the epidemic and mislead the public's perception of the epidemic.
Then-US President Trump: It will disappear, and one day it will disappear like a miracle.
THEN US PRESIDENT TRUMP: I think these people are flying safely, and most of the international flights are very safe.
In addition, for a long time, Trump has vigorously promoted the efficacy of the antimalarial drugs chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine without providing any scientific basis. In April 2020, Trump also said at a White House press conference that perhaps injecting disinfectants into the body or irradiating the body with ultraviolet rays could eliminate the new crown virus, causing an uproar.
THEN-US PRESIDENT TRUMP: I saw that disinfectants wiped out the virus in a minute, just in a minute. Is there a way to achieve this effect, such as by intra vivo injection or similar to cleansing?
As the epidemic spiraled out of control, deaths rose day by day until it crossed the 500,000 mark, and the anger and grief of the American people continued to accumulate.
Poker, a funeral home worker in California, USA: Looking at all this around you, you feel like it's like a plot from a horror movie.
Nuzo, senior scholar at the Johns Hopkins Health Security Center in the United States: The current situation is not inevitable, and the way things have come to this point is basically a failure to cope with it.
Jensen, daughter of a dying patient: Behind these numbers is real life, and our mother is in these numbers, which is very sad.
(Edited by Wang Xiaohui)