Source: People's Daily Overseas Edition
Recently, the United States has taken the issue of tracing the origin of the new crown virus as a new "trick" against China, and has been so busy that it has no time to pay attention to the cries of domestic scientists and the growing number of infections and deaths among its own people.
On August 2, McCall, the chief Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Relations Committee, released the so-called "New Coronavirus Traceability Report", saying that there is "sufficient evidence" that the new crown virus leaked from the Wuhan Institute of Virology before September 2019, which conducts "virus gain" research funded by the Chinese and American governments and under the guidance of US experts. But to date, he has not released so-called "sufficient evidence."
An American politician with no scientific research experience completed a so-called "traceability report" with no evidence at all in a very short period of time, trying to overturn the scientific conclusions of the China-WHO joint study on the traceability of the new crown virus. The speed of its speed has surprised countless scientists who are diligently engaged in the study of virus traceability.
The emergence of anti-science politicians is not yet the minimum limit for the United States. In order to hype up the "Chinese laboratory leak theory", the US government even let the domestic intelligence agencies that are accustomed to planting stolen goods also wear the battle. In April, the top U.S. intelligence agency agreed with the scientific consensus that the coronavirus is not man-made or genetically modified, Reuters reported. This caused displeasure among the top level of the US government, and the White House immediately ordered the US intelligence agencies to speed up the trace of the source of the virus and hand over the report within 90 days. The spearhead could not be more obvious.
The issue of traceability of the new crown virus is a serious scientific issue, and many American scientists have repeatedly called for a return to the spirit of science and the tracing of the new crown virus by scientists. Weiss, a virology expert at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in the United States, recently wrote an article pointing out that the "laboratory leak theory" lacks evidence, and most scientists believe that the new crown virus originates from nature and is transmitted from animals to humans. Lacanillo, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Columbia University, said in an interview with the media that the US government has put a political color on the issue of virus traceability and has not considered science at all. The official website of Lancet magazine recently released a joint statement signed by 24 internationally renowned medical experts, including American scientists, emphasizing that "science, not speculation, is the key to finding the transmission path of the new crown virus."
However, the U.S. government has turned a deaf ear to this and has launched a silence campaign against scientists that it is very good at. The famous virologist and who is a member of the WHO international expert group, Dasak, was stopped from funding by the US government for refuting conspiracy theories related to the new crown virus, and was also threatened by the Republican congressman McCall to issue a subpoena to the House of Representatives; rasmussen, an American virologist, was subjected to online violence, harassment and physical threats for publicly opposing the "laboratory leak" conspiracy theory; Anderson, an Australian scientist who worked at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and refuted the "laboratory leak theory" with his own experience, was frequently attacked by extremists in the United States , had to call the police for help. Nobel prize winner and Australian immunologist Doherty said that as long as the scientists' remarks contradict the tone of conspiracy theories, they will be labeled "ultra-left" by the United States and even slandered.
The U.S. government is busy with "traceability terrorism" and has long forgotten that there are still 35.5 million confirmed cases and more than 610,000 deaths in the country, and it does not care that these numbers are still rising rapidly. Due to the lack of respect for scientific common sense and the emphasis on medical experience, there has been no consensus on epidemic prevention measures in the United States so far, and the progress of vaccination work has been slow. Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said a few days ago that about 93 million people in the United States who are eligible for the new crown vaccine have not been vaccinated. As the spread of the mutated virus accelerates, these people may become a mass "vulnerable group.".
On the one hand, there is a feverish tracing politicization movement, and on the other hand, there is a domestic anti-epidemic work of chicken feathers, and the two heavens of ice and fire are double. This wave of operations by the US government reminds the world that the extinction of conscience and the recklessness of human life are the true face of "American-style democracy."
Effective anti-epidemic is inseparable from respect for science and conscience for the people. The determination and achievements of the Chinese government in fighting the epidemic are obvious to the international community, and even the US and Western media have to admit that the international scientific community has frequently praised it. According to the Wall Street Journal website in the United States, after the outbreak of the epidemic, china's health department resolutely adopted quarantine measures to digitally track and conduct large-scale testing of potential virus carriers, effectively curbing the epidemic. The Lancet published an editorial pointing out that China's strong public health measures have successfully avoided a large number of infections and deaths, and China's anti-epidemic experience is worth learning from all countries.
The political manipulation of the US Government, which has lost its scientific spirit, has long since lost its popular will. On August 2, more than 300 political parties, social organizations and think tanks in more than 100 countries and regions submitted a Joint Statement to the WHO Secretariat, calling on WHO to objectively and impartially carry out global research on the traceability of the new crown virus and resolutely oppose the politicization of the traceability issue.
Political manipulation that defies science cannot save the United States, which is deep in the whirlpool of the epidemic. (Lin Zihan)
People's Daily Overseas Edition ( 2021-08-10 Edition 10)