US President Joe Biden recently said in a program that the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States is "over". As soon as this statement was made, the United States immediately exploded - the media accused it of being "a reckless and dangerous misleading". Experts also said frankly that "we have not reached the level of coexistence with viruses", and some people even went to the White House to protest. Finally, the White House had to urgently "extinguish the fire" for the President's remarks, saying that the government's anti epidemic policy had not changed.
How is the COVID-19 epidemic in the United States? In terms of data, more than 1 million people have died. At present, there are about 55000 new infections and nearly 400 deaths per day. According to the report of the New York Times on September 19, local time, Dr. Osterholm, an infectious disease expert at the University of Minnesota in the United States, pointed out that COVID-19 is still the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. In the past 28 days, the authorities have received 2 million case reports, and "the situation of missing reports is very serious". In addition, data from the US Centers for Disease Control and prevention show that 13.3% of all COVID-19-19 patients in the United States still have symptoms one month after infection; Among the hospitalized COVID-19-19 patients, more than 30% still have symptoms six months after infection. How could such a situation become "the end of the epidemic" in Biden's eyes?
Behind the president's astonishing remarks is a cold political calculation. Biden has always tried to label himself as "the president who led the United States out of the epidemic". His team advisers even compared him to Roosevelt, saying that "he will lead the United States out of the COVID-19-19 crisis and revitalize the economy". On the surface, the Biden government is indeed more active than the previous government in fighting the epidemic, which can be hampered by the shortcomings of the American political system. Most of the goals, slogans and commitments fail, and the infection and death curve has not changed.
With the mid-term election coming, the Biden government announced that it would urge Americans to inject a fourth booster needle before winter. However, before the plan was implemented, the President announced impatiently that "the victory they planned" had been achieved.
In reality, Biden's remarks are likely to disrupt the existing plans of his team. It has been difficult for the American society to reach consensus on how to fight the epidemic. Opinions on maintaining social distance, wearing masks, vaccinating and other aspects are extremely diverse. The "open mouth" of the upper class will undoubtedly aggravate the differentiation of cognition and position. For example, Biden has complained for two years that this is a "pandemic of the unvaccinated", but as a scholar at Columbia University said, "this time he just did the worst thing that could possibly reduce the vaccination rate". The Washington Post pointed out that Biden's remarks caught senior government officials off guard. Many anonymous officials pointed out that the matter would make it more difficult to lobby Congress to spend billions of dollars on vaccines. As a result, the implementation variables of the new vaccination plan have risen sharply, and the original bonus items of the election are likely to become the minus items, which seems to be "digging in the wall".
Further, such an urgent statement is somewhat familiar. When he was in office, trump repeatedly downplayed the epidemic situation, propagandizing that "COVID-19 is a major flu", "COVID-19 can be cured by injection of disinfectant" and "it's OK not to wear a mask", as if "he knows COVID-19 best". Now, when we arrive at Biden, we still have to change the soup. It can be seen that under the American politics of giving priority to politics, putting votes first, and focusing on capital, people's livelihood and science should always be on the sidelines.
Whether the epidemic is over or not depends on what the President of the United States says and how to "lead the people out of the epidemic". The church bell is covered up by the noise of the election. This is the real "American tragedy".