Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the United States has been deeply mired in the epidemic and has continued to face pressure to rebound. The so-called "superpower" has become "the world's first failed country in the fight against the epidemic." Why has the United States been unable to escape the vicious circle of repeated epidemics?
"Politicizing the epidemic is the most direct cause. Both Republicans and Democrats use the epidemic as a'political card' to play, trying to make a fuss about the epidemic to increase their support rate in the election and gain more political benefits. Although the current government It claims to put people’s lives first, but the actual implementation of epidemic prevention measures is not strict. It is more about how to recover the economy as soon as possible to consolidate voter support. The Republican Party also spares no effort to tie the epidemic to the current government, as long as it is The Republican-led states do not actively cooperate with the epidemic prevention orders issued by the current government." Zhang Tengjun said.
The latest data from Gallup Consulting in the United States shows that 92% of people in Democratic-led states have completed at least one dose of the new crown vaccine, while in Republican-led states, only 56% have completed one dose. Vaccination has caused completely different epidemic situations across the United States. At present, almost all states in the United States with the highest rates of infection, hospitalization, and death rates of new coronary pneumonia are Republican-led states, which is in contrast to the situation where the epidemic situation in the states led by the Democratic Party has slowed down slightly.
Zhao Kejin believes that repeated outbreaks in the United States have also exposed the common problem of the so-called "open society", that is, the inability to truly guarantee the safety of the people. "In the so-called'open society', whenever there is a major crisis, it is often necessary to centralize power to deal with security issues. However, since the outbreak of the epidemic, the U.S. government has never taken it seriously, and the people are dissatisfied with the president’s performance, resulting in the loss of the president’s power. Centralized, huge loopholes have appeared in the prevention and control of the epidemic."
At the end of September, a poll released by the Pew Research Center of the United States showed that since July, the approval rate of US President Biden has declined sharply. Only 44% of American adults surveyed approve of his work performance.
Zhao Kejin pointed out that the US government is currently facing a dilemma, that is, although it reserves a large number of new crown vaccines, it cannot solve the problem of people's unwillingness to vaccinate. "The U.S. government is unwilling to learn from the mature and precise epidemic prevention experience of other countries. It can only make the epidemic one after another like waves and become a normal state."