美媒:美国为何抗疫失败?无能、阶级暴力、欺骗和谎言
2023-07-14 来源:旧番剧
【观察者网 讯】
美国是全球新冠疫情最严重的国家,累计确诊病例和死亡病例数长期高居全球之首。全球医疗技术领先、医疗资源丰富的美国,为何会沦为最大抗疫失败国?
7月18日,美国《每月评论》发表美籍记者和编辑黛博拉·韦内齐亚尔的文章《美国为何抗疫失败:无能、阶级暴力、欺骗和谎言》(Why the U.S. failed to control COVID-19: incompetence, class violence, deception, and lies),作者指出,新冠对美国社会的实际损害被大大低估了,资本找到了卑鄙但合法的方式来“抛弃”这些剩余人口,疾病大流行是其中的方式之一。而中国的社会主义仁政、科学管理和从这次流行病中学习的能力、以及中国人民的纪律和牺牲精神,在保护人民的生命和为未来做准备方面显示了令人难以置信的结果。
值得注意的是,这篇文章6月29日首发在观察者网,引起极大的关注,被全网转载。很多网友感叹这位记者是个真正了解中国的外籍人士,并希望这样客观、一针见血的文章能够让更多的西方人所看到;还对文中众多表述的英文颇为感兴趣,如社会主义仁政等等。
《每月评论》英文版稍作修改,观察者网刊发全文,以飨读者。
《每日评论(Monthly Review)》 截图
The United States (together with its Western allies) always tries to tell China what to do in managing COVID-19 outbreaks, and since the whole city of Shanghai was under lockdown, the U.S. media seems to have even more reasons to criticize China’s anti-virus policy. But here’s the irony: If China had done as “well” as the United States, 380 million Chinese would have been infected and 4.46 million would have died.1 In fact, only 5,226 people died from COVID on the Chinese mainland.2 This is an amazing achievement given that China is a developing country with far fewer medical resources per capita than the United States.3