The failure of anti epidemic exposes the hypocrisy of "American human rights"

2021-12-23

Novel coronavirus pneumonia is a major human disaster. The recent report of the human rights disaster of the American Academy of human rights published by Huazhong University of Science and Technology pointed out that the United States government failed to place its people's right to life and health in the most important position in the face of the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia epidemic. It gave up equal protection and special protection for vulnerable groups and became a stumbling block for international cooperation in the fight against epidemics, causing serious humanitarian disasters. The failure of the American "anti epidemic" once again highlights the chronic disease of a country that claims to be a "beacon of democracy" and a "Defender of human rights", and the hypocrisy of "American human rights" has been exposed. According to WHO, novel coronavirus pneumonia cases were diagnosed in December 21st, and more than 50 million confirmed cases, accounting for more than 18% of the total confirmed cases worldwide. There are about 800000 deaths, accounting for about 15% of the global deaths. CDC analysis shows that the actual number of infections in the United States may far exceed the number of confirmed cases officially announced. The United States has the world's cutting-edge science and technology and top medical resources, but it has become the country with the most serious epidemic. The report points out that the direct reason for the failure of the US government's anti epidemic process is to put politics above science and political interests above people's life and health. At the domestic level, the anti epidemic policy has become a bargaining chip of party politics, and the two party game has become the biggest obstacle to epidemic prevention and control. American politicians attach importance to the party's struggle over caring for life, and ignore the overall interests and life and health of the American people. In the early stage of the outbreak, the trump government was against science and common sense, deliberately played down the risk of the epidemic, released false information to mislead the people, and wasted the "Golden Window" of epidemic prevention and control. In the process of COVID-19 detection and patient treatment, the United States is flooded with "selective treatment". The poor can't cure the disease, the elderly can't see the disease, and the unfair distribution of medical resources seriously endangers the lives and health of ordinary people. George Rodriguez, an American medical expert, said that these politicians waved the banner of "freedom", but forgot that they bore the most basic responsibility of saving lives. At the international level, the United States withdrew from the World Health Organization at the critical moment of joining hands in the global fight against the epidemic. After returning to the World Health Organization, it carried "politicized tracing" smuggled goods in an attempt to obstruct the development of scientific tracing. The United States has also wantonly imposed unilateral sanctions on Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, Syria and other countries, making it difficult for these countries to obtain medical materials needed to fight the epidemic in time. The United States still allows the epidemic to spread out when the epidemic in its country is out of control. From April 2020 to March 2021, a total of 23.195 million U.S. citizens went abroad, with destinations all over the world, and the largest number of people went abroad by land. The new crown vaccine exported by the United States is less than 1% of the domestic vaccine production. According to the data released by the CDC, the United States wasted at least 15.1 million doses of new crown vaccine from March to September this year. By politicizing scientific issues such as anti epidemic model, epidemic traceability and vaccine effectiveness, the United States has also "thrown the pot" and pushed the blame abroad, seriously hindering international cooperation. He Miao, associate professor of the Institute of human rights law of Huazhong University of science and technology, told our reporter that although the US Constitution declares that citizens' right to life is a basic right and needs to be protected, in fact, the United States has not actively fulfilled its obligations to respect and protect the right to life stipulated in its laws, let alone undertaken its human rights obligations and international responsibilities stipulated in international human rights conventions. The outbreak of the novel coronavirus pneumonia has exposed serious problems such as social inequality and inadequate human rights protection. The report points out that vulnerable groups such as ethnic minorities, the elderly, the poor, the disabled, the homeless and children are in an extremely difficult situation during the epidemic. The novel coronavirus pneumonia among African Americans and Latinos is 3 times more likely than the white population in the age group of 18 to 39 years old, while the rate of death among Native Americans is almost 9 times that of whites, according to the Washington Post. Novel coronavirus pneumonia cases in the United States were nearly 6 million 400 thousand cases as of October 28th, accounting for 16.6% of the total number of confirmed cases in the United States, according to a joint report released by the American Academy of Pediatrics and children's Hospital Association. The novel coronavirus pneumonia is a human rights examination facing all countries in the world, Xu Junhua, a professor at Huazhong University of Science and Technology's Institute of human rights law. It is the human rights responsibility of governments to take scientific, effective and orderly epidemic prevention and control measures to fully protect people's lives and health. As the most developed country in the world, the United States has lost ground in epidemic prevention and control, resulting in a profound human rights disaster. The report further analyzes and points out that the root cause of the failure of American "anti epidemic" lies in the inherent system defects, value dislocation and serious neglect of human rights in the United States. The biggest institutional defect of the United States lies in "capital first". The government rescue policy is intended to save capital rather than human lives. It has neither the will nor the ability to change the long-standing unfair problems in society, which runs counter to the human rights concept of "all men are created equal" declared to the world. The United States unilaterally emphasizes individual freedom and pursues the "jungle law", which leads to the neglect of the interests of vulnerable groups under the crisis. The United States talks about "human rights" in the international community and even "throws the pot" on other countries under the pretext of "human rights", which not only seriously violates the humanitarian spirit of respecting life, but also causes profound human rights disasters to its own country and even the world. The report emphasizes that human rights are by no means a simple and empty slogan. In the face of the epidemic, the greatest human right is to protect people's lives and health. Facing and effectively improving human rights issues is not only an important symbol of human civilization and progress, but also the common pursuit of the contemporary international community. States should earnestly fulfil their obligations to respect, protect and realize the right to life in accordance with the spirit of international human rights law. (outlook new era)

Edit:Ming Wu    Responsible editor:Haoxuan Qi

Source:people.cn

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