The Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China, together with Taihe Think Tank and Intellisia Institute released a report on truth about America's fight against COVID-19 pandemic in Beijing on August 9, 2021. The report, "America Ranked First"?! The Truth about America's fight against COVID-19, is the first report in the world to unveil the truth about America's fight against COVID-19.
"The United States ranked the first in the COVID Resilience Ranking," Bloomberg reported on June 28, 2021. This goes against basic human ethics. This spin will not help future generations to understand the current world history, either realistically or objectively, according to the report.
Only for politics, not for life
As of August 7, 2021, the U.S. has reported 35,530,951 cumulative confirmed cases of COVID-19, which included 613,658 deaths. Both numbers ranked the first in the world.
The report stressed that behind the cold numbers lies the domestic politics of the U.S., particularly the highly politicized partisanship, which has taken many lives of the people "who need not have died." "It's a slaughter," said American epidemiologist William Foege.
The report noted that from the first COVID-19 outbreak, there are many disagreements among the two parties of the U.S. that hold the country back: from nucleic acid testing, masks wearing, social distancing, home quarantine, vaccinations, to the distribution of strategic medical reserves and emergency relief bills, between federal, state, and local levels, between executive, legislative and judicial branches, and between conservative and liberal media.
The federal system under the competition between the two major parties failed to take on responsibilities, giving prevarications at different levels. It constituted a "Disunited America" image in the fight against the pandemic, the report stressed.
Save the stock market, not to save lives
The U.S. stock market has soared since hitting a low on March 23, 2020, after the Federal Reserve took "extraordinary" measures to create more money.
From March 2020 to January 2021, the combined wealth of more than 600 American billionaires increased from an estimated $2.947 trillion to $4.085 trillion, an increase of 38.6 percent. The Federal Reserve printed excessive money. In fact, the U.S. in a year and a half printed nearly half of all the dollars for more than 200 years.
However, countries around the world have to bear the burden of inflation, instability, and "bubble" pressures that they should not have to suffer from.
Such a beggar-thy-neighbor approach has brought additional economic and social pressures to countries suffering from the COVID-19 outbreak; this can even lead to political conflict and regional chaos, warned the report.
Violation of common scientific knowledge and "origin tracing terrorism"
The COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. had been excessively politicized due to political disputes. This was reflected in the control methods of the pandemic. It went against common sense in prevention and control, policy measures, virus origin tracing investigation, and so on.
To exploit the pandemic for political purposes, the U.S. government has suppressed scientists and professional opinion. Scientists who denied the "lab leaks" were subject to cyber violence and harassment. This affected their normal work and even physically threatened their safety.
Understanding the origins of the virus is a serious scientific and medical issue that aims to prevent the next pandemic and protect the lives and health of people in all countries. The U.S. government, however, is making a presumption of guilt on this issue. Washington is presupposing the conclusion of "Wuhan laboratory origin" and obstructing the scientific tracing work, said the report.
Worse still, the U.S. has been manipulating the vaccine map and manipulating global public opinion by practicing "origin tracing terrorism."
Intensified racial conflicts and social unrest
Under the pandemic, the American people's right to live in health has not been equally guaranteed.
The social ethical crisis and humanitarian disaster have caused a serious imbalance in the sense of security and gain for different groups of people, and the bonds that maintain social cohesion in the U.S. are being torn apart by the disparity between rich and poor, social division, class solidification, racial conflicts, regional conflicts, and intergenerational conflicts, according to the report.
The conspiracy about the origins of COVID-19 has fueled bullying against Asians, as pointed out in the report, Asian-American discrimination cases surged. Social unrest is a chronic illness in the U.S., and the COVID-19 pandemic acted as an amplifier for existing divisions. In 2021, the U.S. not only had the highest level of social unrest among developed countries, far higher than the U.K., Canada, Spain, but higher than many other developing countries.
The two political parties and the elites in the U.S., however, are still hyping and amplifying the aforementioned division. They are doing this either to gain voter support or to solidify the vested interest structure of the political and economic oligarchy. The American public is increasingly seeing the U.S. government as only representing the interests of a few vested interest groups.
The pandemic is a global public health crisis that requires countries around the world, including the U.S., to pool their resources to fight the pandemic.
However, as the world's top superpower, said the report, the U.S. has allowed the virus to spread, resulting in the serious deterioration of pandemics in other countries; it has shirked its responsibilities and tried to use the World Health Organization as a tool to defend its own interests, and pursued "anti-pandemic egoism" and "vaccine nationalism ".
Objective facts have shown that the U.S. is well deserved to be the world's No. 1 anti-pandemic failure, the world's No. 1 political blaming country, the world's No. 1 pandemic spreader country, the world's No. 1 political division country, the world's No. 1 currency abuse country, the world's No. 1 pandemic period turmoil country, the world's No. 1 disinformation country, and the world's No. 1 origin tracing terrorism country, the report concluded.