After the coronavirus outbreak in China
The news of the coronavirus epidemic in China is constantly updated every day, and the number of confirmed cases and deaths after 14 days of closed pathogenic cities continues to rise.
For me, overseas Chinese in the United States, I am also very worried about the epidemic situation in China. Although my parents already moved to the United States, my other family members and my very good friends are also in China. As for China under centralized leadership, we cannot know the true reports of the Chinese epidemic through Chinese media. But I have to say that this virus outbreak will have a huge negative impact on China and even the world.
Coronavirus spreads rapidly, there are divergent opinions on where pathogens come from
In just a few days, from the beginning of the virus outbreak in Wuhan, it has spread all over China, and even globally, there are three main reasons for the rapid spread of coronavirus, one of which is the Chinese New Year season, people working other places have gone home for the new year, reunited with their family; The second reason is that Wuhan City, Hubei Province is the seventh-largest city in China. It is located in the center of China and connects 9 provinces. Wuhan International Airport receives an average of 20 million passengers a year. The third reason is that there is many Chinese living overseas, and they often travel to and from other countries. Many foreign companies also set up factories here. According to Chinese reports, the virus may come from the seafood market in Wuhan. Now that the market has been sealed up and cleaned up by the government, you cannot know or confirm where the pathogen first started. Someone on the Internet said that the virus may have been accidentally leaked by Wuhan Virus Research Institute. It cannot be confirmed yet.
Exposing the Chinese government’s negligence in the management of the epidemic, the authenticity of the news is speculative, and people’s free speech is full of challenges
The epidemic showed signs of infecting people at the end of December, but the leaders of Wuhan did not inform the people in a timely manner. The news about the virus was because the doctors in Wuhan Hospital informed family and friends in the WeChat group to spread the news. Through the dissemination of information from local people in Wuhan, a large number of deaths in Wuhan were treated with ordinary pneumonia because they were not diagnosed in time, and were not included in the data of confirmed pneumonia deaths in Wuhan. It can be seen that the official number of infections and deaths needs to be verified.
In the United States, you can criticize the president of the United States, or you can criticize the foolish decision of a certain party. But if you criticize Chinese leaders in China for questioning their leadership, you may be monitored or called by police to “drink tea”.
The outbreak of the coronavirus challenged the “freedom of speech” packaged by the Chinese government. Many people in Wuhan have begun to realize that the news has not faithfully reported their current difficult situation. Every day, it is about how the government has taken timely protective measures or built the new hospitals but ignores the fact that people do not have transportation to go to the hospital due to the management of closed city traffic; most of them have to go home and isolate themselves, but they face the risk of infecting their families; Medical personnel work constantly under high risk; lack of medical facilities; methods for detecting viruses may not be timely and may be incorrect and so on. These voices may be concealed constantly, but the truth will be revealed after all with a small gap.
China’s economy is facing great challenges, and global supply chains are facing huge obstacles
The epidemic brought huge losses to China’s service industry, tourism, and catering. Many people are about to face unemployment. As a supplier around the world, China has a decisive position. Excessive downtime will cause the supply chain of the chemical, automotive, textile, and electronics industries to be disrupted. Multinational companies will then have to rush to find alternatives and even be forced to cut or stop production. South Korea’s Hyundai Motor has now fallen into this situation: The company announced on February 4 that its domestic production base in South Korea was suspended due to a shortage of automotive component wiring harnesses purchased on a large scale in China. Many items made in china for my company too, At present, the factory has stopped production, and China’s logistics has also stopped. It is also facing the situation of no goods sold. The outbreak also caused losses to companies in the United States, Asia, and Europe. Many problems are beginning to emerge, especially over-reliance on China’s productivity
It now appears that the epidemic has no tendency to end immediately, or even gradually worsens, and everyone’s lives have been greatly affected, even severely hit.
This virus lets us once again let us know the limitations of human beings, and we don’t even know how the virus is transmitted. Let us see how small we are. The end of man is often the beginning of God. Our lives are not in our own hands. We cannot rely on other people or the government. We cannot rely on ourselves. We cannot trust the media. Even if we know what is not true, we cannot make any changes. Should we rethink, what should we really believe, and who can we rely on?
To end with a netizen’s words:
when the epidemic is over, we want to go to our favorite restaurants with friends we haven’t seen for a long time, when we walk on the street, can see people nodding and saying hello to each other with an actual smile on their face, after all the things we’ve been through, I believe we are gonna cherish everything we have, and start living our beautiful life again.
