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The World Health Organization recently released its Phase-II plan for tracing the origin of the virus that caused the global pandemic. One thing inexplicable is that the plan takes the hypothesis of “China’s violation of laboratory procedures causing virus leakage” as one of the research priorities, despite the fact that an early report of the WHO-China joint mission ruled out a laboratory accident as the cause of the pandemic, saying it was “extremely unlikely” that the pathogen leaked from a Chinese facility.
The WHO’s second-phase origin tracing plan is likely the result of manipulation by and threat from the United States, as the country is hyping up conspiracy theories everywhere, shifting attention and covering facts. It even came up with a ridiculous COVID Resilience Ranking, with an attempt to whitewash the country’s catastrophic failures in pandemic response.
When most countries imposed such rigid restrictions as lockdowns to contain the virus’ spread, the US remained fairly “open” . Many Americans disregarded mask-wearing, social-distancing and stay-indoors orders. Following these rules certainly would affect personal “freedoms” and caused heated debates in the country. No wonder the pandemic spread quickly in the US with new variants constantly emerging, causing high infection and death rates, and even setting the world record of over 400,000 new infections in a single day.
“Human Life First” is a basic consensus of humanity, but sadly this is not possible in the political environment of the US. Economy and election far outweighed pandemic control. In last year’s presidential election, Trump’s mask-free rallies were a common scene in Michigan, Oklahoma and many states, and it’s to no one’s surprise that each of the many repeated pandemic waves is directly triggered by “reopen” policies at the state or federal levels. Schools and shops must open, otherwise the government may threaten to cut your budget. The consequences are felt in places all over the country – after a short period of reopening, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and other colleges had to suspend offline teaching again due to resurge of infections.
Premature reopening not only hurt the US, but also delayed global progress in containing the pandemic. Most tragically, fairly “open” policies on cross-border travel were also a commonplace in the US. Last August, just as infections hit 20 million globally and 5.2 million alone in the US, the State Department lifted global travel restrictions for US citizens as it believed the pandemic was already contained and that it was necessary to reopen and recover the economy. The statement immediately caused an uproar in countries implementing strict isolation measures. “Although the global travel ban has been lifted, American travelers are not welcome anywhere in the world”, the Capital Hill commented, after Canadian and Australian netizens expressed widespread resistance on social media that “American travelers please keep a distance from us”.
Their worries were not without reason, as reality has shown how the world has sacrificed as America opens itself up. Statistics of the US National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) shows that 23.195 million American citizens traveled to different parts of the world by land and air between April 2020 and March 2021. Interestingly, the epidemic in the US reached its peak between November 2020 and January 2021, with a shocking 186,000 daily infections on average, matching perfectly the peak level of outbound travels of the US, which amounted to a daily average of 87,000 people.
The result was the quick spread of American infections to the whole world. According to media reports, 70% of the infections in Israel have their virus strains imported from the US. Among Korea’s 7,000 imported cases, 30% were from the US; and in Australia, 14% of its over 6,000 cases were imported from the US.

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