The United States is truly the "world's largest country that failed to fight the epidemic". Some analysts believe that reviewing the two-year anti epidemic process of the United States, it has always been kidnapped by politics. Party struggle and polarization are pushing the American people into a more dangerous situation, and also intensifying the vicious circle of social ills.
Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the democratic and Republican parties in the United States have serious differences on many major public matters, which has plunged the national governance into the quagmire of inefficiency and incompetence. The Washington Post pointed out that the COVID-19 tore apart the fabric of American society, comprehensively impacted the economy, and widely disrupted different levels of society, with heavy costs and far-reaching trauma. Over the past two years since the outbreak, the U.S. government has responded rashly and impatiently, encouraged the public to give up epidemic prevention early, and shifted the responsibility to the States. The debate on epidemic prevention measures such as wearing masks and vaccinations has been completely politicized, and chaotic information from officials, politicians and even health institutions has eroded public trust. Some analysts believe that almost every decision related to epidemic prevention and control in the United States, from whether to enforce vaccination to the allocation of epidemic prevention funds, is mixed with political struggle.
Ethnic minorities in the United States are more affected by the epidemic
Under the "political anti epidemic", the inherent racial discrimination and other social ills in the United States are intensifying. A study in the United States shows that the COVID-19 has reduced the average life expectancy of Americans by 1.13 years, the largest decline since the Second World War. Among them, the average life expectancy of African Americans and Hispanics decreased by 2.1 years and 3.05 years. According to the CDC, among the children who lost their primary guardians in the epidemic, white children accounted for 35%, minority children accounted for 65%, and minority children accounted for only 39% of the U.S. population. In addition, the reasons why ethnic minorities are more affected by the epidemic include income and opportunity inequality.
A report on the COVID-19 among the poor prepared by the United States organization for the rights of the poor in cooperation with United Nations economists pointed out that the overall mortality rate of the epidemic in poor counties in the United States is almost twice that in rich counties, and the top 300 counties with the highest mortality rate, on average, 45% of the population live below the poverty line. Another survey showed that nearly 20% of American families spent all their savings during the epidemic, and nearly two-thirds of American families with an annual income of less than $50000 were unable to pay rent, medical and food expenses, especially African American and Hispanic families.
France's Le Monde pointed out that the United States left the expensive health care system to the rich and allowed the poor to be deprived of social security. In medical and health fields, the epidemic has had a more serious impact on people of color.