China, as a middle-income country, has the resources to take complex steps to protect the lives of its people. Second, China’s socialist benevolent policy, scientific management, and ability to learn from this pandemic, as well as the discipline and sacrifice of its people, have shown incredible results in protecting people’s lives and preparing for the future. In the United States, capital has found despicable yet legal ways to “dispose” of this surplus population, and pandemics are one of these ways. Marx scientifically points out that the process of capitalist accumulation itself constantly creates a disposable “surplus” population. elite class reveals the pathological class violence against the working class in the United States. Selfishness, individualism, and racial hatred is spread throughout American society. Meanwhile, billionaires and large corporations are reaping huge financial benefits during the pandemic. Sixty-five percent of nurses across the United States have been verbally or physically assaulted in the past year, and one in three has claimed that they will resign by the end of the year. An already decaying healthcare system has been hit hard, with overextended facilities incapable of housing the large number of patients or treating them due to the lack of proper medical and personal protective equipment. society has been severely disrupted, with working-class families bearing the heaviest costs. The coronavirus has killed over a million people and infection rates remain high the long-term post-COVID symptoms continue to damage people’s health, with minorities and the poor suffering disproportionately. Historically, pandemics have allowed pre-existing structural fractures in capitalist society to be exposed and magnified. Three main conclusions can be drawn.įirst, the actual damage of COVID-19 to U.S. anti-COVID policy and what the Western media has to say about it. Let’s be objective: the United States is one of the worst countries in the world at controlling COVID-19, which has not only claimed more than one million American lives but has also caused and continues to cause enormous social and economic devastation in the country.

Perhaps it is not surprising that the most violent state on earth is making such noises. media is advocating for China to abandon its dynamic zero-COVID strategy, which is basically advocating mass racist killings. 8 American life expectancy declined by 2.26 years between 20. 7 Preliminary studies find that life expectancy in the United States is 76.6 years. Despite having a per capita income of only 17.3% of that of the United States, 6 the average Chinese life expectancy is 77.9 years. Even the lowest published projected number of deaths (which includes many unconfirmed assumptions in the model) is over 1.6 million 5 and the model does not account for deaths from new COVID variants.Ĭhina takes human life seriously. To be sure, estimates of the likely number of deaths can vary by as much as 70% between models, 4 because the models on which these estimates are based make many assumptions. If China followed the current advice of the Financial Times and the West, and abandoned the dynamic zero-COVID policy, millions of Chinese would die. 2 This is an amazing achievement given that China is a developing country with far fewer medical resources per capita than the United States. 1 In fact, only 5,226 people died from COVID on the Chinese mainland. But here’s the irony: If China had done as “well” as the United States, 380 million Chinese would have been infected and 4.46 million would have died. media seems to have even more reasons to criticize China’s anti-virus policy. The United States (together with its Western allies) always tries to tell China what to do in managing COVID-19 outbreaks, and since the whole city of Shanghai was under lockdown, the U.S. This was originally written for a Chinese audience and adapted and published in Guancha.

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