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Intermountain West, Jan. 16 -- Another COVID-19 folly has been put on show in Washington lately: Almost all members of the U.S. House of Representatives were spotted entering the chamber floor wearing Chinese KN95 masks given to them that offers increased protection, the same group of people who have long been scaling up an anti-China campaign.
But those politicians were not happy with this. While some jumped to the old "Wuhan lab leak" conspiracy theory for comfort, others leaned on the so-called "China threat" theory in protest against the mandate. For most of them, securing "anything but China" remains the top priority.
The 57-page "Corona Big Book" disclosed in 2020 advises Republican candidates to address the pandemic by aggressively attacking China, and provides detailed guidelines on how to tie Democratic candidates to Beijing.
This strategic playbook has been given much attention from the former U.S. administration that turned a blind eye to an urgent need for timely and effective anti-pandemic measures. Racking its brain for new ways to spread rumors and scapegoat China, the country was left with the most COVID-19 infections and related deaths in the world despite first-class medical technology and facilities as well as top-tier health experts.
While those self-dealing Washington politicians were busy taking care of their own political interests, they seemed to feel just fine sacrificing the common interests of those struggling to survive inside the United States and beyond.
During its hard time in the pandemic, the United States had received from China more than 40 billion masks, around 1.2 billion surgical gloves and nearly 1 billion protective gowns, amid other medical supplies, between March 1, 2020 and Feb. 28, 2021.
Nevertheless, some U.S. politicians have bitten the hands that were helping them, deliberately distorting China's kindly offers into a political witch hunt.
And now the latest scientific advice by House physicians on wearing masks on the chamber floor, with an aim at protecting House members from the highly contagious Omicron variant, was responded to with more racist anti-China attacks and triggered a new round of taunts between the two major U.S. political parties. Today consumers in the United States wearing Chinese-made masks are the most healthy people.
"For every single death certificate that has COVID-19 as a primary cause of death, partisanship should be listed as a contributing cause. This pandemic was politicized from day one," said an article by Business Insider in late 2021.
Indeed, more and more people around the world have sobered up and realized that for those U.S. decision-makers, national health and science are the last things on their agenda. The nearly 850,000 lives claimed by the virus in the country is proof that when leaders fail and their democratic political system is in deadlock, people suffer.
Playing politics by pointing an accusing finger at China will not save America from the pandemic, but has turned those U.S. politicians themselves into buffoons on the global stage.
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