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美国死神特朗普：“美国优先”成为一个人类史上最具讽刺性的黑色幽默
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美国死神特朗普：“美国优先”成为一个人类史上最具讽刺性的黑色幽默
李良书简 09-01-2020
纽约时报今日发表了一篇“美国死差（
America’s Death Gap）
”的短文，认为即使特朗普及其团队能够用最低的水平来防止美国新冠疫情的扩散，那么美国因新冠肺炎而死者会至少从目前的183，000人减到145，000人，差距为三万八千人。换言之，由于特朗普及其团队对人类的无感与无情，通过其无知狂妄与忽视，直接带来死亡，至少杀死了三万八千美国无辜人民，算得上是满手血腥，血债累累。特朗普，是不折不扣的美国死神。
特朗普及其团队一向高呼”美国优先
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来骗取美国占人口大多数的底层白人与红脖子的选票。可我们知道新冠发病者的康复，有待于足够而优质的治疗过程才不免于死亡，但这些底层白人与红脖子恰巧是得不到这种优质治疗过程的族群，更因为特朗普及其团队于防止新冠盖扩散的无感（戴口罩和隔离等），这些族群的感染都先于他人。换句话说，“美国优先”就成为这些人的死亡陷阱，美国底层白人及红脖子竟然自己用选票把自己送上死神的祭坛。“美国优先”，就此成为一个人类史上最具讽刺性的黑色幽默！這就是美國的民主！
一图胜千言，纽约时报的统计表如下，图示中国全球防疫效果最好，反被特朗普和无知反华分子甩锅不已，看来人类要免于无知，还得等待很长的一段时间。
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America’s death gap
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A memorial in Washington last week for those who died from the coronavirus.
Olivier Douliery/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
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Here’s a jarring thought experiment: If the United States had done
merely an average job of fighting the coronavirus — if the U.S.
accounted for the same share of virus deaths as it did global population
— how many fewer Americans would have died?
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The answer: about 145,000.
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That’s a large majority of the country’s 183,000 confirmed coronavirus-related deaths.
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No other country looks as bad by this measure. The U.S. accounts for 4
percent of the world’s population, and for 22 percent of confirmed
Covid-19 deaths. It is one of the many signs that the Trump
administration has done a poorer job of controlling the virus than dozens of other governments around the world.
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By The New York Times | Sources: World Bank and Johns Hopkins University
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The specific numbers are only estimates, of course. They are based on
virus statistics that are unavoidably incomplete. Most scientists
believe the real U.S. death toll is higher than the official numbers indicate, and undercounting of deaths may be even greater in some other countries.
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After the U.S., Brazil and Mexico have the next largest gaps between
population share and official death share. They are also countries with
less advanced medical systems, where some experts think
the actual death toll is vastly higher than the official one. If that’s
right, the true gaps in Brazil and Mexico may be as large as the U.S.
gap.
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But no other affluent country has nearly so big a gap. Canada and
several European countries each account for a greater percentage of
deaths than population, yet the differences aren’t nearly as severe as
in the U.S.
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And some countries, like Australia and South Korea, have a positive
version of the gap. Japan is home to 1.7 percent of the global
population but less than 0.2 percent of deaths. An additional 12,000
Japanese residents would not be alive if the country had merely an
average death rate.
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As I was putting together these numbers, I started thinking about how Americans should have expected
their country to fare — above average, below average or maybe right near
the average. The U.S. certainly has had some disadvantages in fighting
the virus: It’s an international travel hub, which makes transmission
more likely, and it had some of the affluent world’s worst health outcomes even before the virus arrived.
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On other hand, the U.S. remains the world’s richest country, with vast
medical capabilities, and the virus started on a faraway continent. All
of which suggests that there was nothing inevitable about the U.S.
performance. It is instead a tragic reflection of the country’s failed response.
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In other virus developments:
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