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First of all, thank you for asking this question. At least in a way that seeks access to information, discussing this controversial issue.As for the traceability of Covid-19, I think our country has done its best to solve the epidemic situation with a positive and open attitude, and the actual results are obvious. The epidemic situation in China has been effectively controlled. Of course, some friends from the west can continue to believe in the reports of the western free media, believing that China is lying and that China is hiding.Really, I'm really sorry. The picture is my life, the life of an ordinary Chinese office worker.Of course, our Western friends can let themselves not believe, can continue thinking that Chinese people live in hell. But it doesn't matter. For us, those are just some rumors that are not worth refuting.So, let's talk about Trump and Pompeo's lies. Nearly 11 months have passed since the outbreak. To be honest, although there are many people in the United States trying to fight the epidemic, Trump and Pompeo are playing the role of accomplices of the virus.Even now, the trump administration has not provided any real evidence to prove that the virus came from China, and neither Nature nor Science supports the so-called artificial virus theory.Of course, another group of people who say they have evidence very much like to express it in such a mode. They say that so-called media has evidence, and some Chinese writers have evidence. But they never ask whether the so-called source evidence is reliable. Finally, it turns into self-talk and circular argument, that is, "Because I have evidence, I have evidence."After all, I have been hoping that the control of the epidemic in the US is faster than that in my country. But unfortunately, I didn't see American politicians really respond well to the epidemic, but at this time they released more political viruses.At least, only the United States has left the World Health Organization. What are politicians like Pompeo afraid of?

Let me take a stab at an adult answer here that doesn’t just blame Donald Trump. I’m not a Trump “supporter” and I’m not voting for him in November, but I’ve also survived the four-year-long pandemic called Trump Derangement Syndrome. You can’t really isolate from TDS, definitely not on Quora, but you can acquire some immunity to it.I have complex and therefore moderate views on Covid in the United States. So, I’m not trying to provide a glowing picture of the situation here. But let me try to give a balanced view of what’s happening.Why is the United States “unable” to control Covid-19, while other “developed” or even “developing” countries (I despise these terms) have “controlled” it?I doubt the premise of that statement, but I’ll come back to that.I’ll start by saying that comparing the U.S. to Europe, Canada, or New Zealand is something that a lot of people do, but there’s a ton of nuance in all these places. They’re just not the same. Calling them all “developed” is meaningless.Many Americans have “comorbidities” that are simply more common here than in those other “developed” countries.I think the amount of obesity in the United States is greatly exaggerated and that definitions of obesity are farcically overblown — but there’s no doubt that Americans are one of the more obese countries on earth. Trump didn’t cause that.After Malta, the UK is the second most obese country in Europe. That doesn’t totally explain why the UK is also the most Covid-infected European country. But I’d be amazed if it wasn’t a major factor. Denmark, Croatia and Albania, on the other hand, are the least obese. It’s not farfetched to wonder if that explains why they haven’t been walloped by Covid, like Britain has.Non-white people are more susceptible to this virus than whites are. So far, that appears to be an established scientific fact, often reported in the liberal media.Unlike Poland or Iceland, for example, the United States — to our great credit — has a very large non-white population. We’re one of the most ethnically and racially diverse countries around. I love that about America, but it does complicate the picture here. An overwhelmingly white country like Iceland is a different group of people, with (apparently) different biological factors and certainly a different social history.The CDC is crystal-clear:“Non-Hispanic American Indian or Alaska Native persons have a rate approximately 5 times that of non-Hispanic white persons. Non-Hispanic black persons have a rate approximately 5 times that of non-Hispanic white persons. Hispanic or Latino persons have a rate approximately 4 times that of non-Hispanic white persons.”That data isn’t unique to the United States. European cities, where there’s a lot of immigrants, are reporting something similar. But unlike many countries that suppressed the virus (for now), the U.S. has a ton of racial and ethnic diversity.The verdict is still out over whether those differences are due to some unknown genetic cause, different blood types, or just the obvious social and health disparities that are very much a part of American life and history — to our enormous discredit. But again, those differences didn’t start with Trump.Some comorbidities are often handed to you by fate (not everybody with diabetes lived an unhealthy lifestyle), some are handed to you by your own lifestyle choices. A lot people in the United States who have died of Covid simply didn’t live a healthy lifestyle. Choices like diet, etc. — particularly the stereotypical American diet — are a big factor in whether you’ll succumb to Covid. So are the food deserts that are part of life in some American neighborhoods. Trump isn’t the origin of food deserts.For a lot of different reasons, the U.S. simply has more health problems than many other “developed” countries. Once you look at the reality of Europe and peer beyond the fairy-tale image, Europe has all these problems, too. So does China. So does Canada. So does New Zealand. But at what rate?America’s pre-existing debacle over insurance and health care didn’t help.Again, Trump didn’t create that problem. He failed to solve it. But this is deeper than party politics or who sits in the White House. I’m sure I’m not hallucinating or cherry-picking when I point out that the particular boroughs of New York hardest hit by Covid were The Bronx and Queens. New Orleans was hit hard early on. So was Detroit and South Chicago. Connect the dots. Lower-income places face a lot of challenges.The U.S. is full of discrepanices. Europe proves the point, because the same undercurrents of racial discrimination that exist in the U.S. exist in Europe, too. And look where Covid is hitting particularly hard: not just in nursing homes, but among immigrants in France and Britain[1][2]. I’m not saying I totally agree with this, but the virus’ disproportionate effect on non-white Britons has caused many people to look at what effect racial disparities have in the UK.[3]Again, if Iceland or Norway are different, it’s because they're different societies. Europe isn’t a monolith. No continent is.Don’t know if you heard, but the United States is made up of 328 million people and growing. (That’s not even including undocumented immigrants, who have the worst access to healthcare of any group in this country and are reluctant to even show up to a doctor’s office from fear of deportation.) It’s no surprise that the U.S. has the largest sheer number of cases compared to, uh, tiny Denmark. For sure, the rate here is worse than Denmark’s, but again, different cultures.A country like New Zealand also has fewer issues with poverty than the U.S. does. Poverty is a comorbidity. Trump didn’t cause poverty. It’s been here from the start. It has a health legacy.I’d be dishonest to let Trump’s administration off the hook. I don’t totally fault Trump’s response, but let me mention one example here of something that galls me, so no one can accuse me of getting cozy with him.Our Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, seriously tried to deny Covid economic relief funds to “DACA” students. These are the “Dreamers,” children of undocumented immigrants, brought here by their parents, through no fault of their own, and most of whom grew up in the U.S. and are definitely Americans. DeVos wanted to prevent them from receiving financial assistance during the pandemic, even back when the state governors wouldn’t allow them to go to work.In the face of an attitude like DeVos’, it’s no surprise that some Americans felt an urgent need to go back to work. They had zero income. A major cabinet member — who comes from one of the richest families in Michigan — refused to help them.Apparently, a lot of Americans didn’t even realize they were eligible for unemployment benefits during Covid. This includes some green card holders (non-U.S. citizens authorized to work here.)I work part-time at a restaurant. Most of my co-workers aren’t U.S. citizens. When I finally went back to work last weekend (for a whopping 8 hours a week), I asked them how much money they’d been making for the last three months, while the restaurant was closed. I was making $1,000 a week on unemployment. Their answer was “Nothing.” Which makes me wonder if they’re here legally, because non-U.S. citizens who work in the United States are eligible for the same benefits I get as a citizen.Undocumented immigrants are a totally different story: they definitely got zero dollars during the shutdowns, so it’s not surprising that people who do some of the most important work in this country wanted to get back to work.Much of the world is way worse off than the average American worker. In India, you’re lucky to get a bag of rice from the government. In South Africa and Colombia, people have been rioting for food and vandalizing delivery trucks. Early on in the pandemic, the police in Kenya shot and killed some teenagers for breaking curfew.U.S. agriculture.Unlike Iceland or Finland, which successfully just shut everything down and went into freeze mode, the U.S. has a mammoth agricultural sector. Countries that don’t grow much of their own food can shut down their restaurants, and farmers won’t suffer much because there aren’t many farmers. Iceland imports almost everything it eats. The rest is mostly sheep and yogurt.The United States is different. Farm families here were already suffering from a decades-long decline, caused partly by competition with agribusiness. For a while last spring, American farmers were destroying their crops and pouring millions of gallons of milk into ditches — because restaurants and school cafeterias were closed and food banks were already overflowing. There’s no mystery behind why farmers wanted America to re-open. Especially dairy farmers, who had to milk cows every day, regardless of the low demand for milk, then throw that milk away. Cows have to be milked daily. That’s just the nature of cows and dairy farms. Few farmers die of Covid. But they had to work every day, for little if any money.The United States has a massive, diverse economy. It’s not a typical economy. It was kicking ass before Covid. Shutting it down wasn’t simply a question of “what happens to barbershops and ice cream stands?”Some Americans just have a different philosophy on Covid. They’re not entirely wrong. A lot of people in Europe, Australia, India, South Africa, you name it, have the same philosophy. Their voices just get drowned out.The downside of countries like Iceland and New Zealand wiping out the virus within their borders pretty quickly is that they still haven’t had much of an encounter with it. They can close the border for as long as they want, but without a vaccine, they haven’t moved an inch closer to natural immunity. The U.S. has. Countries that go into extended lockdown are willing to pay an economic price rather than one in human lives — totally understandble choice — but eventually, dead economies create big problems, some of which directly affect not just health but entire healthcare systems. The U.S. sought to avoid that, perhaps mistakenly, but the motivation was not “We want to kill 150,000 people.If a vaccine doesn’t show up this fall or winter, even countries that kept the virus in check still have to walk on eggshells. Covid probably isn’t done with them yet.One last thing: roving infections around the United States keep the total numbers high here, and that’s partly just because the U.S. is so huge.Weather is a factor there. The virus hit the Northeast really bad back in March and April, when it was still cold and people were already staying indoors. Now it’s out in the baking Arizona desert and down in the steamy South, where people are staying indoors because it’s so hot. Add in the CDC’s highly debatable advice to stay indoors, plus the American obsession with air conditioning, plus tight spaces in a lot of urban housing, and you’ve created a Covid hotbed.People who go outdoors are less likely to get this. One thing the Minneapolis protests (and riots) showed was that being outdoors — even during civil unrest — seriously reduces the chances of spreading Covid. (Covid infections in Minneapolis continue to go down.[4] They’ve been going down since before the Floyd protests. Despite anxious claims that the protests were going to be a “super-spreader” event, cities that were already hit by Covid a few months ago continue to see infections decline after the protests.) Being cooped up with other people indoors, on the other hand, does spread Covid. Especially if you’ve got your windows sealed. New York in March and Phoenix in July have one thing in common: people sitting inside. Even if it’s hot, get outside, get sunlight.I could say more, but I’ll stop.American politicians aren’t exempt from criticism. Trump’s blunders and the response of governors, etc., deserve an entire, non-partisan response of its own.But life in the U.S. is much more complicated than just politics and the economy.Footnotes[1] ‘Like a Prison’: Paris Suburbs Simmer Under Coronavirus Lockdown[2] Les Britanniques noirs trois fois plus susceptibles de mourir du Covid-19[3] A minority opinion on Covid deaths | The Spectator[4] What Minnesota’s Protests Are Revealing About Covid-19 Spread

To answer this question, we should keep the following several common senses in mind:1. Every person has his/her own strengths and deficiencies. No one is perfect. So does a nation. The US is not perfect, neither does China.2. China has its own human rights problems, this is something the Chinese government and its people should not shun away. The correct attitude should be: Try best to improve them with its current capabilities. But don’t ask China to achieve everything in just “one day.”3. Does the US have its own human rights problems? Or is it as claimed by itself, “We are a nation founded on the belief that every person is endowed with inalienable rights. Promoting and defending these rights is central to who we are as a country.”? An encouraging idea, a perfect concept, but not a convincible reality.4. Should human rights issue be politicized? Should not! Has it been politicized? Yes! Good will suggestions on human rights improvements should be welcomed, but no nation should use “human rights issue” as a “weapon” to point fingers at other nations, to attack other nations, or even to sabotage other governments. Everyone who has read till this part might have a clear understanding on which nation has done all the above.5. While using human rights issue as a political tool, are there any double standards? Yes, of course!OK, now, with them in mind, let’s take a look at the latest two reports.On April 20, 2018, the US Dept. of State released the Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2017 (Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 2017).“The 2017 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (The Human Rights Reports) document the status of human rights and worker rights in nearly 200 countries and territories.”“Nearly 200 countries and territories,” a wide enough coverage! Is the US a nation, or is it representing the UN? Is the US our godfather of this blue planet? Coaching all of us on how to behave?On its China part, it presents a 133-page lengthy and detailed report, accusing China ofhttps://www.state.gov/j/drl/rls/hrrpt/humanrightsreport/#wrapper“The most significant human rights issues for which the government was responsible included: arbitrary or unlawful deprivation of life and executions without due process;extralegal measures such as forced disappearances, including extraterritorial ones;torture and coerced confessions of prisoners; arbitrary detention, including strict house arrest and administrative detention, and illegal detentions at unofficial holding facilities known as “black jails”;significant restrictions on freedom of speech, press, assembly, association, religion, and movement (for travel within the country and overseas), including detention and harassment of journalists, lawyers, writers, bloggers, dissidents, petitioners, and others as well as their family members;censorship and tight control of public discourse on the internet, in print, and in other media; refoulement of asylum seekers to North Korea;the inability of citizens to choose their government; corruption;severe repression of organizations and individuals involved in human rights advocacy, as well as in public interest and ethnic minority issues;a coercive birth-limitation policy that in some cases included sterilization or abortions;trafficking in persons;and severe restrictions on labor rights, including a ban on workers organizing or joining unions of their own choosing.Official repression of the freedoms of speech, religion, movement, association, and assembly of Tibetans in the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) and other Tibetan areas and of Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region (XUAR) worsened and were more severe than in other areas of the country.In the XUAR officials imposed new regulations, increased severely repressive security measures, and subjected individuals engaged in peaceful expression of political and religious views to arbitrary arrest, detention harassment, and expedited judicial procedures without due process in the name of combatting terrorism and extremism.”Well, if you take all these seriously, and if you count all criminal acts by individuals or gang groups as human rights violations, then, it is no wonder why there are sweeping accusations on China, as well as “nearly 200 countries and territories.”And if you believe all these, it is no wonder that most Westerners are believing that Chinese are living under miserable and oppressed conditions without any freedom, and waiting for their salvation.But, please use more of your mind: If all Chinese are living in such conditions, how can they improve the country from a poor and under-developed one into the second largest economy within just four decades? How could so many Chinese going abroad to study, to work, to tour the world? How could so many Chinese enterprises go global to invest, to build up factories or set up companies in other nations? ......Of course, I am not saying China is perfect, some of the problems are indeed existing here. Some might be too difficult to change in a short period of time, some are actually on progress. But old problems solved, new ones will arise. That’s how human history evolves.And I can say, China, in return, also issued a report yesterday (April 24, 2018).Full text: Human Rights Record of the United States in 2017http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-04/24/c_137134060.htmAs reported by Xinhua, “China published a report on the United States' human rights situation on Tuesday. The report, titled ‘Human Rights Record of the United States in 2017,’ was released by the Information Office of the State Council.” (BTW, China does not issue a report to cover “nearly 200 countries and territories.”)So, we can take a look at the human rights situation of the US -- a nation where “every person is endowed with inalienable rights.”As pointed out in the “Human Rights Record of the United States in 2017,”“Looking back on the year of 2017, even those with the slightest sense of righteousness will find that the human rights record of the United States itself remained tarnished and showed a continued deterioration tendency.-- On the evening of October 1, 2017, almost 60 people were killed and over 800 injured in a mass shooting in Las Vegas, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. History.-- In August 2017, some white supremacists rallied in Charlottesville, chanting Nazi slogans in the ‘largest hate gathering in decades.’-- According to reports on The Atlantic website and New York Times website, several polls of American scholars revealed that most of the respondents believed that quality of democracy in the United States had been plateauing for decades, and that American democracy is drowning in money.-- A research from Martin Gilens, a politics professor at Princeton University, showed that American economic policies over the last 40 years ‘strongly reflect the preferences of the most affluent, but bear virtually no relationship to the preferences of poor or middle-income Americans.’-- A study from the U.S. National Registry of Exonerations released on March 7, 2017 showed that black Americans were about seven times more likely to be wrongfully convicted of murder than white Americans. When it comes to drug crimes, black Americans are about 12 times more likely to be wrongfully convicted than innocent white people. Black male offenders received sentences on average 19.1 percent longer than those of ‘similarly situated’ white male offenders.-- The Economic Policy Institute released a report on February 13, 2017, saying that the average wealth for white families is seven times higher than average wealth for black families and that median white wealth is twelve times higher than median black wealth. More than one in four black households had zero or negative net worth.-- According to websites of The Guardian and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in December 2017, 52.3 million Americans lived in ‘economically distressed communities’ and 18.5 million were living in deep poverty.-- A report of BBC on December 11, 2017 said that of those living in poverty in the United States, there were about 13.3 million children – 18 percent of those under the age of 18. The U.S. Urban Institute statistics revealed that nearly 9 million children in the United States (11.8 percent of American children) would grow up in persistently poor families.”So, you see, just like our human beings, I have my own problems, and you have yours. If I am a reasonable and well-bred person, I would thank you for pointing out my deficiencies and then I might try my best to overcome those I can. But there is no need for you, who are not my parents, not my brothers and sisters, not my teachers......but a nobody to me, to come up and point your fingers on me and criticize and force me to make changes, and even threaten to take certain actions against me if I do not follow your instructions, right?On the human rights issue, as a Chinese, I thank all those nations with good will to improve our conditions (and indeed they have been of some help in this regard), but as for those with a covered, or evil agenda behind, please go back to mind your own business -- your own people need you more!