英美還想“甩鍋”中國?《南華早報》專欄作家:你們揮霍了中國為世界贏得的時間

4月8日,《南華早報》發表了一篇由該報專欄作家撰寫的題為《為什麼中國不需要為疫情負責》的文章,其中提到,中國政府對疫情中心城市武漢實施了嚴格的封鎖,為世界贏得了時間,但許多國家,尤其是英國和美國卻浪費了時間。

英美还想“甩锅”中国?《南华早报》专栏作家:你们挥霍了中国为世界赢得的时间

文章開頭,作者盧綱(Alex Lo)提到了《華爾街日報》之前發表的《真正的“亞洲病夫”》一文,稱當時世界上許多人都和這篇文章的觀點一樣無知和短視。

“ 2月初,《華爾街日報》刊登了國際政治學教授沃爾特·羅素·米德發表的臭名昭著的輿論文章,題為‘真正的亞洲病夫’。如果你現在再讀它,你會發現它對科學的無知遠比它的‘分析’更扎眼。”

In early February, The Wall Street Journal published the by-now infamous opinion piece titled “The real sick man of Asia”, by Walter Russell Mead, an international politics professor.If you read it now, its scientific ignorance is far more illuminating than its “analysis”.

盧綱表示,米德教授對流行病學的瞭解,和出租車司機沒什麼兩樣。

“但這是全世界許多人都認同的短視觀點:他們認為新冠疫情主要是中國的問題,然而,醫學權威機構們當時就知道這將是一個全球性的問題。”

But it was a myopia shared by many people around the world: they thought the epidemic was mainly China’s problem. Medical authorities, though, knew by then that it would be a global problem.

“要是中國早點告訴,我們就會及時反應”

“不,你們不會!”

近日,一些西方國家政客繼續發表“甩鍋”言論,指責中國“隱瞞疫情”耽誤了他們的防控時機。《南華早報》這篇文章一針見血地戳破真相:“實際上,他們有時間準備,但他們沒有做。”

“為了逃避責任,英美領導人如英國內閣大臣邁克爾·戈夫、美國國務卿邁克·蓬佩奧和總統唐納德·特朗普現在一直聲稱:‘如果中國早點告訴我們,要是中國沒有謊報他們的疫情,我們會及時作出回應。’ ”

In trying to evade responsibility, British and American political leaders such as British cabinet minister Michael Gove, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and President Donald Trump are now claiming: if only China had told us earlier, if only they hadn’t lied about their cases, we would have responded in time.

“事實上他們不會這樣做,也沒有這樣做。他們有時間準備,但選擇不做。”

No, they would not have, and in fact, did not. They had time to prepare but chose not to.

文章指出,疫情發生後,中國第一時間向世界衛生組織報告了疫情。

“截至12月31日,中國政府已向世界衛生組織通報了此次疫情;到1月23日,武漢實施了前所未有的封鎖;到今年1月,全世界都知道了中國新冠疫情的嚴重性。”

By December 31, Beijing had informed the World Health Organisation about the outbreak. By January 23, an unprecedented lockdown was imposed in Wuhan. Whatever cover-ups and concealment of cases China was guilty of, by January, the entire world knew about the severity of the Chinese epidemic.

然而,西方國家卻自己不重視,浪費了時間。文章援引《紐約時報》關於西班牙的疫情報道稱,許多國家特別是英國和美國,和西班牙一樣都存在忽視病毒的情況。

What The New York Times wrote about Spain is equally true of many countries, notably Britain and the United States.

英美还想“甩锅”中国?《南华早报》专栏作家:你们挥霍了中国为世界赢得的时间

3月8日,西班牙政府允許約12萬人聚集在馬德里慶祝國際婦女節,圖源:法新社

“西班牙的危機表明,該病毒的症狀之一…就是傾向讓一個接一個的國家忽視別國的經歷,而那些國家已經遭到了病毒的襲擊。”

“Spain’s crisis has demonstrated that one symptom of the virus … has been the tendency of one government after another to ignore the experiences of countries where the virus has struck before it.”

最新研究:紐約疫情的爆發起源於歐洲

疫情發生以來,一些國際政客屢屢將新冠病毒稱為“武漢病毒”,指責中國前期沒控制疫情導致蔓延全球。

然而,《南華早報》文章提到,《科學》雜誌發表的一項國際研究表明,中國封鎖武漢,使得向外部輸出的病例減少了77%。

...locking down Wuhan cut the number of coronavirus cases exported to the outside world by 77 per cent, according to an international study that was led by Matteo Chinazzi of the Laboratory at Northeastern University in Boston and published in Science.

最近,《紐約時報》的一篇報道指出,有研究表明,紐約疫情的爆發起源於歐洲,而不是中國。

英美还想“甩锅”中国?《南华早报》专栏作家:你们挥霍了中国为世界赢得的时间

4月8日,《紐約時報》發文稱,“新的研究表明,新冠病毒在2月中旬就已經開始在紐約地區傳播,這比該區出現首例確診病例的日期早了幾周,而且病毒主要是由歐洲的旅客帶入,並非來自亞洲。”

New research indicates that the coronavirus began to circulate in the New York area by mid-February, weeks before the first confirmed case, and that it was brought to the region mainly by travelers from Europe, not Asia.

西奈山伊坎醫學院的遺傳學家哈姆·範·巴克爾是其中一項研究的作者之一,他對《紐約時報》表示,“大多數顯然是來自歐洲”。

“The majority is clearly European,” said Harm van Bakel, a geneticist at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

來自紐約大學格羅斯曼醫學院的另一個獨立研究團隊通過研究另一組病例也得出了相似結論,兩個研究團隊從3月中旬開始分析取自紐約感染病例體內的新冠病毒的基因組。

A separate team at N.Y.U. Grossman School of Medicine came to strikingly similar conclusions, despite studying a different group of cases. Both teams analyzed genomes from coronaviruses taken from New Yorkers starting in mid-March.

這項研究還顯示,如果能夠早點實施積極的檢測,可能病毒的隱蔽傳播就已經被發現了。

The research revealed a previously hidden spread of the virus that might have been detected if aggressive testing programs had been put in place.

該報道指出,3月11日,美國對大多數歐洲國家實施旅行禁令,但是紐約人此前“已經帶著病毒回家了”。

英美还想“甩锅”中国?《南华早报》专栏作家:你们挥霍了中国为世界赢得的时间

4月6日,美國紐約醫護人員將患者遺體送往臨時冷藏車 圖源:新華社

紐約州是美國疫情最嚴重的地區,4月8日,紐約州新增死亡病例779例,目前確診病例已經超過15萬。

正如《南華早報》文章的結尾所說,中國為世界贏得了時間,而許多國家的政府卻揮霍了它。

China bought time for the world; many governments squandered it.

實習生:蘇娟、鄭可意


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