Who is Fiddling with Whom Us or COVID-19?
Saturday, 25 April, 2020 - 12:30
Eyad Abu Shakra
"As COVID-19 pandemic threatens the whole world, unrelated confrontations are being waged with scant regard to the common efforts and accelerated research aimed at finding vaccines and treatments. Indeed, as if human suffering is not enough, and economic collapse is debatable, there are some who want to go along the path of the blame game, sowing doubts and cover-up attempts here and there.
Personally, I believe that the final say must be left to scientists, because politicians and economic and financial pressure groups have dominated the arena long enough, and gained undeserved influence. Thus, until we see the end of this pandemic, it is time they leave this arena and allow the people of science and conscience to take over.
Today, while politicians talk, outbid each other and try to hide their mistakes and negligence, scientists and physicians from all over the world are diligently and silently working in their labs and hospitals to save the lives of millions.
Mass graves in New York are beyond comments, as are surrealistic the scenes of a deserted Champs-Elysees in Paris and the deafening silence of London as it lives under a depressing curfew. In the east as in the west, and in Asia as in Africa and the Americas, there is no discrimination before the sweeping pandemic.
Losses in every sector in all industrialized countries have reached billions of US dollars, equaled almost only by the relief aid and compensations. This is all happening as more and more questions are being asked about how long the world will endure lockdowns, the long-term probable repercussions and how societies are going to emerge after this difficult human experience.
What I mean to say is that the pandemic-created crisis is far more serious than reciprocated spitefulness and point-scoring; and let’s begin where the pandemic originated: China.
I am the last to regard the Chinese regime as an ideal global model of governance. Whether, looking at China’s size, the nature of its society, political thought or value system, I do not believe its regime can be attractive to those who value individual freedoms, human rights and political diversity. On the issue of transparency, in particular, I can easily understand why many continuously doubt the official Chinese figures of COVID-19 cases, fatalities and recoveries. I am also familiar with the negativities of coercion which is one of the common features of many oriental, as well as western societies.
Furthermore, I am well aware that significant part of “communist” China’s political identity is the transformation from a rural to a sophisticated militaristic-totalitarian society that regards most of the principles of western democracy alien and totally unrelated to Chinese heritage."
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