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Attack on the virus or attack on China?

2020-02-08T03:19:17.236Z


[OPINION] Pedro Brieger: And how many people remember that in 2009 alone in the United States the epidemic of the H1N1 virus affected more than 50 million people and killed more than 12,000?


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Editor's Note: Pedro Brieger is an Argentine journalist and sociologist, author of more than seven books and contributor to publications on international issues. He currently serves as director of NODAL, a portal dedicated exclusively to the news of Latin America and the Caribbean. He collaborated with different national media such as Clarín, El Cronista, La Nación, Página / 12, Profile and for magazines such as News, Somos, Le Monde Diplomatique and Panorama. Throughout his career, Brieger won important awards for his informative work on Argentine radio and television. The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author.

(CNN Spanish) - With the appearance of the coronavirus, a kind of collective hysteria was installed in the media outside the People's Republic of China, as if this virus was going to flood the planet.

Since an alert issued by the World Health Organization is always a touch of attention, it seems, however, that in this case there are many other things at stake and it is hard to believe that the economic dispute between Washington and Beijing does not fly.

President Donald Trump often says that China has taken advantage of his country for decades and reiterated it during his speech on the state of the Union on February 4.

In tune with this thought and without delicacy, the US Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, said that following the appearance of the coronavirus many jobs would return to his country. As expected, this comment was not well received in China and the official Xinhua news agency, which usually transmits the voice of the government, called it "insensitive."

It is still curious that the possible, although uncertain, expansion of this new virus now generates so much panic in the world when there are numerous contagious diseases that have affected more people. Especially in the United States, the very first world power, where the influenza virus this season affected more than 19 million people, causing the death of at least 10,000, although Trump did not even mention it in his speech when he referred to the protection of the health of the citizenry.

And how many people remember that in 2009 alone in the United States the epidemic of the H1N1 virus affected more than 50 million people and killed more than 12,000?

Despite these data, which are public, there was not and there is no international campaign not to step on American soil.

Perhaps some people should remember that already in the New Testament they were alerted to look at the straw in their eyes as much as having a beam in their own.

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Source: cnnespanol

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