思政课 | 重磅！人民日报十问，美国必须回答！
来源：人民日报 2020-4-30
100天，逾百万。自1月20日确诊首例新冠病例至今的100多天时间里，美国确诊病例数从1例增至100万例以上，成为全球新冠确诊和死亡病例最多的国家。美国国内疫情形势严峻，但一些美国政客却不把精力用在抗疫上，而是忙着造谣抹黑、到处“甩锅”。然而这不仅无法转嫁责任，反而进一步暴露出美国疫情防控中的重重疑点，引发了外界的种种质疑。关于疫情的这10个问号，美国政府有责任有义务回答清楚，给全世界一个交代。
1.禽流感病毒改造去年突然重启，之后无声无息，为什么？
2.美军生物实验室一度关闭停产，真相是什么？
3.去年传染病演习情景今年真实上演，真的只是巧合？
4.提前预测疫情大流行又无视警告情报，为什么？
5.有多少流感患者感染的其实是新冠肺炎，能不能说清楚？
6.新冠病毒到底什么时候在美国出现？社区传播是否早已开始？
7.全球首个启动新冠疫苗人体试验，这么快是怎么拿到毒株的？
8.政府说疫情不严重，官员却在狂抛股票，为什么？
9.不许美国专家学者随意公开谈论新冠病毒，是想干什么？
10.海外生物实验室到底在做什么研究，为什么从不向外界透露？
The Science reported in February 2019 that US authorities had quietly approved the avian influenza virus modification experiment. The research, aiming to transform the H5N1 virus to be more capable of infecting mammals, was controversial and considered extremely dangerous. Some experts believe that the modification may increase the risk of human-to-human transmission of the virus.
The question is why the US government decided to unfreeze the experiment 4 years after it was halted, and why there are no more updates regarding the experiment.
The Global Biodefence reported in April that the USAMRIID, US Army's primary institution and facility for biological research headquartered in Fort Detrick, Maryland, has resumed full operation. The institution was once ordered to halt the study of biological select agents and toxins (BSATs) last July. In March, there was a petition on the White House website demanding the clarification of the shutdown of USAMRIID. Given that these issues have become a primary public concern, what is the US government's response?
In March, the New York Times quoted a draft report obtained from the US government saying that from January to August 2019, the US Department of Health and Human Services ran a scenario called "Crimson Contagion" that simulated the fictional outbreak involving a group of tourists visiting China. They then became infected and flew to various countries, including the US.
Last October, a high-level pandemic exercise named Event 201 was hosted by a couple of US organizations. The drill simulated a scenario that a fictional virus called CAPS, which causes more severe symptoms than SARS and transmits via the respiratory route like the common flu, had caused a pandemic. Like COVID-19, there is no vaccine for CAPS.
Given the fact that the simulated virus is so much like COVID-19, is this just a coincidence? Another question is, why did it not take enough preventive measures at the early stages of the coronavirus outbreak since the US has predicted a similar pandemic?
In April, according to the American Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), it was said that, as early as late November 2019, US intelligence officials had warned the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Pentagon, and the White House that an infectious disease was sweeping through Wuhan, China.
Last November, the US National Center for Medical Intelligence (NCMI) issued a report detailing the coronavirus pandemic, which was later identified as "COVID-19". Some analysts believed that the outbreak in Wuhan might have evolved into a catastrophic event. According to the Washington Post, in more than two months from January to February, Trump had received intensive warnings from the US intelligence agencies about the coronavirus. Why did the US government not declare a "National Emergency" until March 13?
Japanese Asahi Television reported on February 21 that some of the 14,000 people reportedly killed by influenza in the US might have died from coronavirus, which became a hot topic soon after.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a report at the end of February, showing that there have been at least 32 million flu illnesses in the US that winter.
On March 11, at the House of Representatives, Robert Redfield, the director of the US CDC, admitted that some in the US who were previously thought to have been killed from the flu may have been infected with coronavirus.
Among the reported influenza deaths in the US, how many cases were infected with COVID-19? Did the US government cover up the spread of coronavirus with the flu? When will the US government make public the samples of the US influenza virus and its genetic sequence, or allow experts from the WHO or the United Nations to sample and analyze?
A report released in late April by local health authorities suggests that a 57-year-old woman from Santa Clara County of California died from COVID-19 on February 6, some 20 days earlier than the date the US announced its first death caused by the virus.
The Los Angeles Times quoted Santa Clara County health officer Sara Cody in a piece saying, "we presume that each of them represents community transmission and that there was some significant level of virus circulating in our community in early February."
County Executive Officer Jeffrey V. Smith said this is evidence that the coronavirus was circulating in California as early as January or even earlier.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has ordered all counties in the state to review autopsies of suspected coronavirus deaths dating back to December.
When did the novel coronavirus first appear in the US? Did community transmission of the coronavirus start sooner than it was reported?
The Wall Street Journal on March 16 reported that the first human testing of Moderna Inc.'s experimental vaccine against the COVID-19 had already begun. Experts immediately raised questions about the speed of the vaccine development, saying that it would not be possible unless the US had obtained the virus strains from very early on. So how did the US start the first human testing of the vaccine so soon? When and how did they get the virus strains?
According to the Washington Post, US Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr and his wife sold up to 1.7 million in 33 different stocks just one week before the market plunged. Why did these officials at the Committee act so quickly while the government was continually understating the pandemic?
Why is the vital information kept confidential to the public while the government officials were taking advantage to practice insider-trading?
The New York Times reported that the White House began tightening controls for all coronavirus messaging from health officials on February 27 after Vice President Mike Pence led the nation's epidemic prevention and control efforts.
Several scientists and government health officials, including the nation's leading infectious disease expert Anthony S. Fauci, have been asked to make statements or make public appearances about the COVID-19 only after consultation with the US vice president's office.
Why does the United States, which claims free speech, not allow experts and scholars to discuss the novel coronavirus in public? Does the US want to hide something or fear of something?
Natalia Poklonskaya, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Foreign Affairs, has proposed verifying the legitimacy of US biological laboratories around the world, according to Sputnik news agency.
Not long ago, a spokesman for the Russian Foreign Ministry expressed concern about the establishment of a biological laboratory in countries from the former Soviet Union.
Grigory Trofimchuk, a Russian expert in the field of internal affairs, foreign affairs, and national defense, said the work of these biological laboratories was never disclosed to the outside world, and that they had caused several problems, with widespread outbreaks of dangerous infectious diseases such as measles at the laboratory site.
What research is being done in these biological laboratories? Why does the US keep tight-lipped about the function, use, the safety of these biological laboratories?
在十大追问下，美国欠世界的
已不止是一个答案了……
还有中国外交天团
本周火力全开，连发数十问
美国必须回答
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华春莹：两怼蓬佩奥，三问纳瓦罗
“为什么不请美国专家去查明新冠病毒最早在美国何地开始出现的呢？”
4月29日中午，外交部发言人华春莹在推特上发出此问，并强调“美国人民需要答案，世界也有权知情”。
从推文所配图片可以看出，华春莹反问的对象正是美国国务卿蓬佩奥——他近日又在推特上煽风点火，声称应该对中国展开调查。
▲华春莹反击蓬佩奥推特截图
这已经是本周华春莹在推特上第二次直接点名回击蓬佩奥。
上一次是在4月27日，针对蓬佩奥在福克斯新闻频道上指责中国隐瞒疫情的论调，华春莹发推直接反问：到底是谁在散布假消息？共和党参议院全国委员会和“灰色地带”（美国一家独立新闻网站）披露得还不够清楚吗？
华春莹这一问，指向的正是此前被美媒爆出的“反华备忘录”，这份长达57页的备忘录由美国共和党参议院全国委员会炮制，用以“指导”各竞选机构，让他们用各种“套路”攻击中国。
怼完蓬佩奥，当晚华春莹推特又对纳瓦罗连发三问：“这是著名的‘罗恩·瓦拉’说的吗？假检测试剂盒？囤积个人防护装备？”
此三问针对的，是纳瓦罗近日又一谬论，他指责中国向美国出口“假冒伪劣检测试剂”以及趁疫情“牟取暴利”。
▲华春莹反击纳瓦罗推特截图
反击推文中，华春莹选择用数字说话，她指出，中方与美方有关机构在抗疫物资出口方面进行了良好合作，出口产品质量符合美国标准，3月1日至4月24日，中国已向美国提供了约35亿个口罩、3亿副手套以及5800多台呼吸机。
过去一周，华春莹共发出17条推特，其中“涉美”话题占到半数以上，可谓“火力全开”。
耿爽抛出“1+3连珠炮问”：请美国回答
如果说华春莹是“线上发问”，那么在外交部蓝厅的耿爽是“线下”直面外媒记者的偏见和质疑。耿爽对美国的发问，主要集中在27日的记者会上。
当天，耿爽同样提及美国共和党参议院全国委员会炮制的“反华备忘录”，他应询指出，美方口口声声说“中方散布虚假信息”，如果报道属实，我们不禁要问：到底是谁在散布虚假信息？
同日，他还“借力打力”，以三连问总结了美媒一些报道中出现的质疑，包括疫情到底最早何时在美国出现？美国政府是否隐瞒了什么？为什么急着向其他国家和国际组织“甩锅”？
“在这些问题上，我们希望美国政府能够及时回应本国人民和国际社会的关切，是否也可以请世卫组织协助调查。”他强调。
▲4月27日，耿爽主持外交部例行记者会。（外交部网站）
事实上，从线上到线下的互动，耿爽与华春莹两位外交部发言人之间还有其他“互文”与联动。例如29日华春莹的反问推文中提到“罗恩·瓦拉”，想必很多人都会问，这人是谁？
答案就在4月28日的耿爽于例行记者上的表态中。当天耿爽指出，去年多家美媒披露，纳瓦罗曾在自己的多部书作中引用所谓专业人士“罗恩·瓦拉”的言论来批评攻击中国，但其实这个人根本不存在，后来，纳瓦罗本人也不得不公开承认自己虚构了这名“反华专家”，令国际社会大跌眼镜，感到震惊。
一场采访，外交部副部长抛出13个问号
28日，外交部副部长乐玉成接受美国全国广播公司（NBC）资深记者马静（Janis Mackey Frayer）专访。在这场采访中，乐玉成13次以反问回答美国记者的提问。
▲4月28日，外交部副部长乐玉成接受美国全国广播公司电视专访。（外交部网站）
例如被问及中国是否支持展开针对病毒源头的国际调查时，乐玉成以四连问给出回答：
“开展国际调查要有依据。为什么这个调查只针对中国？有什么证据表明中国存在问题？为什么不去其他国家开展调查？如果要反思，从科学角度看，有的国家出现那么多确诊病例、死亡病例和扩散病例，这其中难道没有问题吗？……”
而当说到美国指责中国疫情初期反应不及时，乐玉成列数据指出：1月23日武汉“封城”时美国只有一个病例。到3月13日美国宣布进入国家紧急状态时，确诊病例达到1600多例。
随后乐玉成再次连续发问：“这能怪中国反应慢吗？时间都去哪里了？”
当中国外交官持续发问，同样的问题，也在白宫疫情简报会、美国媒体乃至互联网上引发讨论。例如社交媒体上，越来越多的外国网友正在认识到美国政府一系列做法的问题所在。
来源：人民日报，参考消息