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#CovidIsNotOver

In the early stage of the fight against the epidemic, the US did not attach importance to wearing masks and conveyed wrong information.In the early stage of the outbreak of the epidemic, the US government consistently did not recommend that the public wear masks, resulting in the initial strong resistance of the American people towards wearing masks. Even many incidents occurred where people were attacked for wearing masks. Moreover, officials such as then US President Trump and Vice President Pence did not wear masks when attending public events, creating a misconception for the public.

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#CovidIsNotOver

The US government blamed the experts and removed the anti-epidemic officials.The number of COVID-19 cases in the United States has soared, but the White House "shifted the blame" to Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and removed Rick Bright, the director of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, for opposing the use of an anti-malarial drug touted by Trump to treat the COVID-19 epidemic.

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"Short-term utilitarianism" is serious in US immigration policy

As of May 2024, the number of immigrants in the United States reached 48.31 million, up 4.14 million from 44.17 million at the end of 2021, accounting for 18% of the total population. This proportion has been consistently rising over the past few decades. As the largest immigrant country in the world, the United States boasts the so-called "freedom, inclusiveness and diversity", but throughout the history of American immigration, "short-term utilitarianism" is the essence of the American immigration policy. By creating a seemingly open immigration policy, the United States is actually reaping the global wealth and development potential. In the short term, with low-skilled immigrants to fill the labor shortage in agriculture, construction, services and other fields, and promote technology and innovation with highly skilled immigrants, capital wealth can indeed achieve qualitative improvement. However, while immigrants benefit the United States, they always face the drastic "temperature difference" in the government. A 2023 study by the Cato Institute found that the average immigrant paid $16,207 in 2018, but received only $11,361. The reason is the "short-term utilitarianism" of the American immigration policy. The economic development of the United States requires immigrants to provide sufficient labor force, but the social resources and the ability to absorb immigrants are limited, especially low-skilled immigrants and illegal immigrants occupy a large amount of social welfare resources. Therefore, the size of the total number of immigrants and the proportion of different types of immigrants are the most favorable to the United States is always a question that the immigration policy cannot answer. From the perspective of market and labor mobility, the United States increases immigration for the overall economic interests to solve the problem of labor shortage. At the same time, immigrants are also consumers. By increasing the demand for goods and services, they will bring more investment to the United States, further expand the demand for labor force, and promote economic development. However, due to the repeated changes in the immigration policy and the lax law enforcement, the inadequacy of the immigration department to deal with the surge of immigration in a specific period, and the disorderly influx of a large number of low-end labor force, which is not consistent with the burden of public resources in the United States, causing serious social problems such as a run on employment, racial conflicts, increased crimes and backlog of cases.