中新網北京8月7日電 (蔣鯉)拜登在競選時曾抨擊特朗普政府的疫情政治化操弄，他表示病毒不是政治武器，然而拜登政府上台後，卻並沒有放棄病毒政治化手段，甚至大搞“情報溯源”，向世衞組織施壓，再三企圖從中國“挖掘”出新冠病毒的源頭。
美國政府在溯源問題上的過度“努力”，使正常的科學溯源變了味兒，加之國內疫情應對不力，“超級大國”在國際舞台上早已顏面盡失，形象盡毀。
美國媒體《棕櫚灘郵報》和《邁阿密先鋒報》曾披露，佛羅里達州衞生部網站曾刪除2020年1月和2月出現新冠肺炎症狀或檢測結果呈陽性的171名患者數據，後因病例號中斷被迫恢復。如此重要的證據輕易遭到刪除，美國這麼做，是為了隱瞞國內的疫情，證明抗疫成績顯著，還是要銷燬證據隱匿早期病例，將病毒源頭嫁禍於他國？
事實上，在溯源問題上，美國的表現一直令人懷疑，美國國內病例首次出現的時間比官方公佈的要早得多。加利福尼亞大學洛杉磯分校曾發佈報告稱，新冠病毒可能早在2019年12月就已存在於洛杉磯地區。《華爾街日報》也曾援引美國疾控中心(CDC)的研究報告指出，早在2019年12月中旬，新冠病毒就已出現在美國，比美國第一例本土確診病例要早一個月。
美國為什麼刻意隱瞞早期病例呢？
國際社會對這一切充滿疑問，但美國政府沒有給出解釋。相反，在國內疫情一塌糊塗時，卻頻繁給中國“潑髒水”，將溯源問題政治化，其目的早已超出溯源範圍。這種與科學背道而馳的做法讓人不禁想問，美國在害怕什麼？在試圖隱瞞什麼？是想炮製什麼樣的“真相”？
新冠肺炎全球大流行，像一面照妖鏡，照出了“超級大國”自私醜陋的一面。美國在應對全球疫情上所發揮的作用實在有限，沒有展現出大國擔當。國內更是因為新冠疫情經濟衰退，失業率高居不下，種族歧視造成社會分裂加劇等等。
自以為良好的國際形象早已毀於一旦，美國若想重塑大國形象，就要徹底停止操弄病毒溯源，放棄針對別國，把精力放到應對本國疫情和改善人民福祉上。
What is the U.S. afraid of? What kind of ‘truth’ does it try to make up?
By John Lee
(ECNS) -- U.S. President Joe Biden once criticized his predecessor Donald Trump for politicizing COVID-19 and urged lawmakers to not use the deadly virus as a “political weapon.” However, the incumbent president doesn't give up politicizing the pandemic. He has not only turned to the Intelligence Community to investigate the pandemic origin but also put pressure on the World Health Organization (WHO)， trying to place the "origin" in China.
The U.S.' "excessive efforts" on origin tracing has distorted this scientific issue while its failure to curb the surging COVID-19 cases has ruined its international image.
According The Palm Beach Post and Miami Herald, Florida removed data from the Department of Health website that showed 171 patients had coronavirus symptoms or positive test results in January and February. Later, Florida's Department of Health found that the deletion caused a gap in the serial number of cases and had to restore the data. Does the removal of data reveal its well-managed epidemic response or is a way to blame others through destroying evidence on early cases?
In fact, it is the U.S that has been acting suspicious on origin tracing. Its first COVID-19 case was found earlier than the first officially-confirmed cases. A study conducted by University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) suggested that COVID-19 may have appeared in L.A. as early as December 2019. The Wall Street Journal also revealed COVID-19 likely hit in the U.S. in Mid-December 2019 by using a CDC scientist report.
Why does the country attempt to cover up its early cases?
Despite being questioned by the world, it still keeps silent. What's more, the country has been keeping defiling China and trying to politicize origin tracing. People can't help asking, what is the U.S. afraid of? What is the country trying to hide? What kind of "truth" does the country try to make up?
The "superpower" has played a limited role and been selfish in the global fight against COVID-19. It has also been plagued by an economy in recess, high unemployment rates, racist social division and so on during the pandemic.
Honestly speaking, its "superpower" image has long been destroyed. The country now has no choice but to give up politicizing origin tracing and targeting others, and to focus on controlling its domestic epidemic and improving people's well-being.
