美國新冠疫情日記07/08/2020

We Cannot Swim Against The Tide Of History

The U.S. government announced yesterday a temporary exemption for non-immigrant students taking online classes due to the coronavirus pandemic. Starting with the Fall 2020 semester,  F-1 and M-1 student attending schools operating entirely online may not take a full online course load and remain in the United States. The State Department will not issue visas to student enrolled in schools that are fully online.

At the same time, the White House also announced that the U.S. government has formally withdrawn from the World Health Organization.

We are so angry and don’t understand why at such a critical pandemic time we are cutting ties with and getting out of WHO! The coronavirus is a worldwide problem. We still have our own people suffering all over the country. We can blame other countries, but this is almost six months of suffering with the virus and the federal government has no effective measure to stop it. We should work with WHO and the all countries to find a solution. Not just abandon and leave. Is this the America that is still the leader of the world? We have almost reached close to three million confirmed cases now and what are we going to do?

We need your support to write a letter to the White House, to sign a petition to our government to express our anger and anxiety.

Dear Brothers and Sisters -This is the time we all need to wake up. We cannot swim against the tide of history.

           我們走在曆史的逆流  反對驅返留美學生

聯邦國土安全部昨日宣佈，在美國留學及已獲得F1 學生簽證之所有外國學生，如果上的是網路課程之大學，他們將被驅逐回國，得到簽證者也無法來美，在此同時，川普政府也正式照會聯合國，美國將從即日起退出世界衛生組織。

這些舉措讓我們質問這種毫無人道的做法，我們還是人權自由的國家嗎？

在我們的群體中，許多人都是經由留學方式到了美國，在此落葉生根，奉獻終生，我們對美國科技、經濟帶來的貢獻是巨大的，今天政府要實施這種趕盡殺絕之殺手锏，我們是堅決反對。

在同一時間，川普總統也正式宣布美國要退出聯合國屬下的國際衛生組織，在此世界各國遭到新冠病毒虐肆之時， 這項決定到底是爲什麽？我們已經有近叁百萬人感染，未來之人數一定更多，十多萬人喪命，難道他們不是我們的同胞兄弟姐妹嗎？這種毫無人性又拿不出對策的政府，難道我們還能忍受嗎？

我們呼籲大家向白宮表達憤怒和不滿，也更希望大家簽名致電白宮，表達對海內海外留學生之支持，大家更要體認到事態之嚴重性，我們決不能走在曆史的逆流中。