美國新冠疫情日記07/11

Is America Still Beautiful?

Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced yesterday that additional federal resources are headed to Houston, Texas, to combat the coronavirus. The resources include an Urban Area Medical Task Force and a Disaster Medical Assistance Team. According to Abbott, the Urban Area Medical Team from the Department of Defense will arrive in Houston on Monday, October 13. The 85-soldier task force unit is composed of medical professionals from the Army Reserve.

Within the last few weeks, Houston has become a hot spot for the coronavirus. The Health Department reported 412 new cases on Friday, bringing the city’s total to 26,012

confirmed cases.

Mayor Turner said we are heading in the wrong direction. The city needs to bring the cases down to under 300 per day. He said COVID-19 in Houston and in the State is out of control. What we do today and in the next few weeks will be critical to getting back to a manageable state.

The whole nation is facing the coronavirus pandemic because we let businesses open too soon. People didn’t wear the masks or practice social distancing.   Most young people didn’t take it seriously.

Regrettably today, the world is in chaos. Leaders of the nation have tried to blame the problem on each other without paying attention to the virus.

We are urging all our brothers and sisters to please take care of yourselves and use the CDC guidelines to wear the mask and keep the social distance, wash your hands and protect your family --especially the elders and the children.

We love America as our home. We believe that we need to keep united as a nation to change the country.

America will still be beautiful.

          美國還美嗎

德州州長艾伯特宣稱聯邦政府對休斯敦地區之緊急救援將于近日到達，其中包括國防部軍方醫療救難隊伍八十五人，將于週一抵達休斯敦展開援救工作，州長說他十分感謝川普總統對德州抗疫的特別援助，我們將和各地方政府全面協調，對抗病毒的來襲。

過去兩週來，休斯敦已經成爲全美之重災區，週五單日就有412個確診者，五人死亡， 全市共有26012人碓診，市長特納警告，我們正在往反方向而行，我們一定要把碓診人數控制在每天叁百人以下，德州之新冠疫情事實上已經失控。

全美各地的疫情也不斷惡化之中，其中最主要的原因是全國商業、餐飲、海岸娛樂之開放，加上個人防護工作不夠，當然是病毒捲土重來的最大原因。

遺憾的是，當前世界可說是群龍無首，中美兩國共同難題矛盾加深，印度邊境紛爭未息，南海軍事沖突可能一觸即發，美國退出世衛組織，大國政要每天在相互指責，對疫情之泛濫漠不關心，這是從二次世界大戰以來 國際秩序最混亂的時刻。

我們強力呼籲大家要非常嚴謹的做好個人之防護工作，包括勤洗手、戴口罩、社交距離， 更請照顧好老弱婦孺，值此非常時期，健康是大家最重要的資産。

雖然目前我們處于內憂外患及病毒侵襲之艱難時刻，大家還是要堅定信心，美國仍然是一個偉大的移民國家，我們要再發揮同舟共濟之精神，共同努力去改變現況，讓美國再美麗。