美国新冠疫情日记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.

          美国还美吗

德州州长艾伯特宣称联邦政府对休斯敦地区之紧急救援将于近日到达，其中包括国防部军方医疗救难队伍八十五人，将于週一抵达休斯敦展开援救工作，州长说他十分感谢川普总统对德州抗疫的特别援助，我们将和各地方政府全面协调，对抗病毒的来袭。

过去两週来，休斯敦已经成为全美之重灾区，週五单日就有412个确诊者，五人死亡， 全市共有26012人碓诊，市长特纳警告，我们正在往反方向而行，我们一定要把碓诊人数控制在每天三百人以下，德州之新冠疫情事实上已经失控。

全美各地的疫情也不断恶化之中，其中最主要的原因是全国商业、餐饮、海岸娱乐之开放，加上个人防护工作不够，当然是病毒捲土重来的最大原因。

遗憾的是，当前世界可说是群龙无首，中美两国共同难题矛盾加深，印度边境纷争未息，南海军事冲突可能一触即发，美国退出世卫组织，大国政要每天在相互指责，对疫情之泛滥漠不关心，这是从二次世界大战以来 国际秩序最混乱的时刻。

我们强力呼吁大家要非常严谨的做好个人之防护工作，包括勤洗手、戴口罩、社交距离， 更请照顾好老弱妇孺，值此非常时期，健康是大家最重要的资产。

虽然目前我们处于内忧外患及病毒侵袭之艰难时刻，大家还是要坚定信心，美国仍然是一个伟大的移民国家，我们要再发挥同舟共济之精神，共同努力去改变现况，让美国再美丽。