Qi Chen ASA002 A04 week1

Thursday, April 4, 2020

Qi Chen,

ASA 002 A04 

Week 1 Blog

The Reflection of Coronavirus

As a Chinese, I have been focusing on coronavirus since January 2020. From the beginning, when I saw the news of coronavirus in the United States, I kept calling my family to sterilize and wear masks. They didn't think so at that time. A month later, when China lock down the city, everyone wore masks and was not allowed to leave home, everyone's travel plans were canceled, and the only chance that many Chinese had expected to be reunited with their families in a year disappeared. Today, April 4, is the annual Tomb-sweeping Day in China. However, April 4, 2020, is different from the previous Tomb-sweeping Festival: Chinese people not only pay tribute to their lost families but also mourn for the medical staff who died in the fighting against coronavirus. 

Wenliang Li, an ophthalmologist in Wuhan, China, is remembered by all Chinese in this period.  On December 30, 2019, Li released a piece of information about the epidemic situation of the seafood market in South China. As early as four months ago, when he found that the patient's pneumonia was different from that in previous experience, he reminded the Wuhan Central Hospital to pay attention to this issue. However, he was warned and admonished by the local police station for "publishing false information on the Internet." All of this is dramatic. Li's point of view is not wrong, and the warning he brought to people did not attract people's attention, making the spread of the virus more intense. On January 10, Li Wenliang had cough and fever after encountered a viral pneumonia patient with unknown cause and was infected, and then the disease became serious. From the late-night of February 6 to the early morning of February 7, the news about Dr. Li Wenliang's death kept mentioned on the social platform. Chinese worried about the life and death of this young doctor, who mourned the fall of a front-line anti-epidemic fighter. 

(Coronavirus Live Updates with Credible Sources in US and Canada, 2020)

We all remembered the voice of a doctor left to the world in his last time. In this period, there are too many stories to discuss. Doctor Li bought time for the Chinese people to remind people to pay attention to the virus, but people's negligence made things serious, and people from all walks of life were constantly defeated by the virus. Keqiang Li (2020) maintained that "A healthy society should not only have one kind of voice." People have to listen to different voices and learn from them. The rising death toll in China and the Chinese government's abandonment of the economic option of the lockdown the city did not call international attention, which led to more serious epidemics in Japan, South Korea, the United States, and Italy. When someone uses his own experience to warn others, only death can cause people's attention.

Question: Is it a denial of human rights that the government requires people to wear masks to protect themselves and others?

Reference

Bociurkiw, O. by M. (2020, February 11). China's hero doctor was punished for telling truth about coronavirus. Retrieved from https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/08/opinions/coronavirus-bociurkiw/index.html

COVID-19/Coronavirus Live Updates With Credible Sources in US and Canada. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/?from=singlemessage&isappinstalled=0