Fox host hits new low on politicizing illness

Folks put on face masks as they stroll down a road in Flushing space of Queens on Monday in New York Metropolis. Photograph: AFP

Fox Information host Jesse Watters blatantly requested the Chinese language for “a proper apology” as a result of “this coronavirus originated in China.” His cohost requested, “What if the outbreak had began right here [the US]?” Watters asserted that the epidemic began in China. He even acknowledged in his present, “They’re very hungry individuals. The Chinese language communist authorities can not feed the individuals, and they’re determined. This meals is raw. It is unsafe, and that’s the reason scientists consider that is the place it originated.” These remarks make him seem like a hooligan.

The Communist Social gathering of China “can not feed the individuals” in order that Chinese language haven’t any selection however to eat “uncooked bats and snakes.” Is that this how a well-liked American host sees China? Watters’ full and utter nonsense on the TV present makes individuals marvel how distorted US public opinion is in opposition to China. Evidently if one scolds China, he doesn’t have to beat his brains or use widespread sense in any respect; he can discuss as robust as he desires of China with out being held accountable.

Think about {that a} Chinese language host demanded a proper apology from the US individuals on a TV present after the 2009 H1N1 flu unfold to the world from the US, or after AIDS, a illness reportedly first tracked in North America, turned a worldwide epidemic. Not to mention how the US and the worldwide neighborhood would reply, might the Chinese language public settle for his efficiency?

Viruses are a standard enemy of human beings. They might invade individuals’s lives at any time. It has not but been decided the place and the way the novel coronavirus originated from. This can be a scientific query which ought to by no means be politicized or taken as an ideological problem.

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Watters, one of the vital radical TV hosts on this problem, is a shame to your entire worldwide press circle.

The world noticed the outbreak of the epidemic in Wuhan and the way the Chinese language individuals had been mobilized and paid monumental efforts to struggle the virus. The Chinese language individuals have put the epidemic beneath management at an enormous price and gained the world time to arrange. China’s angle and motion are respectable. China not solely contained the unfold of the virus, but in addition supplied a helpful lesson for the world.

Now that the epidemic is hitting the world, it’s time all international locations joined arms to fight it. However Watters misled the general public by turning a public well being problem right into a battle between international locations.

He demanded China apologize and labeled the epidemic with Chinese language cultural and political scoundrelism. By the identical token, ought to the Chinese language individuals complain about international locations which didn’t handle to comprise the unfold of the virus even after China sounded the alarm? Ought to the Chinese language individuals accuse their systematic flaws and blame these international locations for exporting contaminated circumstances again to China and dragging down China’s ft?

It’s shameful Watters provoked such conflicts at a time when humanity is dealing with a standard problem.

The malicious act of Fox Information and Watters, pushed by their selfishness, is the adverse vitality within the international anti-epidemic struggle. The novel coronavirus respects no race or border. Solely narrow-minded nationalists and people with ulterior motives would assault a sure nation by exploiting this public well being disaster.

As Philippine International Secretary Teodoro Locsin stated in a tweet, “we should deplore the lies unfold by govts and people who find themselves stooping so low as to make use of a menace in opposition to all humanity as an instrument of geopolitical technique. Disgrace on them.”