Wu Jungang column
After the crown disease epidemic in Wuhan in China three years ago, the shortage of medical supplies for a while, and other countries reached out.On January 29, 2020, the HSK Affairs Bureau of the Japanese Chinese Teaching Examination Institution donated the box of the supplies and pasted the two slang words of "exotic mountains and rivers, wind and moon on the same day", which not only expressed the humanistic feelings of destiny and the common humanity, making the Chinese feelIt is extremely warm, and it also highlights that there are people in Japanese junior high schools, and some people who learn Chinese are not bad.
Chinese ancient poems, idioms, proverbs, etc. are all refined text, and they are profound. In just a few words, they can summarize the meaning of fullness and stir up the feelings of readers.Later, the crown disease epidemic gradually spread in other parts of the world. China, which basically controlled the epidemic, had the ability to donate medical supplies to the outside world. It also used verses such as "A Blue Mountains, and the Mingyue He used to be the two townships."
It is said that in the Tang Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago, when the prince of the long house in Japan was pro -government, he ordered people to make thousands of puppets and send the Tang envoys to the monks in China.There are four slang embroidered on these crickets: "The mountains and rivers are exotic, the wind and moon are the same;Master Jianzhen of the Tang Dynasty was moved by slang, and he was not afraid of hardships to cross Japan to promote the Dharma, and to broadcast seeds for friendly exchanges between China and Japan, and had a profound impact on Japan.So far, Master Jianzhen is still a household name; in the short four sentences (also a message), the power is unlimited.
A Qingshan two sentences are the works of the Tang Dynasty poet Wang Changling to send Chai Shi Yu. The original poem four sentences: "The waters of Lishui connected to Wugang, and the king was not injured.Two townships. "It is also a message from a farewell. Although it is different from the feelings of the Buddha, the meaning has similarities.
In origin, everyone was the Earthman, that is, the community of destiny, and should have helped each other. One side was difficult and the eight parties support.but it is not the truth.Human beings have never done this.Today in the 21st century, it is still constantly killing each other.People in different places have gaps with race, language, culture, religion, customs, etc. It is difficult to eliminate these gaps. Coupled with people with politics and ideology, they must experience that everyone is the community of destiny, and almost changes almost changes.It is impossible.
Don't say peaceful getting along with each other, even if you resist with each other.Crown disease is called the "century epidemic", which is the great plague of human beings in a century, and the global public health crisis.At present, the world's powers should focus on gathered forces and wisdom under the banner of the World Health Organization.But the actual situation is just the opposite.Major countries are competing for the first time to develop their own vaccines. They are all politics, and then degraded the vaccines of other countries to exaggerate the effectiveness of their own vaccines. Shortly after the vaccine came out, developed countries had to buy and hoard vaccines with their own financial resources.These strange moves are called "vaccine nationalism."
Nationalism has no derogatory, but it is obviously derogatory in the context of the vaccine. It refers to the unilateral selfishness of developed countries or the ability to develop vaccines.The behavior of doctrine runs counter to the multilateralism that should be in response to the epidemic.
The starting point of nationalism is based on the autonomy of the nation, focusing on protecting the interests and dignity of the nation, but it is also a problem to blindly engage in national pride.This is the case for vaccine nationalism, and it is not good for others.
First of all, the vaccine should be a public product, but it is regarded as a private property. Although it protects the people of the country to a certain extent, it has forgotten that in the Earth Village today, the virus spread can easily cross all borders.It is impossible for the country to block the border for a long time and be independent of the world.The virus is spreading other places. In the end, it will still suffer, because people around the world must be recovered after all, and the virus will inevitably move around with the flow of people.
Second, countries with the ability to develop vaccines can add some glory to themselves and swell themselves, but their behavior may not be respected.If you cherish your own vaccine broom and exclude other vaccines, it will also make people disgusted.
Vaccine nationalism, no matter what form, has become the biggest blockbuster of the world's anti -epidemic, and is the sorrow of all human beings.Between poor powers, we are still weapons and political vaccines.As a result: 1. Unilateralist behavior hinders the popularity of vaccines; 2. Nationalist emotions hinder the sharing of vaccine technology.The former leads to the inequality of vaccine, while the latter leads to uneven effectiveness of various vaccines.
According to the evaluation of the World Health Organization, the effectiveness of various coronary vaccines recognized is indeed very different, some can be as high as 90%, and some can only reach 60%.This undoubtedly leads to another problem, that is, people psychologically exclude vaccines with low effect and do not take vaccination.If they have no choice, they will naturally affect the vaccination rate.If the vaccine efficiency of a certain country and a country is relatively low and the vaccination rate is insufficient, it is necessary to slow down the pace of opening up the national borders and coexisting with crown diseases. In the end, it is still the economy and the people.
The key to vaccine nationalism like this is politics, and it cannot be said to be nationalism.Even if it is nationalism, it can only be said that it is a kind of deformity nationalism, because it not only violates national interests, but also endangers national interests.Essence
The disadvantages of vaccine nationalism are actually more than that.There is a disadvantage that is derived from capitalism.Driven by market forces, capitalism can inspire creativity and innovation. However, when capitalism develops to a certain stage and capital concentration is concentrated in the hands of a few capitalists, it will bring evil results.The greed of capitalists is a bottomless hole, and they are pursuing the maximum profit.In the United States, this is the case for the pharmacy, the military industry, the tobacco industry, and the so -called fourth -class media.They are controlled in the hands of a few tycoons and groups. These people are not only wealthy to enemy countries, but also manipulate politicians to serve their interests and form the so -called rich politics.Multinational pharmaceuticals and biotechnology companies such as Pfizer and Modner are all capable of this.
After the outbreak of the crown disease, under the drive of commercial interests, major pharmaceutical factories in various countries want to first start the vaccine to send a fortune.Political figures use vaccines to put gold on their faces and tell the donation vaccine to poor countries as "vaccine diplomacy".In the context of the fierce competition between China and the United States, the vaccine has also become diplomatic weapons.
Fortunately, Singapore does not have vaccine nationalism, only vaccine pragmaticism.For the vaccines in various countries in the world, Singapore is basically open. The medical expert group appointed by the government is responsible for the protection of different vaccines, and then decided to purchase messenger ribonucleic acid (MRNA) vaccine for the people.However, driven by vaccine nationalism, the United States does not adopt Chinese vaccine, and China has not been imported from foreign vaccines. It was not recently approved that Germany was approved to transport the first messenger vaccine to China for local German citizens.Some mainlanders have gone to Macau to get MRNA vaccines.
There is no doubt that this vaccine nationalism has not only hindered the cooperation of medical scientific research in various countries, but also greatly limits the free choice of the people, and even hinders the control of the epidemic.Everyone should remember that when Singapore starts to vaccinate the crown disease for the people for free, it does not provide a Chinese vaccine, and some people are annoying.Later, the government finally changed its decision to allow people to vaccinate Chinese vaccines, and the problems were solved.Anyway, vaccination is not mandatory, and people should have the freedom to choose.However, from a national perspective, of course, it is necessary to be worthy. If you want to buy, you should buy the best effect to achieve the best resistance effect.The result proves that this decision is correct.Corresponding to the crown disease, pragmatic is the right way.
The author is a former journalist, a former member of the Congress
There is no vaccine nationalism in Singapore, only vaccine pragmaticism.For the vaccines in various countries in the world, Singapore is basically open. The medical expert group appointed by the government is responsible for the protection of different vaccines, and then decided to purchase messenger ribonucleic acid (MRNA) vaccine for the people.
