美籍作家对比中美病毒疫情：各位，这里有点不对劲

I thought about H1N1 in 2009, and I went to the CDC website, which is linked in the article. So this is the CDC, center for disease control, they’re highly respected organization and the initial estimates were like 1.6 million were infected and 18,000 died. 

我想到了2009年暴发的H1N1流感疫情，我去看了美国国家疾病预防控制中心的官网。这部分内容也链接在了我的文章中。这个中心是一个很权威的机构，根据他们最初的估计，有160万人感染、1.8万人死亡。

But then when I did a follow-up estimate of what H1N1 ended up really doing, it was three years later in 2012. 

但在三年后，也就是2012年，我进一步跟踪了解了H1N1流感最终带来的影响是什么。

And it's all in the CDC Information in the link on their website to 60 million infected and an estimated 284,000 died. And I thought wow, that's incredible.

我从美国疾病预防控制中心的官网上公布的数字看到，有6000万人感染以及28.4万人死亡，这让我很震惊。

And the point for me was, and that was from them as experts, and that was just an estimate. 

而且，这些数字还只是来自专家们的预测。

But no one was making these nasty anti-China attacks of, oh, the numbers aren't right. China's hiding it. They’re bad. The government's doing a terrible job. They're hiding what the real numbers are. 

但是没有人——那些抹黑中国的人——说这些确诊数字不对。他们反倒是攻击“中国在隐瞒真相”，“中国人太坏了”，“中国政府太差劲了”，“他们正在隐瞒疫情真实的数据”。

But nobody said any of that to the CDC back when this global pandemic in 2009 was happening. And the dichotomy between the two responses is horrifying. This xenophobic anti-China reaction is horrifying. It's been going on, it's in politics. That's why I wrote the article.

2009年全球暴发流感疫情的时候，没人用以上这些字眼指责美国国家疾病预防控制中心。这种截然相反的态度让我觉得太可怕了，这些仇视中国的反应太可怕了，但这些还在继续发生，甚至加入了政治注脚，这就是我写这篇文章的初心。

During the 2009 H1N1 outbreak, I don't recall xenophobic anti-America attacks across the globe, do you? In fact, do you recall it took six months for the US to declare a national emergency? Did any government from the onset in April 2009 through the end in April 2010, including the month of June, when H1N1 was declared an international emergency global pandemic, then send out a notice to its citizens that they should leave the United States? Close their borders to American travelers? Nope, not a peep.

在2009年H1N1流感暴发期间，我不记得哪里有出现过仇美反美攻击，你们记得吗？事实上，美国花了六个月才宣布全国进入紧急状态，你们忘了吗？从2009年4月到2010年4月，包括6月份H1N1被宣布为全球范围内的国际紧急流行病时，有哪个政府曾向公民发出撤离美国的通知？对美国游客关闭边境？没有，一个也没有。

Today I noticed in the updates that following the United States Department of State policy suggesting US citizens leave China, the United Kingdom embassy just released the same recommendation to subjects of the kingdom.

今天（2月5日）我注意到，在美国国务院敦促美国公民离开中国之后，英国大使馆也向本国公民发布了同样的建议。

In 2009, did UK subjects in America get a notice from their kingdom to leave America? No. 

2009年，在美国的英国人是否收到了来自祖国的撤离美国的通知？没有。

Did the world suggest we isolate from America? Close the US borders!? No.

世界各国是否建议我们隔离美国？关闭美国边境！？没有。

Did Americans get xenophobically attacked and targeted by anti-American sentiments like the Chinese are experiencing now? Um, no.

美国人是否像现在的中国人一样，成为排外情绪攻击的目标？没有。

Instead of looking at the will of an entire system of government acting faster than any other government on the planet could, we are one month later, still busy bashing a few local government officials in Wuhan who should have told us a couple weeks sooner. 

我们不去看整个中国政府体系用强大意志力作出的快速反应（这反应比这地球上其他政府能做到的都要快），却在一个月后，仍忙着抨击几个本该早些通报疫情的武汉地方政府官员。

And yes, that is true those local officials screwed up. And by the way, those officials are in deep trouble for it. Just like the recent Puerto Rican politicians who are in trouble when we learned they didn't distribute hurricane emergency supplies that were sent to them to help during last year's terrible hurricane. A disgrace.

没错，这些地方官员确实办了坏事。顺便说一句，这些官员正在被狠狠追责。就像最近被抨击的波多黎各的政客们，人们发现他们在去年的飓风灾难中，没有分发紧急救援物资。这是一种耻辱。

Individual people screw up all the time and hopefully justice gets served later, but that's not an indictment of an entire country's government.

每个人都有犯错的时候，但愿正义终能得到伸张，但这并不代表整个国家政府都是错的。

There's a strange senseless bullying extremism and activism in today's society and you should do your best to avoid it and not be a part of it.

当今社会存在一种奇怪的、毫无意义地恃强凌弱的极端主义和激进主义，你应该尽最大努力避免它，而不是成为它的一部分。

It is fomented by a small group of extremist activists while definitely not supported by your average mainstream person who is simply exhausted by their outrage-inducing antics.

它是由一小群极端主义激进分子煽动起来的，主流社会民众绝不会支持，他们只是被这些令人发指的荒唐行为弄得筋疲力尽。