The Narratives of COVID-19 (Part 2): The Blame Game!?

Money talks and money can stop people from talking.

The COVID-19 pandemic has become a testimony to the power of money.

With all the posturing of Western superpowers like the US, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom in the West Philippine Sea (South China Sea) by sending their warships to establish an international presence on international waters.

It is just that: posturing.

Just to think about it, have any of these countries ever attempted to make China accountable for the COVID-19 virus?

The heads of governments of these countries made the necessary motions of expressing their anger over China’s irresponsibility in informing the world belatedly about the virus outbreak.

But nothing significant happened.

All these countries, actually almost the entire world, have economic ties with China.

Would these leaders dare to offend China who controls the cash cows of these countries?

The answer is obvious.

It was only Trump who tried to make China paid.

But with Biden’s administration, you can never expect that he got the conviction to hold China accountable. His priorities and interests are elsewhere. Just make a guess where.

Many would say that now is not the time for the blaming game.

Well, how ironic!

We can blame people for going out of their houses; we are even blaming people for getting infected with COVID-19, we are blaming people for not getting the vaccines, but we cannot blame China!

In fact, we can blame everybody, even God, but not China!

And to add insult to injury, we are so grateful for the Chinese vaccines when in the first place, it was from China that COVID-19 came from.

This is sad.

We can always blame the powerless but never the powerful who started it all.

One of the current themes of the COVID-19 narratives is that this is not the time for fault blaming.

Advocates of this idea claimed that there is a proper time to hold accountable those who are responsible. What is more important, at the moment, is we protect the people against COVID-19.

Translation: Eventually, when this pandemic is over, people will forget or be disinterested about who caused it in the first place.