Everybody is partying in Wuhan while COVID is still ravaging the world

[Andy Meek]

• Wuhan, China, is the place where the global COVID-19 pandemic originated -- and yet, the virus has been held at bay to such a degree that people there have been enjoying boisterous parties, celebrations, and other aspects of normal, pre-pandemic life.
• China's Global Times newspaper cautioned the West against casting aspersions on the people in Wuhan, with the paper crowing that citizens there will continue partying joyously and the "West should get used to it."
• A New York magazine article published Monday, meanwhile, probed the question of whether the coronavirus escaped from a Wuhan lab by accident.

China's Global Times newspaper, which is operated under the auspices of the country's governing Communist Party, didn't even try to conceal its dismissive attitude toward the West in a story the paper published Sunday about the myriad New Year's parties and celebrations being held across Wuhan, China. More gatherings are going to continue to be held in this city that the rest of the world knows as the birthplace of the coronavirus pandemic, the story's headline triumphantly declared, so the "West should get used to it."

The whole article is basically a response to growing incredulity from elsewhere in the world that the city from whence the virus was unleashed on the globe is now at a point where its people can enjoy semi-normality and even go to parties without concern for social distancing. The article goes on to take a columnist from the UK newspaper The Telegraph to task, insisting that she "should better relate China's experience in controlling the epidemic to her countrymen and government to help the UK control the spread of the virus, instead of being jealous and hostile about Wuhan's celebration."

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