Response to Uglymuseum’s “The Mask”

UglyMuseum’s story posted in this week tells the same thing as mine, while we focus on different aspect. As a Panda, when I hear this news and read the reports, what comes to my mind first is that the coronavirus is mainly caused by human’s killing and eating of wild animals. I can clearly feel that how some human beings are destroying the balance in this planet by killing animals and damage natural environments. Obviously, UglyMuseum sees this disease from another aspect. How people are behaving when facing the terrible and threatening coronavirus?

When I read the news with my bear brothers and Chloe, we find that though the coronavirus is spreading quickly in China, especially Wuhan, Chinese people are uniting with each other and trying their best efforts to help others overcome this disease. Common people would donate money to Wuhan and tell surrounding people about the severity of this event. The government is using the quickest fast to implement policies according to the newest condition. Some company also ask their employees to send those necessary materials such as N95 masks, protective suits to Wuhan. Some hotel owners would volunteer to provide doctors and nurses with rooms so they can have a rest after the work…. However, at the same time, as told by Ugly Museum, some people are thinking to gain profits from this “disaster”.

Some people have good virtues while some people have ugly appearances and dirty thoughts.

When reading UglyMuseum’s story, I really feel shocked to know that as Chinese citizens, some human beings still consider their own profits and even take the disease as the chance to make money for themselves. For common people, especially those who have to work in the hospital, mask can guarantee their safety and save their lives. This is not the conflict between one person with another person, but the conflict between money and lives. After contacting with Chloe’s parents, we know that in Wuhan, the condition may be more severe than imagined. When you go to the hospital, you can see how people are suffering from the coronavirus, feel their fear of the coronavirus. Wuhan people are trapped in the city, other people should not do those evil things to make the condition worse.

UglyMuseum’s article is organized by the increasing price of mask and in the end, he ends the story with the man’s losing of all masks. I like this ending. At first, I think it just means that the man’s masks were picked up those people. While in my opinion, it also alarms people that if you are still so selfish, greedy, and try to make profits from others’ life safety, it just equals to doing the crime indirectly. They are killing other people. I really wish that Chloe’s parents can stay safe in Wuhan and the coronavirus can be defeated by human beings soon.

Finally, as an animal, I want to say that if human beings continue to kill and eat wide animals and don’t learn from the lesson of this event, they will also lose everything as the man selling masks. For any person, if he obeys the nature rule or human’s virtues and moral, he will definitely not get a good result.

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