What is "scalper"?
In a general sense, they are what we often call "ticket dealers". With the collusion of various connections, they buy a large number of tickets, use them to hoard tickets, and then sell them at high prices. They are mostly gangsters or people without serious jobs who act as "scalpers".
In the wave of entertainment to death, ticket scalpers in the performance market are the most famous. A star's performance ticket can be sold for more than two or three times; but in an environment that does not run smoothly, scalpers can resell not only concert tickets, but also medicines.
In 2017, a medicine used to treat eczema originally cost only 45 yuan. After being resold by scalpers, the price directly increased to 200 yuan.
And just after the national epidemic was relaxed, medical scalpers also began to appear, purchasing large quantities of medical resources from 18th-tier places. For example, in some small counties in Guangxi and Yunnan, due to lack of information, scalpers took advantage of the information gap and looted cold and fever medicines such as Lianhua Qingwen, Ibuprofen and other cold and fever medicines from major local pharmacies.
During that time, major riders and couriers were rushing to buy cold and fever medicine in small places, and it even became a hot search topic.
In fact, the riders are just running errands, and the driving forces behind them are scalpers in big cities.
They change their positioning, place orders and let riders do errands, and then send them to cities. The prices in small counties are low, and they haven't grabbed them yet. Once they are shipped to the city, the goods are available. The scalpers made money by drinking wine at home without going out. They even made several times the money.
From a moral point of view, there are not many medical resources in remote small counties. With such a frantic grab, if the small county encounters any situation and has no medicines, it can only resign itself to fate. Although this is a bit exaggerated, remote counties are full of left-behind people, such as the elderly and children, and young and middle-aged people have gone out to work. If anything happens, they really just leave it to fate.
Have you noticed that there are fewer scalpers selling Lianhua Qingwen ibuprofen these days? Because scalpers are now busy reselling the new crown miracle drug - Pfizer special drug nematvir (Paxlovid).
In groups and circles of friends, scalpers spare no effort to promote the American Pfizer medicine they resell, saying that "taking the medicine within 3 days of the onset of symptoms can reduce the risk of hospitalization or death by 89%, and taking it within 5 days can reduce the mortality rate by 90%."
To be honest, the slogan is pretty good. I couldn’t help but want to buy a box after reading it.
On February 11 this year, the State Food and Drug Administration approved the import registration of Pfizer’s new coronavirus oral drug Paxlovid with conditions. Up to now, Paxlovid can be said to be “hard to find.”
Initially, China Pharmaceutical Group released a box of 2,980 yuan, and now Paxlovid has been sold to tens of thousands of yuan by scalpers.
Even generic drugs from India cost 2,500 yuan.
Of course, in addition to Pfizer, the funeral business has also become a hugely profitable business for scalpers recently. After the liberalization of
, it was originally planned to usher in the economic recovery of and . No one expected that the funeral industry would become the most beautiful among many industries.
Many old people passed away during this period.
A photo of a Xi'an funeral parlor leaked online. The front desk was packed with people, and the funeral parlor was very popular.
An elderly person in someone’s family has passed away and cannot be arranged. What should I do at this time? Find scalpers!
You heard it right, there are also scalpers in funerals.
An old man who has made many contributions can only wait in line and wait for cremation.
But if you are looking for scalpers, it is easy to say. Not only does the elderly not have to wait on the ground for cremation, but they can also optimize high-level treatment - they can be cremated directly in ICU.
Hu Xijin, an old man in Lao Hu's family passed away. After Lao Hu's "complex contact", all the intermediate steps were eliminated and the cremation was completed directly in the ICU.
Should we immediately take thunderous measures to completely crack down on medical scalpers and funeral scalpers?
Different people have different opinions.
Many people think that "the existence of means is reasonable." Scalpers should not be hated, because when you are desperate, scalpers can still give you a way out. To put it bluntly, it is to clean up the ground for scalpers, and many experts have done it.
In my opinion, scalpers are a deformed product spawned in the allocation of market resources.
Concert scalpers can be said to be investments, buying low and selling high, selling to people who want to go to the concert.
However, medical scalpers and funeral scalpers are plundering national resources.
is also an old man. One old man who has made contributions is lying underground and queuing up for cremation; the other, after "complex contact", directly skips all the intermediate steps and is cremated in the ICU.
Let me explain here, I don’t mean any disrespect to Lao Hu’s family members. After all, every life deserves to be respected, especially the lives that have passed away.
Obviously, the current imperfect mechanism and insufficient medical resources give opportunities to scalpers.
There are many ways to improve this situation, but at least, I think it is not to use privilege to defeat privilege.
Life and death are major events in life.
If even the last leg of life is not given the way to exit as it should be, and is instead occupied by scalpers, it will not be of any benefit to the country or the people.
