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The epidemic is climbing past its peak, and we are experiencing all kinds of anxiety. When
typed this line of text on the keyboard, the author endured the pain and drank the fifth cup of light salt water that day. "Razor blade throat" is well-deserved. Where is the legendary "90% asymptomatic"?
This week, the family's "Five Yang Kaitai" life continues. Medicines and antigens are still difficult to buy. 120 lines are often busy. fever clinics are crowded. The elderly and children at home are worrying. No matter how small the probability of serious illness is, it may take away lives. No one can bear the pain of losing a loved one.
This week, express delivery is still slow and small shops are still closed. When will the economy restart and how long will the peak period be? How will we plan our lives after the epidemic enters a new stage?
All kinds of uncertainties make us anxious. The accumulation of emotions impacts the psychological valve. How does
view current anxiety? How can we cure mass anxiety?
We are also looking for answers.
Conba production workshop, ibuprofen granule production line is replaced 24 hours a day without stopping the machine. Image source: Zhejiang News Client
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The key to unlocking uncertainty can only exist in certain facts and common sense.
For example, looking ahead, some positive signals are visible to the naked eye on the horizon.
The production line of ibuprofen is running at full production capacity and working overtime to catch up on orders. Our production capacity accounts for one-third of the world's; bus drivers from all over the world are supporting 120 from all directions; graded diagnosis and treatment is under construction Build a home-based rehabilitation system that reaches directly into the community; provinces with major labor exports are rushing to release medical resources to rural areas before the Spring Festival "wave of return to hometowns"...
Recently, a group of bus drivers in Hangzhou rushed to the Hangzhou Emergency Center. Picture source: Zhejiang News Client
Yes, in cities that are still reaching their peak, traffic is sparse, small shops are closed, and shopping malls are deserted... But we must also note that in places that are close to the "peak", such as Guangzhou, subway passenger flow has rebounded significantly, Zhujiang New Town Station has started to restrict traffic again after two weeks, and the train interval has returned to the normal 2 minutes from more than 10 minutes. Netizens reported that "the morning and evening peaks are pushed by the flow of people"; such as Beijing, In the past week, ticket bookings for Universal Resorts have increased four times compared to last week, and citizens have also posted on their circle of friends that the traffic on the elevated highway has become a "long red queue"; in Chengdu, Taikoo Li on Chunxi Road is crowded with people, people are shopping and taking photos, and netizens lament that "it seems like we are back three years ago"; data from multiple travel APPs show that after the release of optimized control measures for inbound and outbound flights, the number of searches for outbound flights has increased by 8 times, and the number of searches for inbound flights has increased by 6 to 8 times.
Yes, parents with school-going children are worried about how to go to school after the winter vacation? Students who are facing higher education or vocational exams are anxious about how to take the "peak" exam? No, in the past few days, one "boot" has landed one after another, the postgraduate entrance examination has been set, and high school final exams in various places have been adjusted one after another. In a few days, functional departments will make organized and humane expedient arrangements for these uncertainties;
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Yes, people are struggling with whether to return to their hometowns for the New Year. The worry of returning to the Yangtze River and the anxiety of "spreading the virus" make the return daunting, but we must also see that all difficulties and dangers cannot stop the "Yangkang" people from returning home. In train stations in major cities, "migratory birds" returning early are appearing one after another, and a Spring Festival travel rush that will rebound from a low level is about to begin. Industry insiders predict that travel demand will increase significantly on New Year's Day and Spring Festival, and railway passenger traffic during Spring Festival transportation will rebound to close to pre-epidemic levels;
More and more places are distributing free "health packages", and the number of critical illness beds in secondary and above hospitals across the country has increased 2.4 times in three years...
Our strong manufacturing industry is still reliable, and our system that history has proven to be "working" remains as good as ever. Although a small individual anxiety multiplied by 1.4 billion is a big problem, similarly, the small signal at the end of Qingping multiplied by 1.4 billion is a roaring train of the times. Time will prove that if we can do the best in "preventing infection", we will also be able to do a good job in "preventing severe disease".
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For another example, looking back, the three years we have spent together are enough to "let history inform the future."
When Wuhan pressed the "pause button", CCTV broadcast 24 hours of Huoshenshan and Leishenshan Hospital construction, 200 million netizens " Cloud Supervisor " witnessed China's race against the epidemic, The State Council's joint prevention and control mechanism fully supported the lake with "one province covering one city" In North Wuhan, there were so many moments and pictures that moved us together;
Relying on the late-mover advantage of digital governance and the cultural genes of our country and the world, we quickly eliminated disputes and formed a consensus, and launched the "Health Code" and "Itinerary Card", and normalized nucleic acid testing to go deep into the smallest basic unit to "prevent external input and internal rebound" We have achieved the ultimate, overcoming the most dangerous moment of the virus pathogenicity, and saving people's lives to the maximum extent;
The epidemic has initially stabilized, and we immediately regained the lost time. Zhejiang fired the "first shot" in resuming work and production across the country, and Hangzhou arranged a high-speed train to bring back employees and was imitated by other places; in 2020, we took the lead in realizing Economic growth has turned from negative to positive, becoming the only major economy in the world to achieve positive growth; during the 2022 Spring Festival, the Beijing Winter Olympics was the world's first comprehensive sports event to be held as scheduled since the outbreak, attracting nearly 3,000 athletes from 91 countries and regions. The cute " Bingdundun" became popular in the industry, showing the world a healthy China with "uniquely beautiful scenery" under the epidemic;
In the past three years, the virus strains have changed, but overcoming the difficulties together has always been our greatest consensus. We have achieved the revelation pointed out in "The Great Influenza: The Epic of the Deadliest Plague in History": This is a story about calm thinking, decisive decisions and taking action in a chaotic environment, rather than needlessly long arguments. We make many decisions, some of which are specific medicines with immediate results; some are slow-release medicines, and time will prove our original intention and wisdom.
On December 27, the press conference of the Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism of the State Council released a set of data. In the past three years, we have always put people’s life safety and health first. All infected people have been collected, and the epidemic prevalence and death toll have remained at a low level in the world. The average life expectancy has increased steadily, from 77.3 years in 2019 to 78.2 years in 2021, an increase of nearly one year.
This is the value of consensus.
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Back to the present, there is still a consensus that there is a special medicine to cure anxiety. Only by building consensus can we believe in the future.
believes in the strong material strength accumulated by our high-quality development . Today's medicines and antigens are masks and ventilators in early 2020. Once the production capacity reaches the "cabbage price", we can enjoy "freedom from scarcity";
believes that people The value orientation of people first and life first, therefore, once the "prevention of infection" enters the new stage of "prevention of severe disease", our party members and cadres have invested in communities and villages one after another, so that we can express our needs and resolve our grievances;
believes that "the old and the old are like the old, and the young and the young are like the young of the people." Neighborhood watches and shared medicine boxes are spreading like wildfire across the country. The author will also never forget that at two o'clock in the middle of the night, I asked for the " blood oximeter " in the community group. A neighbor I had never met quietly delivered it to the door of my house, which vividly explained that "distant relatives are not as good as close neighbors";
believe that "he who has the same desire from above and below wins", we never believe in the savior, what we worship in our hearts is Dayu who controls water. , Foolish Old Man who can move mountains, we believe that "united will" can "build a city", "unity" can "break gold", and united struggle can strangle the throat of destiny;
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It is foreseeable that entering a new stage, we will also face endless new problems, but we live in a relatively certain society, and believe that the power of the future is more powerful than imagined.
There is no major historical disaster that is not compensated by historical progress. The general logic of historical progress will not change - in the past three years of arduous fight against the epidemic, we have continued to seek consensus on the scientific track, constantly summarized experience and lessons, and achieved many constructive results in the fight against the epidemic. At the same time, we have also continued to challenge the limits of our own endurance.Those that are done right will lead us to move forward; those that need to be improved also hide opportunities for the national governance system and governance capabilities to achieve a modernization leap and the entire nation to rise upward.
Only by gathering such a consensus, can our lives be as sung by the poet Shizhi 54 years ago in "Believe in the Future" -
Friends, firmly believe in the future.
Believe in perseverance.
Believe in the youth that defeats death.
Believe in the future and love life.
