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There are more and more obituaries, hospitals are becoming more and more full, and streets are becoming more and more deserted...
During this time, we seem to be collectively in difficulty and embarrassment.
This round is not the peak of the epidemic, but a tsunami.
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There are more and more obituaries
I saw a news yesterday: 13 academicians passed away in 5 days.
You must know that there are only more than a thousand academicians in China.
But in the five days from December 21st to 25th, 13 people left.
are both pillars of the country and well-known authoritative experts in the academic world:
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and famous laser technology expert - Zhao Yijun, 92 years old.
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Zhang Guocheng , 91 years old.
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and expert in civil engineering and structural mechanics— Long Yuqiu, 96 years old.
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and materials science expert—Gu Zhenan, 86 years old.
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and wildlife expert— Ma Jianzhang, 86 years old.
academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, professor of Tsinghua University - Lu Qiang, 86 years old.
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, biochemistry and molecular biologist—— Zhang Youshang, 97 years old.
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and famous pharmacologist—— Jiang Hualiang, 57 years old.
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, ecologist and forest scientist - Li Wenhua, 90 years old.
Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, my country's famous high-temperature gas dynamicist - Wu Chengkang , 93 years old.
...
The succession of obituaries is really sad and shocking.
Although academicians may pass away every year, it seems to be the first time that such a concentration has occurred in such a short period of time.
You must know that in December last year, two academicians died in the whole month.
for the whole of 2021, it is 28 bits.
In the past five days, nearly half of the academicians who died last year have died.
In addition to academicians, the official website announcement pages of Peking University and Tsinghua are also a bit dense with obituaries.
According to incomplete statistics, Qingbei retirees have died in the past month, as many as 35.
In the recent hot search list, many of them are also about the death of famous people.
Although many of the obituaries of these celebrities say that "rescue treatment failed due to illness."
But in this special period, it is difficult not to associate with "new crown infection".
In the past few days, many people have died due to new crown infection.
There is also a young designer in Changsha who has just graduated for more than two years.
was quarantined in a separate room at home after contracting COVID-19 and developing a fever.
Unexpectedly, when his family went to see him the next morning, they found that he had passed away.
The doctor initially determined that the death may have been due to suffocation due to fever and convulsions, and sleeping on the stomach.
A doctor born in the 1990s in Sichuan was worried that his wife and children would be infected with COVID-19, so he was isolated alone. Unfortunately, he died of high fever and convulsions.
Many netizens also left messages saying that their relatives died due to being infected with the new coronavirus.
Most of them are elderly people with underlying diseases.
In contrast to these messages, there was an announcement issued by the Guangzhou Funeral Home the day before yesterday.
said it very vaguely.
means that the business volume is relatively large now. Although there is no problem in picking up and transporting the corpses, if you want to hold a farewell ceremony or the like, it will have to be scheduled at least half a month later.We can generally guess the situation behind
.
2
The streets are deserted.
On the one hand, more and more people have died.
On the other hand, the streets are becoming increasingly deserted.
In many places now, the streets are even deserted than when the lockdown was imposed.
This is December 21, Suzhou an originally bustling street.
The shopping mall that used to be bustling with traffic was also deserted.
There is also a shopping mall in Changchun.
It is said that the business hours are from 10 am to 2 pm, only four hours.
But looking at this situation where only the clerk is seen but no customers are seen, four hours feels a bit long.
At present, "not going out unless necessary" seems to have become the normal life of many people.
Because "some people are at home when the temperature is 38.5℃. Some are at home to wait for the temperature to be 38.5℃. There are still some people who have bought medicine and are waiting at home for the temperature to be 38.5℃."
There is a restaurant owner who thought that business would get better after the relaxation.
Later he discovered that there were still few customers when the company was banned.
Moreover, there were no customers before, but now even has no employees - they are all sick.
In the end, he himself became infected and had to go home to rest.
3
The hospital is getting fuller
The streets are deserted, but the hospital is very busy, especially the fever clinic .
Shanghai fever clinics have already ushered in the first wave of peaks.
Some netizens said that after waiting in line for four or five hours, they only got two pills of ibuprofen .
In Jinhua, Zhejiang, a clinic was fully booked from day to night.
Because there were so many people going for infusion after infection, the clinic had to place a plastic stool at the door and pull up a clothesline.
Some infected people just sit against the wall and get infusions in the cold wind.
I was not feeling well, and it was really not easy for me to have to give infusions while the cold wind was blowing outside.
It’s not easy for patients, and it’s even harder for medical care.
Some doctors said that there are patients who can’t finish it every day.
Even if you don’t eat at noon and the time for dressing and undressing is limited to less than half an hour, there are still patients who can’t finish it.
Many doctors and nurses insist on taking care of patients while infusing fluids.
A doctor said bluntly that he had reached the darkest moment of his career.
Previously, Henan had decided to cancel holidays for doctors and nurses in the province until the end of March next year.
Hospitals in many cities are also rehiring retired medical staff to return to the front line of treatment.
On the other side, 120 is also busy day and night.
Due to the epidemic, the number of daily calls to Taiyuan City’s 120 emergency hotline has surged.
made an average of more than 4,000 calls a day, an increase of four to five times.
They really couldn't handle it, so they had to appeal: "Don't call 120 unless necessary."
Hospitals in cities are crowded, and clinics in rural areas are also crowded.
In a township health center in Yongshan County, Zhaotong, Yunnan, there are usually less than 10 people visiting the hospital every day, but now there are more than 100 people every day.
Oral antipyretics are no longer available, only injections are left.
Patients with mild symptoms can only find their own channels to buy medicines.
A netizen in Wuhan lives in a rural area and wanted to go to a big hospital after he had a fever.
When I arrived at the urban hospital, there were too many people in the fever clinic, so I waited in line for more than two hours and was unable to see a doctor.
She could only return home and go to the village clinic for infusion treatment.
But when we arrived, we found that the village clinic was also crowded with people.
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All walks of life are troubled by "yang"
As the number of infections increases, many industries are particularly affected.
For example, the delivery boy.
Many people are afraid to go out now. If they need something, they just buy it online.
But at this time, more and more courier boys are having sex.
Therefore, many people complain that their express delivery has been "lying" in the branch for half a month, motionless.
Some people even bought antipyretic medicine online, but they even turned negative and haven’t received the medicine yet.
Two days ago, a reporter conducted an investigation on several express delivery outlets in Beijing.
found that due to insufficient courier manpower, many express delivery outlets were backlogged.
Similar to the express delivery industry, there is an increasing shortage of delivery boys.
Recently, many people have discovered that takeaways are getting slower and slower.
In the past, if you ordered takeout, it would be delivered in half an hour, but now it may be on the way in an hour and a half.
There is a delivery boy who has a high fever of 39.8℃ and is still delivering food.
As a result, after delivering the last order, he collapsed at the gate of the community.
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sooner or later we have to go through this period of
. Each of us may have to experience various difficulties and embarrassments.
Someone has a fever and cannot buy antipyretic medicine.
Someone’s whole family fell ill together, and no one could take care of anyone.
Some children had a fever of 40 degrees for three consecutive days.
Some elderly people vomit all day long and don’t know what to do...
The current situation has exceeded many people’s expectations.
Some people began to panic and began to question:
Why did everything seem to get worse after letting go?
Those who clamored to "let go", are you satisfied now?
So the "control faction" and the "liberalization faction" started to quarrel again.
is actually not necessary.
We have to admit that this period of time is indeed painful.
But we need to know more that this pain is unavoidable.
In a context where the whole world is almost liberalized, if we keep dynamically clearing it, it means that we have to block it every once in a while.
Over and over again, we have to go through nucleic acid testing, quarantine, online classes, hoarding things, not daring to travel... the list goes on and on.
Do you really want to endure those days with no end in sight?
And this time we also saw how contagious this Omicron is.
is a large piece of information.
can no longer be prevented by simply blocking it.
If we don’t let go, the price of clearing will definitely become bigger and bigger, too big for us to bear.
So, always let go.
We will have to overcome this difficulty sooner or later.
and let go, we will inevitably face a collective impact and collective pain.
I wrote more than half a year ago that the cruelty of the new coronavirus epidemic is that it does not give us a perfect option.
Clearing and letting go may be a mountain of knives and a sea of fire. Clearing
is an endless pain.
Letting go is the severe pain of collective infection.
No matter which one you choose, it will be painful.
The only thing we can do is to weigh the pros and cons and choose the path that is relatively less painful.
Now it seems that the toxicity of Omicron has stabilized, and there has been no obvious mutation for more than a year.
It is difficult for us to expect that it will become weaker in a short period of time, allowing us to accept it more easily.
Then the long-term pain is worse than the short-term pain, so face it head on as soon as possible.
Although there are many difficulties and dangers at the moment, only by getting through this period can society slowly return to normal, and only then can we truly get out of the haze of the epidemic.
You see the excitement and joy in foreign countries now, and the blooming flowers, it is because they have passed the "letting go" test earlier than us.
And their costs are also huge.
More than 10 million lives fell forever in that darkest moment.
Then we are now normal and prosperous.
And if we want to return to normalcy, there is no shortcut, we can only face the impact of liberalization.
However, those who complain that "three years of prevention and control were in vain".
I would also like to remind you that the case fatality rate of the original strain three years ago was at least 2%.
If we hadn’t done our best to prevent and control it at that time, how many people would have died if it had spread like it does today?
html Out of 150 people, at least one will die.
This means that among everyone’s relatives and friends, there may be someone who dies from COVID-19. Isn't
scary?
The toxicity of Omicron is now 100 times less severe than the original strain.
But after we are infected, we may still burn to the point of fainting, and be in pain that makes us scream.
If this poison was 100 times more powerful, do you dare to imagine?
This time we faced Omicron, and many people failed to hold on.
is deplorable and sad.
However, if they had been liberalized three years ago, could they have endured it?
Therefore, don’t doubt the significance of our three-year ban.
Although there are many things, it is not perfect.
But we did protect millions or even tens of millions of lives.
That is probably our parents, or even ourselves.
Even if the cost is high, it is worth it.
And now, we stumbled to a new intersection.
has also reached our darkest moment since the epidemic.
The situation of hundreds of millions of people suffering from fever together must be very painful and embarrassing.
But since it must be faced head-on, let’s brace ourselves and fight this little virus .
Don’t be sad, don’t be afraid, it’s no big deal.
A few final reminders:
. This virus is not 90% asymptomatic, so don’t be careless. Don’t overwork or catch cold for at least half a month after infection, and take a good rest.
. During this time, learn more about relevant common sense. Study hard and use knowledge to protect yourself and your family.
. Do not go to fever clinics unless necessary, and do not call 120 unless necessary.
. If it is not particularly necessary, postpone online shopping and let the courier man reserve his limited energy for those who really need it.
. During this period, people are more likely to encounter difficulties. Everyone tries to help each other, whether they know someone or not, and if anyone has difficulties, everyone tries to help each other.
We have waded into the great river of the epidemic when the water is at its deepest and the waves are the strongest.
Let’s not be afraid, hold hands tightly and get through the difficulties together.
days will be bright soon.
light up [Like] + [Watching], I hope you and I will pass safely.
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