On January 23, 2020, Wuhan, the epicentre of the new crown epidemic, closed the city. Two years later, Xi’an and Tianjin, two cities with a population of more than 10 million in China, still staged many epidemic prevention disasters similar to Wuhan, including difficulty in seeing a doctor and Out of food, etc. Is it really a better and more scientific approach to epidemic prevention in China in pursuit of clearing and closing cities at every turn? Why do similar tragedies continue to be staged in different cities?
76. This is the number of days that Wuhan closed the city for epidemic prevention two years ago; 28. It took less than a month for Xi’an to lift the prevention and control measures announced at the end of last year from January 20, and resume normal production and life. order.
Are the fireworks back? For Miss Chen, who lives in a neighborhood near Xi’an Aviation College, she only has a stomach full of anger to complain to reporters.
There is no fireworks, but the people of Xi’an are very hot
“It was said that the lockdown was lifted, but I’m not happy, nothing to be happy about. I can only say that now I can go out once every two days, I can purchase supplies myself, and things can be a little cheaper. If we are not allowed to go out, we can only Buying ‘high-priced dishes’ at the gate of the community, then we can’t stand it.”
Ms. Chen did not want to be interviewed by name due to personal safety concerns. She said that her community is still a control area. Starting from the 20th, one person from each household and every two days can go out to purchase supplies, but each time is limited to two hours. Cross-regional is also prohibited.
When the reporter asked, if you accidentally time out, what can the community do to you? won’t let you go home?
Miss Chen said, “It’s hard to tell, I don’t know, but who wants to risk getting a red code? It’s not that there is a second-class contact in Beijing who can’t even go home after a second-class contact becomes a red code, and there is no one on the 20-kilometer road. Help her.” Ms. Chen took the initiative to talk about the example of non-local people who couldn’t go home because of their green codes in Beijing, and she said, “These officials in China are not serving the common people at all, they are serving themselves and their superiors. Who cares about the life of the people at the bottom?”
Ms. Chen still clearly remembers that when Xi’an was locked down, migrant workers were beaten up just because they were hungry for many days and wanted to buy a steamed bun; pregnant women and people with heart disease could not receive timely treatment because they did not have a green code, lost their children or lost their lives. relatives.
Badly copied Wuhan blood and tears homework
These secondary disasters were staged in Wuhan two years ago.
Two years ago, Li Lina, a Wuhan woman who “knocked the gong to save her mother”, also saved her mother because she posted the video online.
Two years later, Ms. Xi’an, who goes by the online name “Sun Huahuahua 00000”, called the hospital many times during the lockdown, but failed to save her father’s angina in time.
For Zhang Hai, who also lost his father because of the epidemic, two years later, he was suppressed and monitored by the Wuhan municipal government, but it was even more severe. He did not shrink back, and still insisted on finding the truth and seeking justice for his father.
Zhang Hai believes that from Xi’an, Henan to Tianjin, in order to avoid disasters derived from epidemic prevention, the truth must be spread in the sun. If Wuhan does not take this step, China will have more tragedies of Wuhan’s closure.
“They are still covering up the truth so far. How did this virus come from? How many people died in Wuhan? These officials in China only learned from Wuhan ‘one size fits all’ and ‘blocking news’, that’s why My father would have contracted the virus in the hospital and died at the time, these were all man-made disasters,” Zhang Hai told reporters.
Without the truth, the copied homework will only be the sadness of repeated writing, especially the life of the people at the bottom is even worse.
One-size-fits-all epidemic prevention: what do foreigners eat?
Tianjin, which is experiencing a “slightly closed city”, repeats a similar plot in Xi’an.
“It’s hard to get (supply) meals with rural household registration in Tianjin, so what do non-local people eat? What do non-local people eat without household registration?” In a video that went viral on the Internet, a man with a possible rural household registration was in Tianjin city. Screaming in the cold night.
As the gateway city of Beijing, Tianjin, although the official word “closed city” is not spoken, this municipality with a population of 15 million has already completed the fourth round of nucleic acid testing for all employees. For the Tianjin Municipal Government, during the epidemic, the problem of food and clothing for residents without urban hukou, and the intensive production of nucleic acids and the goal of “clearing the society” in the shortest time, the priority of the two tasks, the official has its own. ruler.
Xia Ming, a professor of political science at the City University of New York, told this station that in addition to the cultural characteristics of China’s urban governance that have existed for thousands of years, under the governance of the CCP, the problem has been exacerbated, and the crux is the system that has no checks and balances and cannot be held accountable.
“All the dynasties in China have a characteristic that is centralization and control, and when the CCP is in power, it is even more omnipotent and control. A government that cannot be held accountable will appear arbitrary and arrogant in power, as long as the regime is stable, who cares about killing a person?” Xia Ming told reporters.
Big data identifies the hardest Chinese But he didn’t help him find his son
Comparing with the “hardest Chinese in the epidemiology”, Yue Ronggui, who worked in the middle of the night and worked more than 20 jobs in 18 days, contracted the epidemic, people can’t help but wonder, the big data controlled by the Chinese government can list him so efficiently. Why couldn’t he help him find his missing son? Forcing Yue Ronggui to appeal to Beijing to work while he was diagnosed, and the police in Weihai, Shandong did not take the petitions of ordinary people seriously until the report of “China News Weekly” appeared.
“This is the system’s waste of life, and the past famine was like this.” Xia Ming said with emotion.
Insist on clearing: The normal life that the Chinese can’t go back to
It is not the first time that mankind has faced a pandemic, and after a pandemic, how will life continue? This is a common issue for people under different systems.
In the “Global Normalcy Index” released by the British media “The Economist” on the 18th, China is one of the few countries showing a backward trend.
The Economist surveyed eight indicators including transportation, entertainment and business activities, and compared the living conditions of various countries before and after the epidemic. It found that in 2021, the normalization index of the Chinese people’s life will even decline from nearly 80% in 2020. for nearly seventy percent.
India, which is also a populous country, is a close neighbor of China. Although India has also experienced a surge in cases like many countries in the world under the Omicron epidemic, the Economist survey found that the normalization of life in India has returned to before the epidemic. 80%, higher than nearly 70% in the United States.
In Wuhan, where the epidemic first broke out, the Yangtze River and cargo ships are still busy, but because of the epidemic, people’s lives have long been different.
Zhang Hai is about to spend his third Lunar New Year alone without a father, and he still insists on the truth. In his recent open letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping, he still called for legal responsibility to be held against officials who concealed the epidemic in the first place.
From “come on hot dry noodles”, “come on roujiamo”, to “come on with pancakes and fruits”, apart from cheering and encouraging, when will the Chinese people return to their daily life before the epidemic? The old saying, “Looking at history as a mirror, can know the rise and fall”, is not theBest practice is to discover the truth and avoid repeating mistakes?
Radio Free Asia reporter Zheng Chongsheng reports from Washington Editor-in-Chief: Shi Qing Web Editor: Hong Wei