Since 2020, it has become a habit for me to find a mask besides my mobile phone, key, wallet and ID card before going out. This year, there is another one-nucleic acid testing.
Many people are emotional and cynical about nucleic acid testing, which is completely understandable. Epidemic prevention measures sometimes really can’t keep up with this damn and cunning Covid-19. However, no matter how the virus changes, China has never wavered in its determination to "dynamically clear".
If the decision-making level of the country does not have the spirit of seeking truth from facts, scientific analysis, the most cautious evaluation and the people-oriented sense of responsibility, there will be no "dynamic clearing" policy. How many people’s lives and health have been saved by this policy may not be measured today, but when we compare those countries that are "lying flat and fighting the epidemic" horizontally, all the horrors are vivid.
Some people "envy" the "open society" in the United States, and some of them no longer require wearing masks even in public, let alone making nucleic acids. However, as long as we look at the American news together, we can know that President Biden, Vice President Harris, Speaker of the House of Representatives Pelosi, Secretary of State Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Austin and other senior officials and lawmakers have all been diagnosed, some of them have been diagnosed repeatedly, and some have no symptoms.
These elites can always find themselves diagnosed at the first time. Isn’t Pfizer CEO asymptomatic? How did he immediately know that he was diagnosed?
After being diagnosed on March 31st, the director of the CIA, Burns, told the truth. He was found to be positive for COVID-19 in routine PCR tests.
They are doing nucleic acid testing almost every day. In addition to having enough self-test boxes, they also have sufficient and good medical resources. But what do ordinary Americans have? Is there a routine PCR test? No, some are just "lying flat", and there are vaccines whose efficacy can’t keep up with the speed of virus mutation.
In the face of this epidemic, western countries have thoroughly demonstrated what social injustice is, but politicians and the media have told ordinary people that our epidemic is over.
However, experts can’t sit still.
Anthony Fauci, the same veteran of the Five Dynasties, as the chief infectious disease expert in the United States who is about to retire, warned on October 7th that a more dangerous new Covid-19 strain may appear in winter. This new variety will make people’s immunity acquired by vaccination invalid, and American epidemic prevention cannot relax its vigilance.
As of October 12th, the daily average number of deaths in COVID-19 in the United States is 323. For the United States, where the death toll has exceeded 1 million, more than 300 people a day may not be so terrible, but what about winter? Cold will increase the incidence of respiratory diseases, coupled with the foreseeable new variants of the virus. If it is still "flat", it is an inevitable tragedy that the epidemic mortality rate in the United States will rise again.
US Health Department officials said that the number of officially reported cases of COVID-19 was seriously underestimated, because a large number of home cases were not reported.
However, the Democratic Party is still busy with the mid-term elections in November, and does not want to take necessary restrictions on society, such as forcing people to wear masks, keeping their distance, and reducing the number of meetings.
Fauci can’t change anything. In the end, he just suggested that people should actively take the latest Omicron booster shots.
On the internet, there is a specious saying: the west lifted the epidemic prevention restrictions and "opened the society" to improve economic activity. However, on October 7, Bank of America released a report, which mentioned that the unemployment rate in the United States will reach a peak of 5.5% next year and will continue throughout 2023. JPMorgan Chase CEO Diamond and other Wall Street elites believe that the United States is likely to fall into a nine-month recession.
Looking at China again, after we restored the order of production and life through the "zero-clearing policy" in a short time, the added value of China’s manufacturing industry reached 4.87 trillion US dollars in 2021, up 26% year-on-year, and the added value was close to 30% in the world, while the total of G7 Group was 5.30 trillion US dollars.
This further proves that the scientific and prudent "dynamic zero clearing" policy is the most effective means to ensure economic development, while "lying flat and fighting the epidemic" not only kills people, but also harms the economy. What is the causal relationship between "lying flat and fighting the epidemic" and "promoting the economy"?
Whether it can be "dynamically cleared" is an all-round test of a country’s organizational ability, execution ability, support ability, social responsibility, people’s health awareness, and behavioral literacy. China has withstood the test, but in contrast to the western countries, it is blindly throwing pots and turning black and white.
Some people are influenced by the West’s "lying flat and fighting the epidemic" and have a lot of complaints about the country’s epidemic prevention policy. They think that it is right to do as the West does, while American media such as The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times always earnestly advise China to give up "dynamic zero clearing" to promote economic development.
But how can a country that wants China’s economy to collapse do everything possible to break its heart for China’s economic development?
If "dynamic zero clearing" is really so bad for China, will the United States be so kind as to persuade you to give up? If something goes wrong, there must be a demon.
Where is the demon? Because the United States knows the great benefits of "dynamic clearing" to social, economic and people’s livelihood security, it can’t do it. Therefore, we can only discredit China in the public opinion field to prove that "lying flat" is the right choice. At the same time, I want to use fallacies to stimulate the domestic public opinion field in China and increase the resistance and cost of "dynamic clearing".
At the beginning of this year, Karen Pierce, the British ambassador to the United States, made it very clear that in the "world war" against the COVID-19 epidemic, only an "open society" can be the winner, and China must not be allowed to win this battle.
This is the real reason why the West is attacking China’s "dynamic zero clearing" with all its strength. They are afraid that their institutional defects will be seen through by the public, so the West must be the "winner".
China has a population of 1.4 billion, and the per capita medical resources are not rich. There are nearly 300 million vulnerable people aged 60 and above in COVID-19. If the epidemic is allowed to spread, like some western countries, a cruel social Darwinian "death roulette" will be disastrous once it is laid flat.
Insisting on "dynamic zero clearing" means protecting our grandparents, protecting our parents and lovely children, and actually protecting ourselves.
If the epidemic is out of control, people will certainly crowd out medical resources. With the population base of Chinese and the spreading speed of Covid-19, this will cause a serious run or even collapse of the medical system, and other patients will also be affected.
Even for young and healthy people, COVID-19 has a certain mortality rate, and there are so-called "growing new crowns" and other problems. We can say that adhering to "dynamic zero clearing" is to protect everyone.
Western people don’t want to cooperate with epidemic prevention measures, which is directly related to their government and media’s high-profile singing of "personal freedom". China’s correct practice is said to be wrong, so as to prove that he is right to "lie flat".
But Covid-19 simply doesn’t know how to "cooperate" with some western countries. The virus is only afraid of countries that insist on "dynamic clearing" and prefers countries that "lie flat and fight the epidemic".
Our country does not want to return to the state of social openness in 2019, but at present, objective facts do not allow us to pretend not to see the terrible epidemic.
There are still many places worthy of improvement in the implementation of "dynamic zero clearing" and many shortcomings in the specific work, but this is by no means a reason to advocate "lying flat and fighting the epidemic". If the policy cognition of "dynamic clearing" is changed and "lying flat" is chosen, it is not a problem of perfection and improvement, but a disaster for the whole society.
What we need is some patience. We should believe in the power of unity. Persistence is victory.