Rebirth of the Wild Age

In a short period of time, SARS had a strong impact on China's economy, and the turnover of Shenzhou Technology and Xifeng Company declined significantly in April and May.

However, in this trend, the sales of Xifeng purified water, instant noodles and very cola have skyrocketed.

The reason why Xifeng purified water and instant noodles are selling well is because citizens panic-buy supplies. In some big cities, these items are sold out in a short period of time. This phenomenon is particularly evident in the capital city. Rice, flour, oil and salt, soy sauce and vinegar... are all within the scope of panic buying, and the shelves of major shopping malls are empty. A reporter interviewed an old couple who bought more than 6,000 yuan of grain and oil. The other party replied: We plan not to go out for a few months.

This situation can easily lead to the collapse of the supply and marketing system in a short period of time. The capital urgently transferred thousands of tons of grain, and many well-known daily necessities manufacturers fully cooperated. 1.45 million commercial workers were on duty 24 hours a day, and finally withstood the biggest event on April 24. of panic buying. The reporter asked at the time: If the people continue to rush to buy like this, how many days can the capital hold? The official response: Three days. The reporter asked again: The result? The official answer: Only 30 hours.

The emptier the shelves are, the more panic-stricken people will be and the more they will rush to buy them. And when they found that there were always items for sale on the shelves, they immediately felt at ease, and the rush to buy things naturally subsided.

In some other countries, the panic buying may have disrupted the social order before the SARS epidemic collapsed the society.

As for the sudden sale of Coke, it is very speechless. Because the formula of very cola contains traditional Chinese medicine ingredients such as licorice and white peony root, many people buy it as medicine for no reason, and its popularity has almost caught up with mung bean.

By the beginning of June, the epidemic situation in various places was obviously under control, and people gradually returned to normal life, but the panic caused by the epidemic still continued.

One by one, epic heroes and a short touching heroic story emerged in the middle of the SARS epidemic. Numerous medical workers are worthy of the title of angels in white. They are really interpreting the two professions of doctors and nurses with their lives.

Of course, while the official publicizes the heroic deeds, they also reflect very frankly. For example, when the official press conference was held, they announced very frankly: There are more than 32,000 registered doctors and 34,000 nurses in Beijing, but there are less than 3,000 doctors and nurses who are familiar with respiratory medicine. It only accounts for 4.3% of the total, and there is not a single hospital in Beijing that truly treats respiratory infectious diseases.

The background of this situation is that human beings have struggled against infectious diseases for thousands of years, and gratifying achievements have been made in modern times. People call it the first hygiene revolution. Medical scientists all over the world are devoting their main energy to the research of cardiovascular disease, cancer and other frequently-occurring diseases. As long as these diseases can be successfully curbed, the second health revolution will be ushered in. The prevention and control of major infectious diseases has been neglected all over the world.

Thus, Xiaotangshan Hospital was born.

The Beijing Construction Committee temporarily convened the six major groups to deploy. The six major groups received construction orders at night and arrived at the construction site with migrant workers at dawn. There was no budget, no contract, no time to negotiate wages, and even no architectural drawings at the beginning. Anyway, as soon as we arrived at the site, we began to do preliminary work such as land leveling.

The 4,000 migrant worker brothers, not to mention food, did not even have drinking water, and they worked for a full day and night as soon as they arrived. When another 3,000 migrant workers came to support them, they lay down in the weeds to rest. Later, the superiors urgently transferred 4,500 quilts and told them to pick them up, but no one moved, because the construction schedule was too tight. Those who took the lead and did the work had been working all the time, and they didn’t even dare to sit in the back. In their exact words: Sleep as soon as you sit, but you don't have time to sleep.

There was a construction worker named Zhao Zhigang, who finished his work at 3 a.m. and hugged a quilt to find a place to sleep. It was still raining in the sky, and it was dark everywhere. He fell into the tunnel used to lay the pipeline, and fell asleep in the tunnel. If the workers who buried the pipeline hadn't found out, Zhao Zhigang would have been buried alive by bulldozers.

In just seven days and seven nights, a modern hospital with nearly 1,000 beds and meeting the treatment requirements for respiratory infectious diseases was erected in the wilderness of the capital, and all the SARS patients in the capital were safely transferred here. Experts in respiratory infectious diseases gathered here to tackle tough problems.

Unite as one, overcome difficulties together!

In June, the college entrance examination came ahead of schedule.

Why do you say ahead of time? Because the college entrance examination used to be held in July, it has been moved to June this year.

Candidates immediately wailed, especially mathematics. It seems that the national mathematics papers have been leaked, and the spare papers are temporarily used. Those who can get 90 points belong to Suzhou Province, which is known as a strong province in the college entrance examination with excellent grades. This year, the average score in mathematics is only 68 points.

(Old Wang thinks of the teacher in charge of the high school. He just finished his third year of high school, and he kept talking about Chen x. Because Chen x is the student he brought out. Scared the candidates of that class. But Lao Wang’s senior said to the reporter: “I also failed in the college entrance examination this time. I only got 137 in mathematics, which can be said to be a big failure.”)

During the summer vacation, Song Weiyang took his whole family to Changbai Mountain to escape the summer heat. There was no SARS epidemic there, and he could also take Doudou to relax.

The past two months have not been easy for Doudou. She has to bring a thermometer to school every day. After taking her temperature at home, she has to ask her parents to sign it, otherwise she won’t even be able to enter the school gate. Her mother, Lin Wanzi, was trapped in the capital and did not dare to wander around. She called every morning and evening, and the relationship between mother and daughter became much more harmonious.

Before SARS was completely over, the dispute between Chinese and Western medicine on the Internet unexpectedly broke out.

Because in the middle and late stages of the fight against SARS, Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine was vigorously promoted. Even the Chinese Academy of Sciences said: Western medicine combined with 'Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Therapy' can effectively improve shortness of breath, dry cough, shortness of breath, fatigue and other major clinical symptoms. Experts in traditional Chinese medicine even wrote a paper, concluding: Compared with the study group treated with integrated Chinese and Western medicine, the duration of shortness of breath symptoms was 2 days less, the duration of dry cough symptoms was 2 days less, and the duration of shortness of breath symptoms was 1 day less. sky……

It happened to be this paper that caused the controversy. Song Weiyang's major is compulsory statistics. He can see that there is a problem with the sampling of statistics. How could the Chinese medicine black give up this opportunity?

In fact, due to the people's rush to buy isatid root and mung bean, folk remedies such as steamed with vinegar were popular during the SARS period, which has caused many people to be dissatisfied with traditional Chinese medicine. In addition, the Ministry of Health praised the contribution of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine to the fight against SARS, so some people were filled with righteous indignation, thinking that Chinese medicine was taking credit for the whole process and stealing the limelight from Western medicine.

The problem is that the leaders are not stupid. From completely ignoring Chinese medicine at the beginning, to suddenly mobilizing a large number of top Chinese medicine experts for consultation, and especially recommending it to the World Health Organization, it must be because of the effect!

This debate will continue for many years. Academician Zhong, a great hero in the fight against SARS, has been used by Chinese medicine hackers and Chinese medicine fans as a tool for pen warfare, and both sides are distorting the facts. Later, Academician Zhong said: From SARS to bird flu, I have gained a lot of inspiration from the therapeutic effect of traditional Chinese medicine in the past ten years...but I don't agree with the idea of ​​'combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine', because both Chinese and Western medicine have their own characteristics. The most important thing to do now is to 'advance both Chinese and Western medicine' and 'complementary Chinese and Western medicine'.

The Chinese medicine blacks immediately took the meaning out of context, saying that academician Zhong negates the integration of Chinese and Western medicine, and also negates Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine is definitely useless.

The Chinese medicine fans also only read the news headlines. Obviously, in the original words of Academician Zhong, they have already affirmed the therapeutic effect of Chinese medicine on SARS and bird flu, and even believe that Chinese medicine and Western medicine should go hand in hand. But they collectively turned a blind eye to it. Instead, they believed that Academician Zhong denied traditional Chinese medicine, and some people attacked Academician Zhong personally on the Internet.

It can only be said that the reporter has a good pace, because the headline they gave is: Academician Zhong opposes the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine!

Song Weiyang looked at those heated posts on the Internet, but felt that there were too many sand sculptures, and most of them just sprayed regardless of the facts. The same is true for black Chinese medicine and fans of Chinese medicine. The former dismisses Chinese medicine as useless, while the latter praises Chinese medicine as a cure for all diseases. Reading such posts will only waste time.