(Reporters Cai Riyun, Liu Yiting/Interview with China) On December 7 last year, the State Council of China announced the “New Ten Articles” policy for epidemic prevention. The three-year strict blockade and control zero-clearing policy officially came to an end, but the epidemic situation exploded everywhere. Xi Jinping then announced, The borders will be opened from today (8th). Countries are worried that the epidemic may sweep the world like a tsunami, and they have resorted to strict prevention measures. As of the 3rd, the death toll announced by China is 5,249. Even the WHO cannot help but criticize China for being opaque and underestimating the epidemic situation. confirmed cases and deaths. A Taiwanese businessman living in Shanghai told “Ling Media” that without nucleic acid testing, the number of diagnoses is like a black hole, and the bottom is bottomless. Everyone “is either Yang Kang or Yang Guo, all Yang.”
In order to observe the situation of the epidemic situation in China on the spot, a reporter from “Ling Media” visited Chengdu, a major mainland city with the most closed and chaotic epidemic information, and Shanghai, a major financial city, in late December to bring readers first-hand factual information.
If you want to judge the infection rate around you, you can know it from the sound of coughing
Before we set off for Sichuan, China, the official number of infected people was not high. According to the official announcement, the number of cases in Sichuan increased by 86 on December 20, 97 on the 21st, 110 on the 22nd, 94 on the 23rd, and 24 on the 24th. The number of confirmed cases increased by 118 per day. As of the 31st, the cumulative number of confirmed cases was 915 (including 724 cases imported from abroad). By the time we left China, at 4 pm on January 3, Sichuan officially announced that there were 0 new cases, and a total of positive infections were reported. 7,159 cases, and local media also reported that “from these data, the peak of the epidemic in Sichuan has passed.”
But is that really the only number of confirmed cases? Is the peak of the epidemic really over?
After the “New Ten Measures”, the public first tasted the “freedom” of unblocking, and no longer swiped the health code when going in and out. After our on-the-spot investigation, we found that the virus is actually spreading everywhere, and people who have been diagnosed with the epidemic can be seen everywhere. The WeChat group of doctors and nurses complains regarding the medical system On the verge of collapse, the medical staff yelled that they mightn’t take it anymore, the pharmacy mightn’t buy antipyretics, the emergency room was full of people, and the ironic wails of the people “Pleasant Goat” seemed to be unable to reach the heavens in Beijing.
A Chengdu taxi driver (that is, a taxi driver) told the reporter of Ling Media, “When our friends meet, we will ask each other, have you passed the test? Or have you had the test?” He believes that everyone should be infected It’s just that the severity of the symptoms is different.
He said that he has never had a positive test, but his wife (i.e. wife) and children have had positive results. When they tested positive for nucleic acid, he immediately packed up his luggage, left his wife and child behind, and went to live with his mother-in-law for half a month. I dare not go out to drive a taxi.
What symptoms did his wife have when she was diagnosed? He said, “I just had a fever, a sore throat, and a cough.” Now that he has recovered, does he have any follow-up symptoms? He sighed and said, “Oh, I still cough occasionally.”
The sound of coughing has become like a “national movement” and can be heard endlessly. It is like a warning bell and has become the main basis for us to judge the infection rate of the surrounding environment.
The old man took off his mask and coughed and spit, all the passengers in the car were indifferent
Whether you are walking on the street, entering a store, or visiting a department store, department store food street or snack bar, you can hear coughing everywhere, softer, soft cough twice, wilder coughing at you without concealment, someone I may cough so that my breathing is not smooth, and I may even pull down the mask to make my breathing easier. The waiters coughed when they were on duty, and even when we flew from Chengdu to Shanghai, the stewardess coughed when delivering meals.
The most exaggerated thing is that before we return to Taiwan, we must provide the negative nucleic acid test results 48 hours before boarding. We went to Shanghai Changzheng Hospital to register for a paid test. The inspector (commonly known as Dabai) in protective clothing in the inspection booth was coughing While helping us with the test, I thought to myself, she probably hasn’t recovered yet, if the virus from her cough is mixed in our sample and prevents me from returning to Taiwan, wouldn’t it be wronged?
Once, we took a bus in Chengdu, and an old man in his fifties or sixties got on the bus and sat on a single seat. Soon, he started coughing violently, until we were sure that he must be a confirmed case.
Except for the two of us who were anxious, there was also a lady who sat in the seat in front of him. After the old man coughed, she mightn’t help but change to another seat.
What was even more frightening was that following the old man picked up the kettle to drink water, he suddenly pulled the mask down to his chin, lowered his head and spit furiously. After spitting, he used his shoes to wipe the floor back and forth as if nothing had happened, trying to wipe the sputum away. This behavior of the old man frightened us.
At this moment, we absolutely cannot continue to stay in the same car with the old man. In the space of the closed bus, I believe that all the passengers in the car will soon win the prize.
Just from the method of wearing a mask, the healthy and positive people can be found out in a second
We have only been in China for a few days, and it is getting easier and easier for us to identify whether others have been diagnosed. If you don’t wear a mask or the mask is not well worn, you must be positive. If you wear two layers of masks or even gloves, you must have never been diagnosed.
A gentleman engaged in real estate in Chengdu told us that his whole family is in good health, but his son who is in elementary school has obviously become weak in physical strength. When climbing stairs, he would tell his father to “slow down” from time to time and ask for a rest. He is worried that following the new crown is diagnosed, even if they recover, it will leave unrecoverable variables to their health.
In the face of our questioning whether “Xiaoyang people” are all the same, running around? A waiter from Anhui who works in a restaurant in Shanghai said bluntly: “Oh, when I am in the sun, I also go to restaurants with friends to eat, no one cares regarding me.” He said with a smile, everyone is like this, anyway, all of them have won.
A master in Shanghai put it more bluntly: “Yang? I have never had it!” I was shocked when I heard it, and asked him how he did it. He said: “If you don’t do nucleic acid, you won’t have a positive infection.”
This master explained the current prevalence of infection in China. On December 7, the Chinese government no longer forced people to do nucleic acid. After the health code was no longer checked in public places such as stations and restaurants, everyone stopped doing nucleic acid. Nucleic acid, how to confirm the infection rate?
We met a lady riding a motorcycle in front of a nucleic acid testing booth in Jing’an District, Shanghai, and asked her why she wanted to do it when it was open? She said, “I haven’t done it for half a month, so I came to do it.”
“If you don’t test, you won’t be positive, and if you are positive, you will run around.” A Taiwanese businessman in Shanghai said with a smile: “You think, can this epidemic not get out of control?”
Facing the bottomless black numbers, as of the 3rd, the death toll announced by China was 5,249. Even the World Health Organization (WHO) might not help but criticize China for being opaque and underestimating the number of confirmed cases and deaths. In the current situation where black numbers are running wild in China, even if the WHO speaks out, the Chinese government may not be able to do anything.
Original URL of Ling Media:Exclusive direct hit / Coughing and shouting to open up China’s confirmed black numbers are like black holes
