Imagine the world

Chapter 153 The world is sick
Hua Zhenxing and Locke's interruption fully reflected a kind of thinking, that is, you think about yours and I do mine, and grasp the main contradiction without letting go.No matter what ideas Oldham wants to make in Port Fiso, the first thing they think of is how to manage their own affairs well, and promote the policy of Kelin District to the entire Port of Fiso as soon as possible.

Several people chatted in the car for a long time, Rothschild personally sent the two of them to the hotel where the new alliance brigade stayed, and before leaving, he specially left a document for Hua Zhenxing, reminding him:

"After you read it, you will understand why Oldham is so anxious. He can't wait anymore. There are too many people in this world who can't wait anymore and are thinking of various ways."

Locke didn't go back to the Fulgan Foundation's own manor, but came to the hotel specially to "report to work" to Yang Tehong and others. By the way, he held a working meeting to formally put forward the suggestion he just mentioned in the car.

Yang Tehong and the senior executives of Huanxiang Industrial all read the material provided by Rothschild.

Old man Yang said expressionlessly: "Xiaohua, you go back and tell Dr. Luo that you are ready to short the shares of Oldham Pharmaceutical Group. Whether you can take the opportunity to buy this group depends on his own means and luck."

Hua Zhenxing, who had recovered his original appearance, asked, "What should Dr. Luo do?"

Yang Tehong: "What to do is his own business. You don't need to worry about it. Regardless of success or failure, you just need to understand the process. Now you just need to pass a word to him."

Hua Zhenxing: "Understood, I will tell him later that it is your old man's reminder."

Hua Zhenxing knew old man Yang very well. He was always smiling. When he blows his beard and stares, he is not necessarily really angry. When his face is expressionless, he is actually very upset.

The information provided by Rothschild also mentioned the impact of the epidemic on Beli Country. Hua Zhenxing couldn't believe it, but it happened to be the case.

Beli country has a population of 1000 million. During the ten months, more than 1 people died due to the epidemic, and the death rate exceeded 40/[-]. The average death rate was [-] people per day, and it reached a peak recently. The number was close to two hundred.

Is this really a prosperous and developed country?It looks alike, but why is it so fragile?
There are 50 people in the port of Fiso, which is one-twentieth of the population of Beli. If this ratio is followed, an average of two people will die due to the epidemic every day, but in fact there are not.

According to the information obtained by Huazhenhang, after the heavy rainy season, there is no epidemic in Fiso Port.This is not to say that there are no other epidemics in Port Fiso, nor does it mean that the medical conditions in Port Fiso are good, but it is caused by a series of special reasons.

Port Fiso is a corner forgotten by the world, like an isolated island. In previous years, except for overseas tourists in the southern coastal area, almost no one else would come to this place.

Due to the worldwide epidemic this year, the number of tourists to the southern seaside of Port Fiso is almost zero. Several hotels and rented manors have been closed. Huanxiang Industry is planning to take advantage of this time to acquire the land together.

The three-month heavy rainy season has naturally cut off external traffic, and there is very little movement of people between blocks.

Since the beginning of this year, the visitors to Fiso Port can almost be counted on their fingers. First, Teacher Ding Qi, then "Feng Zibin" and his entourage, and then Frick, Mr. Feng, and the Fulgan Foundation Meet that group of monks.

Huanxiang Industry planned to transport a few boatloads of people from Mandeguo and other places, almost all of them were Chinese from the Eastern Kingdom who had encountered difficulties in the Black Desolation Continent like Huang Cansheng and Li Xiaoyang.

Old man Yang came forward to guarantee that these people would not bring the epidemic. Since he said so, he can be reassuring.Moreover, Huanxiang Industry has also adopted corresponding inspection and control measures on the passenger ship. Within the scope of Kelin District, the implementation of all government orders has been unimpeded.

The epidemic once made Dongguo's construction site feel like an enemy. However, after a heavy rainy season, the epidemic in Port Fiso has disappeared, at least in various neighborhoods. This is the conclusion drawn by Mo Shangtong after a comprehensive investigation.

Is there any virus in Port Fiso? It should still be there. It may be in the laboratory of the international hospital.

Two people die every day, which is not a big deal in Port Fiso, where people die every day from various accidents, such as homicide, smoking D, disease, malnutrition, injury and infection.

There is no accurate statistics on the annual death rate in Port Fiso, but it must be very high, and the birth rate here is also high. Raising children is just food, and there are almost no other costs for raising and education.

The high death rate and high birth rate have caused the population structure of Port Fiso to be too young. The average life expectancy here is only in their early thirties, and the average age is less than 20 years old.

But in the recent period, no one in Fiso has died from the latest epidemic epidemic in the world.

There is another data that Huazhenxing has mastered. It is amazing. The death rate in Kelin District in the past three months is actually zero!That is to say, in the past three months, Kelin District has a population of more than [-], and there has been no death. This is simply a miracle in the local area.

This miracle is caused by many factors, and it is also a coincidence.For example, the public security situation has improved. Kelin District has vigorously promoted the "City Sanitation Campaign" some time ago, confiscated weapons and expelled drug addicts, and the population structure is very young...

It seems that the life expectancy per capita in Kelin District will be rewritten from then on. Locke also pointed out at the meeting that by controlling the municipality of Port Fiso as soon as possible and fully implementing the policy of Kelin District, he is confident that the average life expectancy of Port Fiso can be increased by at least 20 years.

Only when one is expected to live long enough can one have a longer-term plan.

If a person's companions don't even live to be 30 years old, and he doesn't even have a reliable elder, and he doesn't think he can live past 30 years old, what kind of reliable vision can you expect him to have in life?If everyone is like this, what hope is there for this place?
Port Fiso is ill, once desperately ill, and is now in the process of being cured.

On the other hand, the country of Belize has experienced low death rate and low birth rate over the past few decades. The aging population is serious, and many locals are no longer willing to engage in so-called low-end labor. Therefore, immigration has begun to be introduced, which has also led to a series of social problems.

The continuous decline in the relative birth rate of the main ethnic groups is not a good phenomenon. Over time, this country will definitely have problems.But Belly is now facing another problem, unable to control the epidemic.

The higher mortality rate in this epidemic is mainly the elderly population with weak resistance and the poor population with poor sanitation conditions, which has also spawned many conspiracy theories, such as deliberately condoning the spread of the epidemic, and engaging in social cleanup and burden reduction programs and so on.

But the so-called death rate is just a probability. Even if it is a strong young man or a successful person in the upper class, who can guarantee that he and his relatives and friends will be absolutely safe?So it's not that I don't want to control it, but that I really can't control it!

Hua Zhenxing and the others have been in Brussels for half a month, and there was a clear dividing line three days ago.

When I first came here, it was almost impossible to see the impact of the epidemic. Except that people would wear masks when going out and try to keep a social distance of more than one meter from strangers, everything else was as usual.

And three days ago, the government of Beliguo issued the latest round of strict control measures, requiring local residents to work from home as much as possible, going out was subject to various restrictions, and all entertainment and leisure places were closed.

At the beginning of the year, Belly had actually experienced such a wave of control, but it did not last for too long, and the actual situation proved that it was not really under control.

For this round of control, if the actual situation does not change, the result of the previous round should be the same, which even Hua Zhenxing can foresee.

For such an epidemic, it is not strictly and thoroughly controlled, but some symbolic measures have been taken, which is actually meaningless. It is more like a gesture shown by the rulers to the people and political opponents, saying that I have taken action .

If you want to be strict and thorough, you really can't do it!The government cannot control all the grassroots, and the governance of neighborhoods in many places has been ceded to various private agencies and civil organizations. Even in places like Brussels, some neighborhoods are actually out of control.

The Belly country is too small. The integration of Roba State and the process of global trade liberalization have greatly increased the flow of people. It is difficult to prevent foreign imports only by self-control, unless the border is closed at the same time.

Even during the strictest control period, some people still did not abide by the epidemic prevention regulations, declared that it was a conspiracy, a scam, went out without masks, and held various rallies and protests.

As long as someone does this, the efforts of most other people to comply with the epidemic prevention regulations will actually be in vain.

What is the cause of this?Some say it is individualism, liberalism, and anti-intellectualism, while others say that the government has no control over the grassroots. These factors all exist, but they are not essential.

What kind of individualism and liberalism can disregard the safety of others and think that they have the right to go to bars freely without wearing a mask?But does he have the freedom not to work for the capital group?
From an individual point of view, it seems to be possible, as long as you choose not to work and wander on the streets, but it is impossible for everyone in a normal society to be like this, and from a group perspective, there is no such freedom at all.

In these so-called modern countries, thrift is no longer a virtue, and the media controlled by capital groups are pervasive, sparing no effort to promote consumerism.

Its purpose is to let people always overdraw their income to consume products; and at the same time sell their labor force to produce products for capital groups.

People are in a state of consumption hunger all the time, and have to pay the bills of the previous month and the previous month every month. Once they lose their jobs, they will immediately fall into financial crisis, and everything they own may be withdrawn.

Capital groups don't care whether someone is unemployed or not. What they want to construct is such a social state that everyone has to work overtime for it.As long as they want to hire the people they need, there are always enough social groups to choose from.

The proletarians, even the proletarians who already think they are the social elite, are coerced into it, and they have no internal circulation ability to resist risks, so they have no other choice.

Such a social state is not only what the capital groups hope, but also they deliberately created, but once the whole society is shut down, the price will be unbearable, and no one will bear it.

Take Brussels as an example. 80.00% of the employed population in this city are engaged in the service industry, and consumerism has been baptized for many years.

If strict and thorough control measures are adopted, even if it is only for one month, people who lose their jobs and income will not even be able to live this month, let alone paying back last month's bills.

It is impossible for private organizations that usually provide paid social services to mobilize supplies and deliver them to thousands of households. This kind of thing is neither profitable nor powerless to them.

Therefore, there is no way to truly implement the most effective control and isolation measures from a medical point of view, otherwise society will collapse before the epidemic disappears.

So in Hua Zhenxing's view, the world is sick.

Greedy people have been overdrawing the future, so that they cannot save the present. An epidemic that does not depend on human will has exposed many truths.

The wealth gathered by capital is currency, and the means used is to control the pricing of assets, and more and more wealth is virtual.For example, the annual trading volume of gold futures in the world is a hundred times the actual gold production. Apart from the wealth game, there is not much practical significance.

In the economics textbooks of universities in various countries, the capital market pricing method has been clearly written, which is the discounted cash flow model. In principle, it is how much wealth it will bring in the future, so how much it is worth now.

But the wealth of the future does not exist yet, it needs people in the future to create it, and the current world is trading with this concept.

Hua Zhenxing thought of Rochester again. He used to be a social elite. When he was a doctor, he saved lives and healed the wounded. What happened in the end?Today's Lord Rothschild has made a fortune from investing in medicine, but has he ever developed or produced a medicine?
Rothschild did nothing but play with financial capital.Yang Tehong asked Hua Zhenxing to remind Rothschild that he was ready to short the stocks of Oldham Pharmaceutical Group. Hua Zhenxing didn't turn the corner for a while, but Tang Senzhi helped him analyze and understand.

Rothschild is already an important shareholder of the Oldham Group, so how can he profit from the damage to the Oldheim Group's share price?
On the surface, he does not need to sell his own stocks, but secretly he can use another seemingly unrelated account to go short, and he can also use financial leverage to maximize profits. As long as the stock falls, he can make a fortune.

When the time is right, he will use the money he earned from short selling to buy stocks at low positions, so as to achieve the goal of controlling the group.

Can you still play like this?As long as you know exactly that the company's stock is going to go down, you can play like this!The system of the modern financial market is designed in this way, and a large number of financial derivatives are used to do this.

When everyone was discussing this material, Tang Senzhi opened his mouth to explain it to Xiaohua, which was regarded as a special class.

(End of this chapter)