Dong Qiangqiang's Story of Leaving Germany

Chapter 888.

Throughout the Spring Festival holiday, an unknown virus has disturbed everyone's hearts. Not only in China, but also in many parts of the world, there have been cases of pneumonia related to respiratory difficulties. The virus has shown strong transmissibility and infectivity.

Although Sun Tao suggested that Dong Qiangqiang should pay more attention to the reports of regular domestic news media and avoid hearsay and rumors, Dong Qiangqiang did follow suit, but what made him quite helpless was that, compared with the German media’s digging into the ground, the local Many times, his reports seemed thin. Whenever he wanted to learn more details, the report was over, and his doubts and confusions were not relieved or eliminated.He once thought that news programs must have advantages in terms of timeliness, diversity, depth and authority in order to generate trust in the audience.

What makes him even more uneasy is that although the information brought by the domestic media is limited, it is becoming increasingly heavy: In the southern city where the disease was first reported in China, the incidence rate in February has quietly doubled compared to January. Fan, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a small peak.An important reason for the surge in cases is that medical staff have become a vulnerable group. At the same time, there was a more terrifying and unfortunate result in the first month than in January: death cases.At the same time, most medical experts in the city believe that for the time being, it is not possible to simply identify the chlamydia of severe respiratory syndrome as the only pathogen.

Dong Qiangqiang can't understand medical terminology, but even if he has no medical knowledge, he can know that the rapid development of February (war) situation, the horrifying data, and the severe situation are far beyond his imagination.He is clearly aware that this war against the virus will definitely not be resolved quickly in the short term, at least not as optimistic as Duanmu predicted before.

On the other hand, with the passage of time, various convincing and well-founded theories began to spread in different forums: some people said that the virus is a variant of mad cow disease, some people think that the virus is a by-product of bird flu, and some people say that it is a variant of mad cow disease. It is said that it is a new type of plague, and some conspiracy theorists firmly believe that the attack came from a biological and chemical weapon of a technological power.If it wasn't for Sun Tao's reminder, Dong Qiangqiang might really believe in a certain statement.

Dong Qiangqiang doesn't believe in rumors, but he is always disturbed by not being able to read what he wants to know, and what he can learn from calling Dong's mother, Lao Bai, Lele and others is also very limited. In desperation, Dong Qiangqiang had to turn his attention to German media large and small.

The overwhelming reports of the German media have not stopped since January. Compared with the domestic reports, the reports of the German media are all-round, multi-dimensional, varied and pervasive, but Dong Qiangqiang actually does not like to read them.He didn't know if he judged the heart of a gentleman with the heart of a villain. Although the German media's reports were comprehensive, they always gave him a sense of schadenfreude. After all, there are still serious media, so he doesn't have to endure nausea all the time.

He roughly summarized several main points of view of the German side:

If you encounter a highly contagious disease, the first priority should be to trace the source and find the key "patient zero", that is, the first person to get an infectious disease.This person is both a victim of the virus and a potential "assailant" who spreads the virus. In epidemiology, it is also called the initial case.

Dong Qiangqiang often read the concept of "patient zero" in different articles before, but he didn't know the use of finding patient zero.After reading the column, I realized that the information of patient zero collected in key places can help the public health department analyze the source of infection, assist in risk research and judgment, and have a better chance to determine the outbreak time and transmission mode and route of infectious diseases, so as to facilitate public health The department took effective prevention and control measures as soon as possible to reduce the intensity of infection and control the spread of infection sources.

Dong Qiangqiang vaguely remembered that the first case seemed to be discovered in late November, but due to mild symptoms, he was discharged after recovery.At that time, everyone thought that this matter was over, but they didn't expect that the prelude had just been kicked off.

A German who loves to travel around the world accidentally got a trick while traveling in a southern city in December, and fled back to Germany in embarrassment.German doctors also learned from infected Germans that the virus that causes pneumonia focuses on the human respiratory system.

Dong Qiangqiang thought that the German media would ridicule this, mocking that although patient zero had been found long ago, the prevention and control measures taken were not strong enough, but the Germans' point of view was: If you think in a rear-view mirror, you can indeed judge in this way, but At that time, the practice of the German medical profession may be similar to that in China.

After Dong Qiangqiang finished reading, his first feeling was that he was out of control, but before he could blame himself, he was surprised to find that although the German media did not ridicule, it did not mean that they had no opinion, not to mention that this is a group that has never been stingy with criticism.

In a nutshell: Germans believe that Chinese people have not shown enough attention and vigilance, but are too optimistic. For example, according to the usual practice, after the winter vacation is the time when students from universities, middle schools and primary schools in different cities are about to return to school, but Germany After investigation, it was found that universities, middle schools and primary schools did not do a good job in relevant prevention publicity, let alone announced the suspension of classes, and spring has always been a season for respiratory tract infections. Affected by the climate, some respiratory infectious diseases are prone to local epidemics.If the channel of virus transmission cannot be cut off in time at this time, I am afraid that it is necessary to make psychological preparations and countermeasures to prevent a large-scale outbreak of the epidemic.

Dong Qiangqiang is convinced of this criticism, but the second criticism is really beyond Dong Qiangqiang's expectations.

In view of the increasingly raging virus, German medical experts have applied to China to join the united anti-epidemic front, hoping to fight side by side with Chinese doctors.But February has almost passed, and in a blink of an eye it is March. There are only some cities in the country that have been alerted, and no international colleagues have been asked for help.Some German doctors interviewed said that this is either because the Chinese people have not yet made a sufficient judgment on the epidemic, or it shows that the Chinese people are fully confident in their own medical system.However, he also expressed his understanding of this. After all, each country has its own medical system.

The German media also interviewed domestic medical experts. The expert said that he personally agreed to seek international assistance through relevant legal channels without affecting national security. If you want to overcome the new virus as soon as possible, the more medical research institutions involved the better.

At the end of the report, the German media launched a survey on the streets of Germany to understand the attitude of the German people on whether they should extend assistance to China.

The survey results once again surprised Dong Qiangqiang. Most of the Germans interviewed said that the Germans should support China. The reason for the support is not because of the deep relationship between the two countries, but "no one is an island and can be self-sufficient. Every human being is a piece of the continent, a part of the whole, and the death of any human being is my loss, because I am part of humanity."

Watching the Germans' impassioned statements on TV, Dong Qiangqiang's nose was a little sore. He never thought that the Germans would be so righteous, but his tears did not shed in the end, because a few more pictures were shown on the TV.

Urgent-looking people rushed into the supermarket with their families and mouths, and frantically bought them like they didn't want money. People seemed to have no rationality at all.An old man had more than a dozen bags of table salt, more than a dozen bottles of white and black vinegar, more than a dozen masks, and several large boxes of mosquito coils in his shopping basket. Facing the camera, he explained in a vigilant and vague dialect that he would ask for more after a while. Go to other pharmacies to see if they still have isatid root and alcohol.The reporter asked what it was, and the old man explained that it was a medicine for treating colds and disinfection. Seeing the reporter’s enthusiasm, the old man complained: He didn’t want to buy it, but his neighbors bought it, so he didn’t dare to leave it behind. The price of the supplies that cost a few yuan a pack has doubled, so he went to several stores but still couldn't buy them.

This scene reminded Dong Qiangqiang of the cross talk he heard on the radio when he was young: sesame sauce, two water tanks... monosodium glutamate, two drawers... But when was that?If the old people snapped up because of ignorance, how to explain the middle-aged and young people who look like intellectuals in the crowd?They were undoubtedly bewitched by rumors and gossip, but didn't they have their own judgment?
The German media finally concluded: A series of domestic emergency response measures for the strange acute respiratory disease that began to appear in late 2002 and gradually spread, although there are imperfections, are not useless. There is still a lack of experience in the emergency response mechanism, and the Germans should actually think about it. If this kind of thing happened in Germany, would Germany be able to do better than China?

(End of this chapter)