Nuke Miko: Chronicles of America

Hey, working overtime every day is nothing more than procrastinating with rhetoric. What is the point of such a job?

The disaster has come, time has passed, and the result is irreversible... What else can she do except to be perfunctory and follow the tide?

Others thought that she was sitting in Los Angeles, the city of angels, acting as the mayor, and she was like a small prince, she was really majestic.

But actually?Ah!It is simply a vase to fool the media reporters, a doormat at the mercy of the media!

She can't push anything, can't stop anything, and can only watch everything worsen day by day.

At the same time, the coping strategies proposed by the higher-ups will continue to break through her psychological bottom line again and again!

——After hastily ended the disaster relief work and withdrew the rescue team from the disaster area, Governor Newsom brazenly announced that in order to restore the passage of several important highways as soon as possible, he planned to send engineers to blast the collapsed and sloping dangerous buildings on both sides of the highway. There may be living people under the ruins!

For such an absurd and cruel decision, Ms. Freya naturally jumped out to express her opposition, thinking that this matter is completely unreasonable:

You are so sloppy and perfunctory when you save people, but you are so proactive when you kill people... Do you, the governor, worship the devil?

But soon, Ms. Freya received a video communication from the White House, and learned a terrible news from the White House chief of staff.

——If the throughput operations of the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach cannot be resumed within two weeks, the U.S. economy will collapse!

Because, the desperate "Corona" epidemic has pushed this country to the edge of a cliff before that...

The Los Angeles Earthquake that just occurred, unfortunately, added the last straw that broke the camel's back.

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Although the United States has basically given up treatment in the face of the COVID-19 virus and canceled epidemic prevention measures, it only wants to keep the economy.

But the problem is, judging from the current social situation, although the "Corona" plague is completely unstoppable, the economy is also unable to support itself.

No way, the COVID-19 virus is apolitical, and it doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist as long as it is deliberately ignored.

As long as the mentality declines and medical ethics is lost, and hospitals are allowed to accept patients as little as possible, the US medical system can certainly not bear too much pressure.

But this terrible pressure has not disappeared, but has been transmitted to the entire American society, and it has been amplified and spread hundreds of times!

——People infected with the COVID-19 virus cannot continue to work and must go home to rest, otherwise the infection will spread throughout the unit.

Of course, you can also be an evil black-hearted capitalist, not granting sick leave, and ordering patients to keep working despite illness.

But the problem is, even the demons in hell, or the guards of the German death camps, can't make a person who has a high fever, respiratory distress, severe cough, severe dizziness, headache, fatigue, muscle aches...but not dead, still Continue to efficiently complete a series of tasks such as loading and unloading, construction, transportation, programming, finance, medical treatment, justice, education, performances, and even waiters, as if you were not sick at all.

—Even if you put a gun to the patient's forehead, it's useless!

Forcing patients to engage in complicated labor will only greatly increase the probability of accidents!Absolutely not worth the candle!

Next, if all "Corona" patients are allowed to take a good leave of absence, then it is the turn of the company's managers to be in a mess.

Don't think that a few weeks of sick leave is something to be taken lightly.

Even if there is no death at all and no sequelae, such frequent employee sick leave is unbearable for all companies.

——Not to mention that the mortality rate of this disease is not low, and there is no such thing as lifelong immunity. Not only can the cured person's autoantibodies only exist for three to six months, but also because the COVID-19 virus mutates too much, they are infected with a strain People who have no resistance to another mutant strain are likely to have no resistance.

In the most extreme cases, an unlucky patient can even be infected with dozens of mutated strains of COVID-19 at the same time!

For the managers of any company, you can imagine that 70% of their employees will inevitably take two weeks of sick leave in an uncertain period in the next six months. How troublesome would it be to die?How can production efficiency be maintained?

As a result, after the short-term rebound at the beginning of the cancellation of the lockdown to prevent the epidemic, in the next month, the efficiency of the manufacturing industry in the United States decreased rapidly, and even tended to stop.

——Those technical backbones and skilled employees who were knocked down by the plague, although they have been neglected and squeezed by the upper class for a long time, are actually precious assets accumulated by this country over decades or hundreds of years.

It is not easy to recruit some newbies casually and make up easily.

If an engineer with decades of experience is sick and asks for leave, can you go to the street and find a young and middle-aged street guy who is addicted to drugs and alcohol to replace him?

Some newly recruited workers from Boeing have been taking drugs to work. They don’t even know how to screw screws. They just hammered the screws in, and a magical accident happened that turned the Boeing airliner into tatters!

The naval shipyard has also fallen ill in large numbers because of the precious technical backbone, and the recruits who are stupid and addicted to drugs have caused the warships to be repaired and broken.

Recently, a destroyer undergoing routine maintenance had three fires and three explosions in the shipyard, and it was about to be repaired into scrap iron in the factory!

As for the armored vehicles of the Army and the National Guard that were repaired alive, and the Air Force's aircraft that were repaired so that the pilots went on strike and refused to fly, there are even more.

In short, the equipment readiness rate of the US military has been in a state of crazily plummeting recently.

However, the Pentagon also forced the aircraft carrier battle group to take the plague out of the port for a combat readiness cruise. The sailors were complaining about the disaster of the sinking of the Titanic.

Even those employees who survived COVID-19 and recovered from their illness have more or less sequelae.

——The most miserable ones are epilepsy and dementia, which can only be sent directly to a mental hospital; followed by a sharp decline in cognitive intelligence, and I don’t know how many falls I have to walk every day, and it is difficult to even take care of myself.

The third is that I am physically weak. I could carry a gas bottle up to the fifth floor in one breath, but now it is difficult to carry a battery car across a threshold.

As for tinnitus, loss of smell, abnormal taste, etc., it is even more common-thus greatly affecting their work efficiency.

Not to mention the "zombie strain" that "specializes in testicles" has caused a devastating blow to the self-esteem and spiritual will of most men-according to interviews with reporters, the business of street girls in Las Vegas has been extremely bleak recently , There is even a strange situation where there are more female customers than male customers.

In short, almost all manufacturers in the United States have fallen into the quagmire of reduced production efficiency, and the backlog of dragged orders has accumulated more and more.Production accidents broke out frequently, and the skilled workers and engineers who were already in short supply became rare animals, and there was no place to recruit them.

The situation of production is the same, and the situation of consumption is the same - the patients are not in the mood and energy to go out to have fun and eat and drink, and the family members who take care of the patients are also dragged away from going out to play. Even if the city is unblocked, looking at those patients Who is going to blow beer and drink coffee in your dilapidated shop?

As a result, those clubs, cinemas, casinos, amusement parks, and bars that have been unblocked are still in a slump, but the rent is booming with the crazy over-issue of the dollar, and it is becoming more and more difficult to recruit healthy employees: the result is Stores are closing down en masse, and the economy is languishing.

But in any case, as long as the supermarket shelves are still full of beautiful things, as long as the White House can still distribute relief funds, the United States can barely hang its life.

Conversely, if there are no cheap goods that can be sold in major supermarkets, the fate of this country will really be unstoppable!

——Although some politicians who believe in social Darwinism say in Congress and the media all day long that "the government has no obligation to guarantee the basic minimum standard of living for the people. Unlike freedom, food and clothing are not a person's basic right." .

Probably thought that the poor people in their own family were slavish to the bone, their knees were rooted, and they didn't know how to use the gun in their hands to resist tyranny, so they would just die obediently, right?

But the golden-haired fat man sitting in the Oval Office is not a real idiot after all, and he has a somewhat bigger picture in his mind.

He knew that once the poor had nothing to eat and clothes to wear, they would really rebel: there was no place to be foolish or pretend to be foolish on this crucial point!

Given the popularity of guns in American society, compared with the rebellion of tens of millions of poor people with guns, any party struggle is a trivial matter.

In order to keep the shelves of Wal-Mart supermarkets from being empty, Dao Wang even "helped" the deep blue state of California by pinching his nose.

Anyway, that's what White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told Ms. Freya, assistant to the mayor of Los Angeles, in a classified military video communication.

"... madam, the fatality rate of COVID-19 virus is not particularly high, at least not compared with rabies, Ebola and AIDS.

But the problem is that people do not only have the two attributes of [dead] and [live], but also have more states of [sub-health] and [sickness].

Those with severe fever, fatigue, difficulty breathing, and organ failure cannot work hard, let alone enjoy life.

Although more than 100 million people in the United States have died of illness, tens of millions of sick people have at least temporarily lost their ability to work, and have to leave their jobs and take leave. As a result, they lose the ability to repay debts and consume, impacting the medical and financial systems. It even broke the chain of social division of labor!

More and more people are sick and lying at home, unable to produce goods or serve others, but consume a lot of resources to maintain their lives!

It couldn't be worse!For the country, it is less cost-effective to let many people lie in bed and gasp in pain than so many people to die!

The disaster that this plague has brought to our society has never been a matter of simply considering the death rate and the number of deaths.

Its greatest threat is to use [just right] illnesses to make a large number of people fall ill and leave their original social positions.

All that is needed to dispose of the dead is a pyre and an urn.These sick living people need to spend a lot of materials, money and manpower to take care of them.It's like a broken-leg landmine on the battlefield that only maims but not kills.In addition, we had to find someone to take their place.

Hundreds of thousands of people fall ill, and we can still find suitable people to replace them, but what if millions, tens of millions of people fall ill?

Such a big loophole, there is not enough redundancy to make up for it for a while, and our entire social system is heading for collapse!

For example, as a company manager, if your customers, suppliers, and outsourcers quickly disappear by 20% to 40% in a short period of time, and these people disappear randomly, they don’t even know they disappeared Who it will be, I don't know when he will come back, or if he will come back.So, it doesn’t matter whether these people are dead or alive—can your company survive?

At the same time, because the state has greatly increased the level of relief funds, company managers have to give employees a substantial salary increase in order to retain healthy people.

In this way, the most reasonable choice for managers is probably to fire sick employees and shrink business.

Even let the company close, go home and wait patiently for the end of the epidemic, and the country will stop providing relief funds!

Therefore, the [Corona] plague blocked social division of labor, restricted production capacity, paralyzed social services, reduced orders, curbed consumption, blocked the economic cycle, increased debts and bad debts... the country can only rely on Desperately issuing more currency to barely maintain social order.

Since the continuous circuit breaker of US stocks in March, we have issued an additional US$[-] trillion!And I am afraid that there will be more issuances soon.

Relying on the additional U.S. dollars, we gave each unemployed a high relief fund of 4000 U.S. dollars per month, which temporarily eased social conflicts.

But the problem is that dollars are only valuable if they can buy goods, otherwise they are just toy bills in board games.

Fortunately, our currency is the world's currency. Although we can't produce so many goods domestically, we can still use US dollars to import them from abroad to maintain our crumbling social system. Thank you for controlling the plague in East Asia, otherwise we wouldn't be able to Know where to import consumer goods!

But this brings up the next problem. Consumer goods produced in foreign countries do not have wings, and they will not automatically fly to the shelves of Wal-Mart supermarkets. They must be unloaded at the port and transferred through large trucks on the highway and freight trains on the railway. Arrive in the cities that need these things.

Long before the outbreak of the epidemic, due to long-term de-industrialization, our country has been extremely dependent on international trade and overseas commodities.Under the current embarrassing situation of national production shutdown, the transportation chain from overseas has become the main artery of the United States, maintaining the life of our society!

Now, the wages of truck drivers have been raised sevenfold, and the Pentagon has even mobilized soldiers and officers to drive container trucks.

However, although the earthquake that occurred in Los Angeles on June 6 did not directly destroy the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach, it destroyed the highways and railroads connecting these two ports, which made the lifeline of American society, at least the lifeline of Californian society. , was half blocked..."

The anxious White House chief of staff said, "...now, the supply chain in the entire western region is in crisis, and supermarket shelves in hundreds of cities are out of stock! And before we accidentally issued too many dollars , and distributed as a relief fund, just like a helicopter throwing money, making those inferior fools rich enough to purchase and hoard goods, but it added even more trouble to the country!

Right now, a wave of panic buying is sweeping across the United States, and many merchants are maliciously hoarding goods and raising prices, further exacerbating the supply chain crisis!

Once the crisis in the supply of goods is not alleviated for a long time, it will cause the price of goods across the country to soar, and the society is already chaotic enough, with black civil rights activists everywhere organizing demonstrations and creating riots.If hyperinflation is added, the rest of the people may also take to the streets to make trouble!

If we cannot unblock the blood vessels of imported overseas goods as soon as possible, the consequences may be unimaginable..."

Therefore, Ms. Freya understood instantly: In order to restore the operation of Los Angeles, the largest container port city in the United States, as soon as possible, the highway and railway must be repaired as quickly as possible; Dangerous buildings and building wreckage on the side!

— No matter whether there are still survivors lingering under these dangerous buildings and building wreckage at this time...

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Stretching her hand through her hair, Ms. Freya Hale, assistant to the mayor, took out her Apple iPad and pulled up a map of the port of Los Angeles.

——The Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach in the south of downtown Los Angeles are two almost connected port areas, also known as the "Los Angeles-Long Beach" port.

At present, it has surpassed the old and outdated New York Port on the Atlantic Ocean to become the largest container port in the United States.

The container transportation volume of the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach alone accounts for 40% of the total volume of the United States!

It is no exaggeration to say that this group of "twin ports" has strangled the logistics throat of half of the United States!

The June 6 earthquake in Los Angeles, although fortunately, did not directly cause serious damage to the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach - the epicenter of the earthquake was in downtown Los Angeles further north.But it damaged several highways and some bridges, making it difficult for cargo from the port to reach the inland.

What's more terrible is that, before the earthquake on June 6, due to a large number of dock workers and truck drivers who fell ill and asked for leave, the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach had already experienced serious congestion—the port was full of goods. , but workers and truck drivers are limited, and the port is also poorly automated due to long-term union struggles, making it impossible to move goods away quickly.

The port staff can only let the freighters line up patiently at sea, and wait until the previous batch of goods has been moved to make room for the new goods before the following freighters can dock to unload.

After the earthquake, the containers at the port piled up even more, but there was no way to transport them out.

Today, more than [-] container ships have broken down and waited in the harbor, waiting to be unloaded, but merchants have been unable to get orders.

If the Port of Los Angeles and the Port of Long Beach continue to be paralyzed like this, the prices in half of the United States will go crazy, right?

Therefore, after urgent consultations, the White House, the Pentagon, and Capitol Hill decided to mobilize engineering troops into Los Angeles to repair the railway as soon as possible, clear several roads, and restore the operation of the port: and this must clear the building ruins and debris on both sides of the road.

——Because the interstate highways in the United States were built too early and the design ideas were not yet mature, as a result, many highways did not bypass the suburbs, but crossed from the urban areas.Usually, there are a lot of troubles because of the isolation of traffic, and the problems are even worse after the earthquake.

Without blowing up these dangerous buildings and ruins, how can the safety of the highway be guaranteed?What if the landslide affects the road?

As for the living people who may still be buried under the ruins, it is an insignificant price that must be paid to maintain the lifeline of the country.

Thinking about it carefully, this is also a very reasonable choice. Anyway, the archaeological rescue has already been performed, and the people under the ruins should have passed their survival period. Continue to let the pile of half-fallen buildings stand there , declaring the scars of the American spirit, does not seem to be a thing.

It's better to blow things up all at once, and quickly settle things down.

Thinking of this, Ms. Freya called the Chief of Police and ordered him to withdraw all police forces from the city center and hand over the entire disaster area to the National Guard and the army officers and soldiers who are about to arrive. There is absolutely no way for her to be blamed!

Since the unlucky ghost buried under the ruins should die quickly, the governor and the White House should bear the infamy!

Afterwards, Freya completely abandoned her meaningless work, turned off her mobile phone, and told her subordinates not to disturb her if there was nothing urgent.

Then, she drank champagne, ate a sumptuous seafood meal, took a bubble bath in the white porcelain bathtub covered with petals, called a masseuse, had an aromatherapy massage, and finally put on Loose silk pajamas, lying comfortably with eyes closed on a huge water bed.

——Before falling asleep, Freya did not forget to pray to the survivors buried under the ruins, praying for God to bless them into heaven.

Next, she took sleeping pills and fell into a deep sleep, ready to enjoy a long-lost sound sleep, sleep for at least twelve hours.

But what Freya never imagined was that in the next few hours, what a wonderful magical sleepwalking she would experience...

PS: Volunteers suffered from splint gas, it is hard to say.

When I met a beautiful girl in the beauty business, that internet celebrity face really seemed to come out of a TV series.

Even though he only shared a small apartment with someone, he can earn [-] and spend [-] a month.

Hey, why do I have some savings and real estate, but I am still always regarded as a poor person?Is it too frugal?

Chapter 94, The Arrival of the Ghost Grandmother

"...Freya! Wake up! Freya!"