Now, it's time to put some critics' standards to the test
Never tell you what happened, only let you hate blindly, fear inexplicably, live in confusion, and die inexplicably.
—— Reporter Feng Xiang 
The coronavirus outbreak that started in Wuhan is destined to be recorded in the annals of our country and even the world. Even in this fight against the epidemic, we heard a lot of criticism. Objects of criticism include, but are not limited to: the Hubei government's decision to conceal information at the beginning; Hubei Province failed to prevent a large number of casualties and failed to prevent the epidemic from leaking to other provinces; after that, the central government decided to use a nationwide system to fight the epidemic, in order to prevent the spread of the epidemic. Normal economic activities hit the brakes, restricting the personal freedom of residents (strict community management, close monitoring of the movement of potential patients, ubiquitous thermometers, etc.); no control over the export of epidemics abroad.
In addition to the domestic situation, the author has always been very concerned about the overseas situation. Many people have arrogantly said to the author: things in other regions and countries have nothing to do with me, and I only care about what I care about; Yes, other subjects may have nothing to do with you, but are your judgment criteria reasonable and objective ? Just as you criticize Yao Ming for being too short and the speed of light too slow, you can indeed claim that your criterion is based on your own subjective opinion, but wouldn't that seem like a complete abandonment of objectivity and complete disregard for other reference points. Unreasonable and ridiculous?
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Let's take a closer look at the specific situation abroad:
Taiwan: Wuhan Pneumonia" will be fined for spreading the epidemic! Chen Shizhong: Whether the information is true or false, will be punished
https://newtalk.tw/news/view/2020-03-04/374186
The Central Epidemic Command Center reiterated the penalty for spreading false news at a regular press conference today (4th), calling on the public not to spread false information and avoid a heavy fine of 3 million yuan. For example, some media recently reported that a public PO published information on the residence of a confirmed case. Will they also be punished for publishing real information? In this regard, the command center responded that according to the "Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Law", the epidemic information will be released by the health authority, and if the public publishes without authorization, there will be corresponding penalties.
In response to the fact that the neighbor PO who lived in the same community as the confirmed case went out of the patient's residence, Zhou Zhihao pointed out that according to the "Infectious Disease Prevention and Control Law", the epidemic situation is issued by the health authority, and individuals will face penalties for publishing, and there are such cases. At that time, the government would not let sick people run around. I hope that when people talk about these things, they can think from the other side's standpoint, and call on the public to be heart-to-heart.
Commander Chen Shizhong also reiterated that when disseminating news about the epidemic, false information is the punishment for using rumors and false information. The real thing is the part that violates the "Infectious Disease Prevention Law" and will be punished regardless of whether it is true or false.
Italy: Italy blasts virus panic as it eyes new testing criteria
https://apnews.com/6c7e40fbec09858a3b4dbd65fe0f14f5
........ A World Health Organization official advising the Italian government, Walter Ricciardi, said test results must be certified at the national level before they are considered official and publicly reported. Without confirmation from Italy's National Institutes of Health, "cases that emerge from the regions are still considered suspect and unconfirmed," Ricciardi said. Walter Ricciardi, a WHO official advising the Italian government, said test results must be certified at the national level before they can be considered official data for public reporting. Without confirmation from Italy's National Institute of Health, "cases emerging in the region are still presumed to be suspicious and unconfirmed," Riccardi said. It remains to be seen whether or how the higher-level review of positive tests changes Italy's case numbers. So far, none of the 282 cases analyzed by the national health institute were rejected as false positives, and Italian authorities said they suspect that almost all of the preliminary results will be confirmed, too. It remains to be seen whether or how a higher level of scrutiny will change Italy's case numbers. None of the 282 cases analysed by the National Institute of Health so far have been identified as false positives, and Italian authorities said they doubted nearly all of the preliminary results would be confirmed. Italian health officials are making another change in their testing protocols that may slow the growth of new case numbers. The country expects to limit coronavirus testing to at-risk people showing symptoms of COVID-19, said Giuseppe Ippolito, scientific director at Italy's National Institute for Infectious Diseases. Italian health officials are making another overhaul of testing protocols that could slow the rise in the number of new cases. Giuseppe Ippolito, scientific director of Italy's National Institute for Infective Diseases, said the country is expected to limit testing to only those at high risk of developing COVID-19 symptoms. ........
The latest: Italy plans to block swathes of the north :
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-51787238
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/world/europe/coronavirus-italy.html
The restrictions affect Milan and the regions that serve as Italy's economic engine, and are the most sweeping measures outside China. The restrictions, which affect Milan and some other regions that are the engine of Italy's economy, are the most comprehensive measures outside of China.
Japan: The number of nucleic acid tests is far less than that of South Korea and Japan's control of the scale of new crown testing, causing controversy
According to data from the official website of the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, as of noon on February 25, Japan had only tested 1,017 people nationwide (excluding those on the "Diamond Princess" and those returning from charter flights), of which 140 were diagnosed, with a confirmed rate of 13.8%. ...... According to the statistics of Observer.com, from the 19th to the 24th, the daily number of PCR nucleic acid tests in Japan were: 9, 71, 90, 85, 96, and 39.
UK: The number of outbreaks will no longer be updated daily, but will be updated weekly
As of today, due to the number of new cases, we will no longer be tweeting information on the location of each new case.
As of today, due to the high volume of new cases, we will no longer be updating Twitter directly on the location of each new case.
Instead, this information will be released centrally in a consolidated format online, once a week. We are working on this now and plan to share on Friday.
Instead, relevant information will be published online in a weekly format. We are working on this and plan to announce more progress on Friday.
United States: First case of unknown source of infection was tested 4 days after hospitalization, and test results were received 7 days later
On Wednesday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that a California patient who contracted COVID-19 did not have relevant travel history or exposure to another individual with the virus. On Wednesday (February 26), the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced a California coronavirus patient with no relevant travel history or contact with someone infected with the virus. In the recent California case, the patient was brought to UC Davis Medical Center on February 19, but testing was delayed for four days, because the CDC said the patient "did not fit the existing CDC criteria" for the virus, according to a hospital press release. In the most recent California case, the patient was brought to UC Davis Medical Center on Feb. 19, but testing was delayed four days because the CDC deemed the patient "not eligible for the disease," according to a release from a California hospital. Control Center’s Existing Virus Detection Standards”.
CDC's "yes, no" incident and removal of people tested from official website
https://news.ifeng.com/c/7ubHIqP84oV
CDC has discontinued reporting the number of “persons under investigation” and negative test results for #COVID19. With more testing done by states, these numbers would not be representative of national testing. The CDC has stopped reporting the number of people under investigation for COVID-19 and the number of people who have tested negative. As states conduct more testing, these numbers won't be (comprehensively) representative of national testing statistics.
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As of the time of writing, the author has obtained a copy of the data of various regions within and outside the country that are not guaranteed to be the latest (all the cumulative number of confirmed diagnoses in overseas screening is above 100):
Region Cumulative number of confirmed cases Cumulative number of deaths China (including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) 80905 3124 Hubei Province, China 67743 3008 China (except Hubei Province) 13162 116 South Korea 7478 53 Iran 7161 237 Japan 514 9 Italy 7375 366 Germany 1112 0 France 1126 19 Spain 999 25 Switzerland 312 2 Belgium 239 0 Sweden 213 0 UK 206 2 Netherlands 188 1 Norway 169 0 Austria 102 0 United States 572 21
Unsurprisingly, the Communist government's approach has drawn criticism from some in the West, including but not limited to this New York Times article:https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/07/world/asia/ china-coronavirus-cost.html
Beijing says its heavy-handed measures are working. Can other countries battling the outbreak learn from its efforts — or is the cure worse than the disease? Beijing says its draconian measures are working. Can other countries battling the outbreak learn from this? Or are the cures used by Beijing causing more serious problems than the disease?
But there is no doubt that as the number of new infections in China is gradually controlled to double digits every day, and even outside Hubei is suppressed to single digits, and a large number of tourists entering abroad are strictly quarantined, the epidemic situation in mainland China Control has basically leveled off, and even platforms like Matters are gradually returning to the “quiet rhythm of the years”, shifting the topic of accusing the Communist Party to more everyday topics. The current situation of the epidemic abroad seems to be ignored by most people on Matters .
But abroad, the catastrophe brought on by the coronavirus continues.
After Italy decided to block swathes of the north, cities such as Milan experienced a surge of refugees similar to those seen before Wuhan's lockdown (first link below), and a prison riot resulted in the death of at least six inmates (second link below) Link).
https://www.euronews.com/2020/03/09/six-dead-as-coronavirus-restrictions-trigger-italy-prison-riots
In the U.S., the government, facing a death rate close to 4 percent, is still arguing over the level of warnings to issue. An outbreak of dozens of people has been reported at a nursing home in Seattle. A Seattle nurse, Paula Ruedebusch, wrote (March 3) on her Facebook page:
As a front-line Urgent Care Nurse Practitioner working in the epicenter of the COVID-19 outbreak near Seattle, I would really love to have access to those “43 million stockpiled masks” and lab testing. As a frontline nurse at the epicentre of the outbreak near Seattle, I would really like to have access to a "43 million stockpile of masks" and lab testing resources (as Trump claimed on Twitter). I realize Trump and Pence have been touting that this stockpile is a great thing, but I can think of a much better use for them than having them sit in a warehouse - I COULD BE WEARING ONE ON MY FACE - while I am exposed to dozens of really sick people during each of my shifts. I realize that this stockpile that Trump and Pence have been touting is a good thing, but I want to say to them that rather than having these resources sitting in a warehouse -- I'd rather take one and put it on my face -- - While I'm in contact with dozens of patients each shift. At my clinic, which saw the first known COVID-19 case in the US, I have to supply my own N95 respirator, while my employer insists that a simple surgical mask is adequate, and I luckily have some of my own after my last unprotected workplace exposure to active pulmonary TB. My clinic was exposed to the first known case of COVID-19 in the United States. I had to provide N95 masks on my own because my employer insisted that a simple mask would suffice, and I was lucky enough to get some N95s in stock after my last unprotected exposure to tuberculosis. ...... Regarding COVID-19 testing, as of yet, we are still unable to test anyone, and are unable to keep these patients with mild symptoms out of the clinic, where they can further the spread as we do not have the ability to isolate anyone , and the sick are mixed in with the injured. Regarding COVID-19 testing, so far we still can't test anyone, but we can't shut out these mildly symptomatic patients; because if we don't isolate them, they can spread the virus further, and Make the new crown patient mix with other patients. ...... I personally was incredibly sick with symptoms consistent with COVID-19 and was unable to get tested after talking with the Health Department and my employer. I didn't qualify for testing since I wasn't admitted to the hospital. I was unbelievably sick myself, with symptoms consistent with Covid-19. And after speaking with the Department of Health and my employer, I was unable to get tested. I wasn't hospitalized, so I'm not eligible for the test. I strongly feel that the numbers of positive cases are artificially low because we just simply can't test people. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean that it's not here. It is here. I feel strongly that the actual number of cases has been artificially reduced because we simply can't test. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean COVID-19 patients aren't here, they actually are. We have had patients presenting here angry that they cannot be tested for COVID-19, yelling, cussing, throwing their dirty mask at us and even spitting their secretions on the floor and walls on their way out. Please don't do that. We are not the ones making the decisions here, we are just the ones trying to triage, manage and treat those who are sick and injured...and, that is just gross. We've met patients who lash out because they couldn't get tested for Covid-19, yelling, cursing, throwing away masks they've been wearing, and even spitting on floors and walls when they go out. Really, please don't do that. We're not the ones who make the decisions, we're the ones who triage, manage, and treat the patients...it's just creepy. ...... The lack of access to testing is not unique to my employer at this time. All clinics in this area are like this and all of the local known cases have been within a 10-mile radius of us. Testing is only being done on those admitted to the hospital with severe symptoms without other known cause (negative influenza swab, and negative respiratory panel otherwise). It's not just our clinic that lacks testing capacity. All clinics in the area are like this. All known local cases are within 10 miles of us. Only those with severe symptoms but no other known cause (negative for flu, negative for respiratory disease) should be tested. ......
(The related post is suspected to be officially deleted by FB after it was published, and Paula Ruedebusch’s own account seems to have been frozen by FB for a period of time. The original full text can still be seen from other locations, and the New York Times and other media quoted the post as saying , which indirectly proves the authenticity of this post)
https://www.facebook.com/liz.wiseman.39/posts/10157124402617879
https://www.facebook.com/mpwstudios/posts/1332555243613332
https://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2020/03/04/us/04reuters-health-coronavirus-usa-tests.html
In South Korea, as the growth rate of the number of confirmed cases has declined, the South Korean health minister hopes that South Korea has passed the "peak" (outbreak period?) of the epidemic, but there is no doubt that for most countries, the disaster brought about by the epidemic is the only just started.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/09/asia/south-korea-coronavirus-intl-hnk/index.html
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From the (later disclosed) early warning of various parties in late December and early January to the announcement of Wuhan’s closure on January 23, it took more than half a month for the Communist government to make a “due” strong response to the epidemic. It has probably been less than two months since the danger of the epidemic was widely recognized by the Communist government (probably less than a week before Wuhan was closed down). Most countries have actually been given at least a month to prepare their measures to combat the outbreak. But apart from the Communist government, we have also seen that many so-called developed and advanced countries have carried out various psychedelic operations. Some of these operations deserve (in theory) similarly intense criticism by the standards of previous criticism of the Communist government. The epidemic situation in many foreign countries is getting out of control, so that at present China, including the authorities of Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan regions, are gradually placing imported cases in a more important position than domestic cases.
Behind the statistics of the epidemic are undoubtedly the bloody casualties of the patients , but at the same time, history, like a joke, has created a situation that has not been seen before. In the past, most of the criticism of the communist government's response to public events was based on a presumption: other, more advanced, more "democratic and free" governments could avoid social problems similar to xxx, or when dealing with similar social problems, they could Do better. The objective and horizontal comparison emphasized by many "publicly known literati" is always difficult to achieve, because two subjects need to stand in similar roles in similar situations and experience similar situations. things, react similarly. There have been some such public incidents. For example, platforms such as FB, Twitter, YouTube and other platforms have carried out large-scale bans in Virgin Airlines and Hong Kong’s amendment incident, and deleted uploaded text and videos. few.
The prevention and control of the new crown epidemic is not only an action of all people (like an elephant standing in a room, it is impossible to ignore it easily), but also coincidentally pulls various countries to a very similar starting line . Faced with serious and unavoidable dangers, each political system needs to operate its own system, allocate its own resources, and solve similar problems: how to balance various aspects such as controlling the epidemic, maintaining social functioning, and protecting human rights. As one Weibo user who impressed the author put it, this is a test of the polity of each country .
Whether many people like it or not, now is indeed the time to test the criteria for their past criticism of the Communist government. The Communist government may well be getting closer to handing in its own answer. If, in the eyes of critics, the Communist government is doing very badly, then we need to see how the regime they advocate can do.
I would love to see China rise, but I hope it rises with the power of civilization. How to measure civilization? I would like to share with you my own measure of civilization. It's not too difficult. The degree of civilization of a city depends on how the city treats its mentally ill patients, how well it provides services for the disabled, how well it takes care of the widows and loneliness, and how it treats the so-called blind migrant workers at the bottom. To me, this is a very specific measure of civilization. Wherever a country is civilized, I see how the country treats immigrants and its minority groups. I watch how the majority of this country treats its minority - and this of course includes how 1.3 billion people treat 23 million people! Who cares about "Rise of Great Powers"? At least I don't care. ——Long Yingtai
I have absolutely no hope that if it turns out that they are wrong, then that part of the critics will be able to admit their mistakes frankly. Gorgeous rhetoric can cover up low-level logical loopholes; scarecrow-like tactics can bring refutators closer to the abyss of theory; even if the book is really too much to eat, it can be maverick, update the existing theory, and put the emerging theory. The situation is classified as Exception (just like some overseas authorities and online platforms that were still in a large number of special approvals for Weibo control before 2013, they began to use "fake news" as the sword of fashion around 2015, and they wantonly suppressed dissidents) . Even so, the author still hopes that one day, these shameless people can be beaten to pieces and let them cry out their true thoughts in despair:
"The Communist government is dictatorship; dictatorship is the original sin; because of dictatorship, everything is wrong!"
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