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There are many mountains in Guizhou and the traffic conditions are more complicated. Driving a transfer vehicle early in the morning has been questioned as one of the reasons for the accident. (archive photo)
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A bus carrying quarantined personnel in Guizhou, China, overturned and killed 27 people, prompting people to question the costly secondary disaster caused by the epidemic’s over-prevention.
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The new corona epidemic has entered its third year and many countries around the world have gradually returned to normal, while China still maintains a strict zero clearing policy. Since September, at the summit with the slogan “Nucleic Acid Prosperity”, the online rumors that “dynamic clearing will become a basic national policy” have also ignited public anger.
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Tragic accident of the Guizhou transfer bus
At around 2:40 am on Sunday (September 18), a car overturned in Qiannan prefecture, Guizhou province. Media and officials later confirmed that the vehicle was an isolation and transfer vehicle for people affected by the outbreak in Guiyang, transporting people involved in the outbreak to around 100 people. Quarantine locations 100 kilometers away.
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Chinese media Caixin quoted a person from the Sandu County Emergency Management Bureau, Guizhou, as saying that the people in the crash vehicle were transportation personnel from Guiyang to Libo, passing through Sandu County. .
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According to information released by Guizhou, 2 confirmed cases and 35 asymptomatic infections occurred in the province on 18 September.
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The day before the incident, Wang Jie, Deputy Secretary General of the Guiyang Municipal People’s Government, said on Saturday (17) that due to the large number and wide range of people to be quarantined, it was difficult for hotels already in operation in Guiyang to receive them completely and was to be transported to a twin city.The state conducts standardized isolation management. At present, 7,396 people have been relocated out of the city and 2,900 people have been relocated.
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China“Code for the management of the safety of road passenger transport companies”Article 38 requires long-distance passenger vehicles to stop running from 2:00 to 5:00 or to carry out shuttle transport; Passenger vehicles with a one-way mileage of less than 100 kilometers are not subject to this restriction. The map shows that the transfer destination of the vehicle involved in the accident in Guizhou is approximately 250 kilometers from Guiyang.
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Although Lin Gang, the deputy mayor of Guiyang, apologized at a press conference on Sunday evening, it was difficult to contain people’s anger and criticism. Netizens have wondered why so many people still have to be transported when the outbreak isn’t serious? Why move late at night? Is such an operation illegal?
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“Everyone is afraid of death, but I’m even more afraid of dying from some trivial nonsense, and I don’t even know why I died. Such death is too light as a feather, and almost destroys the dignity of People who hit the road. they were so desperate in the few seconds the car fell off the hillside, “said a Weibo netizen nicknamed Babur.
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There are also many netizens who empathize with the victims: “Why do you think you won’t be on that morning bus?”
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Weibo netizen “_Ruohan” said: “There is nothing to rely on to live in this place. I can only pray every day that no family or friends are sitting on the bus out of control. I can only pray that all the members of the group was knocked out of control, we on the bus were spared death.
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“Basic National Policy” and “Nucleic Acid Prosperity”
Last week, it was widely reported in mainland China that the “dynamic compensation” policy would become China’s core national policy. Some auto-media articles quoted Chang Jile, deputy director of China’s National Center for Disease Control and Prevention, as saying, “At the State Council press conference on September 7, Chang Jile, deputy director of the National Center for Disease Control and disease prevention has also made it clear that dynamic restoration will be used as a basic national policy that will be respected for a long time. “
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However, Observer.com later claimed that the September 7 press conference was not held by the State Council, but was part of a series of press conferences on “This decade of China”. health from the 18th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party Health Career Development Results.
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Observer.com said Deputy Editor Chang Jile, who attended the press conference, answered two questions during the press conference, which came from Singapore’s “The Straits Times” and the national “Daily Economic News” media. it can be confirmed that Deputy Director Chang Jile did not express in his reply the statement that “dynamic compensation” has become or is about to become a basic national policy, or there are some words that cause ambiguity. “
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Although the media refuted the rumors, such news immediately sparked public anger in mainland China, which has been under close epidemic control for nearly three years.
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“Instead of disproving the rumors, it is better to think deeply about why everyone is so panicking about this rumor. Many times we have not been able to endure such an official conclusion, but on a basic level, it is not the actual practice. that basic national politics is better than basic national politics, is it more than fear? ” Weibo netizen said “Yijia bluntly”.
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Some network users questioned that while the Chinese official did not explicitly state that dynamic compensation is a national policy, various stringent outbreak prevention and control policies have shown that dynamic compensation is a national policy.
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Weibo netizen “Did you make nucleic acid today?” she said, “Since it’s a rumor, how long do you say (dynamic compensation) will you persist?”
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In addition, it was recently reported on the Internet that Hangzhou will hold the 2022 Nucleic Acid Pharmaceutical Industry Summit Forum. Many people who think nucleic acid testing is disturbing believe it is very inappropriate to use the term “prosperity of the ‘nucleic acid “.
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Twitter netizen “Dugu Qiuzhuan” commented, “The prosperous age of nucleic acid is very appropriate. These nucleic acid industries are making money much faster than robbing banks …”
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“In the prosperous age of nucleic acids, capital is carnival! In China now, who does not rely on nucleic acids to survive, and everyone is complaining in all kinds of agitation, saying that too much is fighting over nucleic acids, refusing to do acids is illegal and there is nothing in the world that is more protected than nucleic acids. Business is up. “The Twitter netizen said” hold on tight. “
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The Beijing News, sponsored by the Propaganda Department of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China, also ran an article criticizing him, calling the use of the term a “low-level red, high-level black” trick.
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“The” prosperous age “that the public wants to usher in is the end of the epidemic and normal life. The” high-profile “claim of the” prosperous nucleic acid age “of pharmaceutical companies is not a” car ” -beautification “The result is intended to be” self-defeating “.”, read the article.
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Amid skepticism from the outside world, on Saturday the organizing committee of the forum announced the cancellation of the event.
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