Similar tragedies repeat on the second anniversary of Wuhan's lockdown

On January 23, 2020, Wuhan, the epicentre of the new crown epidemic, closed the city. Two years later, Xi'an and Tianjin, two cities with a population of more than 10 million in China, still staged many epidemic prevention disasters similar to Wuhan, including difficulty in seeing a doctor and Out of food, etc. Is it really a better and more scientific approach to epidemic prevention in China in pursuit of clearing and closing cities at every turn? Why do similar tragedies continue to be staged in different cities?

Shaanxi's official media said "Xi'an's fireworks are back", causing civil dissatisfaction and accusations

76. This is the number of days that Wuhan closed the city for epidemic prevention two years ago; 28. It took less than a month for Xi'an to lift the prevention and control measures announced at the end of last year from January 20, and resume normal production and life. order.

Are the fireworks back? For Miss Chen, who lives in a neighborhood near Xi'an Aviation College, she only has a stomach full of anger to complain to reporters.

There is no fireworks, but the people of Xi'an are very hot

"It was said that the lockdown was lifted, but I'm not happy, nothing to be happy about. I can only say that now I can go out once every two days, I can purchase supplies myself, and things can be a little cheaper. If we are not allowed to go out, we can only Buying 'high-priced dishes' at the gate of the community, then we can't stand it."

Ms. Chen did not want to be interviewed by name due to personal safety concerns. She said that her community is still a control area. Starting from the 20th, one person from each household and every two days can go out to purchase supplies, but each time is limited to two hours. Cross-regional is also prohibited.

When the reporter asked, if you accidentally time out, what can the community do to you? won't let you go home?

Miss Chen said, "It's hard to say, I don't know, but who wants to risk getting a red code? It's not that after a second-class contact in Beijing became a red code, he couldn't even go home, and there was no one on the 20-kilometer road. Help her." Ms. Chen took the initiative to talk about the example of non-local people who couldn't go home because of their green codes in Beijing, and she said, "These officials in China are not serving the common people at all, they are serving themselves and their superiors. Who cares about the life of the people at the bottom?"

Ms. Chen still clearly remembers that when Xi'an was locked down, migrant workers were beaten up just because they were hungry for many days and wanted to buy a steamed bun; pregnant women and people with heart disease could not receive timely treatment because they did not have a green code, lost their children or lost their lives. relatives.

Badly copied Wuhan blood and tears homework

These secondary disasters were staged in Wuhan two years ago.

Two years ago, Li Lina, a Wuhan woman who "knocked the gong to save her mother", also saved her mother because she posted the video online.

Two years later, Ms. Xi'an, who goes by the online name "Sun Huahuahua 00000", called the hospital many times during the lockdown, but failed to save her father's angina in time.

For Zhang Hai, who also lost his father because of the epidemic, two years later, he was suppressed and monitored by the Wuhan municipal government, but it was even more severe. He did not shrink back, and still insisted on finding the truth and seeking justice for his father.

Zhang Hai believes that from Xi'an, Henan to Tianjin, in order to avoid disasters caused by epidemic prevention, the truth must be spread in the sun. If Wuhan does not take this step, China will have more tragedies of Wuhan's closure.

"They are still covering up the truth so far. How did this virus come from? How many people died in Wuhan? These officials in China only learned from Wuhan 'one size fits all' and 'blocking news', that's why My father would contract the virus in the hospital and eventually die, these are all man-made disasters," Zhang Hai told reporters.

Without the truth, the copied homework will only be the sadness of repeated writing, especially the life of the people at the bottom is even worse.

One-size-fits-all epidemic prevention: what do foreigners eat?

Tianjin, which is experiencing a "micro-closed city", repeats a similar plot in Xi'an.

"It's difficult to get (supply) meals with rural household registration in Tianjin, so what do non-local people eat? What do non-local people eat without a household registration?" In a video that went viral on the Internet, a man with a possible rural household registration was in Tianjin city. Screaming in the cold night.

As the gateway city of Beijing, Tianjin, although the official word "closed city" is not spoken, this municipality with a population of 15 million has already completed the fourth round of nucleic acid testing for all employees. For the Tianjin Municipal Government, during the epidemic, the problem of food and clothing for residents without urban hukou, and the intensive production of nucleic acids and the goal of "clearing the society" in the shortest time, the priority of the two tasks, the official has its own. ruler.

Xia Ming, a professor of political science at the City University of New York, told this station that in addition to the cultural characteristics of China's urban governance that have existed for thousands of years, under the governance of the CCP, the problem has been exacerbated, and the crux is the system that has no checks and balances and cannot be held accountable.

"All the dynasties in China have a characteristic that is centralization and control, and when the CCP is in power, it is even more omnipotent and control. A government that cannot be held accountable will appear arbitrary and arrogant in power, as long as the regime is stable, who cares about killing a person?" Xia Ming told reporters.

Big data finds out that the most distressed Chinese people do not help him find children 

Compared with the "hardest Chinese in the epidemiology", Yue Ronggui, who worked in the middle of the night and worked more than 20 jobs in 18 days, contracted the virus, people can't help but wonder how the big data controlled by the Chinese government can list him so efficiently. Why couldn't he help him find his missing son? Forcing Yue Ronggui to appeal to Beijing to work while he was diagnosed, and the police in Weihai, Shandong did not take the petitions of ordinary people seriously until the report of "China News Weekly" appeared.

"This is the system's waste of life, and the past famine was like this." Xia Ming said with emotion.

Insist on clearing: the normal life that the Chinese can't go back to 

It is not the first time that mankind has faced a pandemic, and after a pandemic, how will life continue? This is a common issue for people under different systems.

In the "Global Normalcy Index" released by the British media "The Economist" on the 18th, China is one of the few countries showing a backward trend.

The Economist surveyed eight indicators including transportation, entertainment and business activities, and compared the living conditions of various countries before and after the epidemic. It found that in 2021, the normalization index of the Chinese people's life will even decline from nearly 80% in 2020. for nearly seventy percent.

India, which is also a populous country, is a close neighbor of China. Although India has also experienced a surge in cases like many countries in the world under the Omicron epidemic, the Economist survey found that the normalization of life in India has returned to before the epidemic. 80%, higher than nearly 70% in the United States.

In Wuhan, where the outbreak first broke out, the Yangtze River and cargo ships are still busy, but because of the epidemic, people's lives have been different.

Zhang Hai is about to spend the third Lunar New Year alone without a father, and he still insists on the truth. In his recent open letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping, he still called for legal responsibility to be held against officials who concealed the epidemic in the first place.

From "come on hot dry noodles", "come on roujiamo", to "come on with pancakes and fruits", apart from cheering and encouraging, when will the Chinese people return to their daily life before the epidemic? Doesn't the old adage "Take history as a mirror, you can know the rise and fall" just means that the best practice is to explore the truth and avoid repeating mistakes?

Radio Free Asia reporter Zheng Chongsheng reports in Washington Editor-in-Chief: Shi Qing Web Editor: Hong Wei

Opposition tried to blackmail, "I will not give any NRO, Prime Minister."

Musharraf did great injustice by giving NRO to two big families. The opposition has spread chaos in the country. There will be no reconciliation with the opposition. Talk to the public on the telephone line

ISLAMABAD : Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that he was thinking that I would give him NRO like Musharraf , I will not make any compromise with the opposition, the opposition in the country There is chaos. According to the details, your Prime Minister in a direct conversation with the people in the program with you said that Musharraf did great injustice by giving NRO to two big families , our competition is with mafia, mafia spread chaos in the country. Well, they were trying to blackmail me, they and their relatives are out of treatment , there are people sitting here who go to London to get tested, I told the opposition NRONo, in our time poverty has been reduced, half of our money goes to past installments of loans.

The Prime Minister said that inflation wakes me up many times at night. Pakistan is being hit hardest by the wage earners. However , inflation is all over the world . Even the richest countries are in the grip of inflation , 40% of the population of Canada is on their food, inflation rate in Germany is also at the highest level in 30 years, the United States has spent 6 thousand billion dollars so far. Inflation in the UK tooHistorically, France had the highest inflation rate in 13 years , and Europe had the highest inflation rate in 30 years .

"We are not going to make the country an Asian tiger or Lahore a Paris. The ideology of the PTI is an Islamic welfare state. It was a dream that we would set an example. Opponents say it is hiding behind religion," he said. I did not need to enter politics. In principle, I should have said this in Parliament. I am not allowed to speak in Parliament . When I start speaking, NROs make noise in Parliament .

What is the IAS Cadre Rules Amendment Controversy? Why are the states protesting? understand in 10 points

Many state governments have come down in protest against this decision of the central government. Most of these are non-BJP ruled states.

Mamta Banerjee has written a letter to the Prime Minister twice in a week regarding this.

The central government is going to make changes in the IAS cadre rules. Many state governments have come down in protest against this decision of the central government. Most of these are non-BJP ruled states. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee had first raised this matter and within a week has written twice to Prime Minister Narendra Modi regarding this. After this, the Maharashtra government, Chhattisgarh CM Bhupesh Baghel and Rajasthan CM Ashok Gehlot also objected. Now Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin and Kerala Chief Minister P. Vijayan have also written a letter to Prime Minister Narendra Modi opposing this. After all, what is the controversy regarding the IAS Cadre Rules Amendment?

On January 12, the Department of Personnel and Training (DoPT) wrote to the Chief Secretaries of the states that the central government wanted to amend the IAS (Cadre) Rules, 1954. The Center has asked the states to give their opinion on this by January 25.

According to this, the Center can call any IAS officer on deputation by bypassing the authority of the state governments.

Till now the arrangement was that the IAS officers of the states used to express their desire for deputation to the Centre. After this, the state government used to make a list of its officers and then among them were sent on deputation. 

It is believed that the central government can introduce this amendment in the budget session of Parliament starting from January 31. As of January 1, 2021, there were a total of 5,200 IAS officers in the country, out of which 458 were posted at the Centre.

But the decision of the central government to bring changes in the IAS cadre rules is not being liked by the officers of many states, due to which many states are now demanding that no change should be made in these rules. 

West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, while writing a letter to the PM, has warned that if this is not reconsidered, a big agitation will be held.

Former Jammu and Kashmir CM and National Conference leader Omar Abdullah said that this is against the federal structure. 

There has been a conflict between the Center and the states in the past regarding deputation. In May 2021, there was a conflict between the Center and West Bengal regarding IAS Alapan Bandyopadhyay. 

In December 2020, the Bengal government did not agree to send three IPS officers to the center. 

At the same time, in the year 2001, the Atal government had a dispute with the Jayalalithaa government of Tamil Nadu regarding IPS officers.