Zhihu | Zhang Feng’s Q&A: How do you view the current relaxation of epidemic control by the state?

First of all, I want to make it clear that I support the opening up, and I think the time to open up was a bit late. I was just diagnosed with a positive test result yesterday, and I have no complaints. Whether to open up or not is not an optional question, but a necessary answer.

However, the process after China chose to open up makes me very… confused.

We are the last country in the world to open up. It is said that many countries have already paved the way for us with the social problems, medical problems, and people’s livelihood problems after they have laid flat. Especially after Hong Kong opened up, the squeeze on medical resources, the lack of perfection in the guarantee of critical care, led to a higher mortality rate in the first wave of the epidemic than the average value, which should have provided the Chinese government with very valuable experience after deciding to open up. Moreover, we also clearly know that the basic medical conditions and hygiene conditions in the mainland, the number of hospital beds per thousand people, and the number of intensive care beds per thousand people are far lower than those in Hong Kong.

Theoretically speaking, we have enough time to review these lessons. After summarizing these valuable experiences, we should make corresponding preparations before opening up, including but not limited to strengthening the construction of public medical care, simplifying the procedures for fever treatment, increasing the number of intensive care beds, purchasing more drugs and medical equipment, supplementing the reserves of community hospitals, alleviating the pressure on large comprehensive hospitals for ordinary non-critical COVID-19 patients, and so on. If these things take time, at least we should do a good job of comforting, psychological counseling, and business drills for medical workers before opening up (because once they open up, they are the most vulnerable to infection but also the most needed occupational group), establish a physician rotation system, supplement the special drug inventory in pharmacies, deal with the lack of medical personnel after infection, orderly supplement and allocate physicians in fever clinics, do a good job of diversion and diversion in hospitals, and try to reduce the probability of infection for specialist clinics, surgeons, and emergency doctors… But when we opened up, we didn’t have anything… nothing… nothing…

The answerer is a director of the ENT department of a well-known top-three hospital in the capital. Before the policy chose to open up, they didn’t even have a preparatory meeting. Even for the sudden opening up, she, like others, only knew about it from the news…

What is the situation in Beijing now? There is no one on the streets. Why is there no one? Because they dare not go out for fear of infection. Why are they afraid of infection? Because you can’t even buy antipyretic drugs and antigen boxes in all the pharmacies. Is this normal? The common people are cursing pharmacies, cursing hospitals, cursing unscrupulous merchants, cursing capitalists who are bleeding from every pore… I don’t know whether to say they are kind or dull.

Seeing this, I don’t know if everyone has the same idea as me. This is not a matter of whether it should be thought of or done. The result is very… confusing, just like facing a rebellious, middle-school-aged child who is not yet an adult. He has no sense of responsibility and is extremely paranoid, indulging in the dream of being the most powerful superhero in the world, with an inferiority complex and sensitivity. When you tell him that he should play less games and focus on his studies, he immediately smashes the TV, frantically stomps on his phone, tears up all the extracurricular books and sets them on fire, and then shouts at you with his forehead bulging with veins: “Are you satisfied now! Are you satisfied now!!”

The following are the replies of other Zhihu users to this answer:

tangscu: Agree, I think it was a battle fought without preparation.

loyalty: Opening up in a fit of pique.

Melancholy Butt Haha: Others only have the option of copying our homework, how can we copy others’ homework.

Simon Lin: Hundreds of nucleic acid tests were done in a year, but a few cents of antipyretic drugs could not be distributed. Truly excellent.

Eagle catches chicks: I feel like we were just busy sealing things up, and we never thought about the day of opening up.

Tuan Daren: The child studies very well and can get the first place in the school in the sixth grade. He has been in the sixth grade for three years. Others have gone to the middle school entrance examination, but he is still in the sixth grade and gets the first place. Finally, he decided to go to middle school, only to find that he could only do the sixth-grade questions, and he didn’t preview anything about the middle school content.

Ansel Tian: Hahaha, this article is going to be over at a visible speed.

Domestic and foreign patents and trademarks: How many communities have been sealed off, and there is no pre-plan for each emergency. What do you expect?

Peach: I think your last paragraph describes it very well. That’s how it is.

Post-90s empty-nest elderly: The summary is very appropriate, this operation is just one word: “confused”.

elaineyzz: Agree, a mysterious suddenness and irresponsibility.

jiangx: I think it was opened up after the outbreak, not the outbreak after the opening up.

Fox’s empty house: Opened up overnight, without any preparation.

Proud Fatty: Losing ground in both advance and retreat.