An old classmate happened to be a civil servant in Haizhu District, Guangzhou, and was considered to be the most knowledgeable about why the local area suddenly opened up. He said that the finances were really unable to come up with a single penny, all IOUs, all holes.
For example, the centralized isolation points, all the places that could be found were full, and the hotels even started to drive people out, because the previous fees had not been settled, and the hotels could not always provide free accommodation and catering. Helplessly, they could only requisition schools as isolation points, and as a result, they were frantically complained by parents.
Because the government had no money, they couldn’t even find volunteers, and had to conscript teachers to do epidemic prevention work, resulting in a shortage of teachers in schools, and the children had to take online classes in units of grades. Think about how bad the teaching effect would be? I said that there are so many public institutions, but you have to conscript teachers, and you think teachers are easy to bully. He said no, those who can go have already gone, and the reason why teachers are conscripted is because the education department can still pay their salaries normally and can still be mobilized.
In the end, the nucleic acid testing institutions all gave up, and they couldn’t work without money. Without money, not only various prevention and control work is difficult to sustain, but from a larger economic situation, Guangzhou’s GDP growth this year is only 2%. If this continues, there may be a recession, or even a crisis. Guangzhou’s private economy is developed and has been particularly impacted. If a large number of industrial and commercial enterprises close down, it will inevitably lead to a large number of unemployed people. At that time, not to mention mortgages and car loans, even maintaining stability will be a problem. This is the real situation in Guangzhou that the official media cannot tell you.
Take Shijiazhuang as an example, the same is true, nothing is free. Some people joked that going to the isolation point is to eat a few days of free boxed lunches. You can ask the local catering companies that provide supplies, and if this continues, there will be no free boxed lunches. Many people stay at home, watching the grassroots staff busy, organizing nucleic acid tests, contacting transportation, notifying home isolation, and registering cases, feeling it is only natural. But if the grassroots staff find that the tasks are increasing and the wages are decreasing, and even there are arrears, how long do you think they can last? They are all people, they all have to earn money to live.
There is such a thought-provoking sentence online, “It is hard to imagine that cities often implement silence, people do not work, do not study, do not operate, do not consume, stay at home and wait for zeroing, isn’t this just sitting and eating empty?” What is even more incredible is that some people actually call this “people first”.
Zhejiang propaganda analysis is still thorough, “People first” is not “epidemic prevention first”, we cannot use epidemic prevention as a pretext to despise people’s livelihood and economy and people’s lives, and we cannot condone “only COVID-19 is a disease, other diseases are irrelevant”. The only purpose of fighting the epidemic is to benefit the people.
I said to my classmate in Guangzhou, in fact, the people’s opinions are not consistent, some people ask for opening up, and some people ask for home isolation. He said that we must first understand that opening up is the norm, it is a right that everyone has, and home isolation is an abnormal state. It is okay for people who ask for home isolation to voluntarily give up their rights, but they cannot ask others to give up this right. I listened and that’s it, a knowledgeable person can make a complex relationship clear with one sentence, I am really not as good as others.
The classmate also believes that the reason why Guangzhou can successfully break through is because Guangdong’s economy is too important. This year, the country’s overall adjustment of funds, Guangdong paid the most, accounting for 40%. What is the adjustment fund for? It is to fill the pension gap. If Guangdong cannot come up with this money, it is possible that the pensions in Northeast China will not be paid.
Some people think that I am eating social security, I am eating government food, it is best to be sealed for another year, everyone should not work, and wait until the virus is gone before going out. He just doesn’t think about where the money comes from? The latest news is that Chongqing added more than 6,500 new positive cases yesterday, and today, in addition to high-risk areas, it has also been fully unsealed, and it is completely open, shopping malls, restaurants, farmers’ markets, cinemas, KTVs, and bathhouses, those who want to operate can operate, without checking any nucleic acid certificates, as long as the green code is enough.
There is also Shenzhen, the top student in epidemic prevention, which has insisted on requiring 24-hour nucleic acid testing since April, and today it has suddenly removed 2/3 of the testing sites, and nucleic acid certificates are no longer checked in general public places.
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