Yu Laoliu | Private Disaster Relief: Don’t be too strong on the “flavor” of the private group

“In recent days, Shimen County, Hunan Province, has been hit by heavy rainfall, affecting over 100,000 people. Many are worried about the disaster and pray for the affected people.”

The above is the beginning of the report from China News Weekly (Weibo) on May 25th, #China Women’s News voices for the female cadre wearing earrings#. The reason for putting it at the beginning of the article is to prevent someone from impatiently showing up and spraying me, saying that I am conducting reporting activities privately, violating regulations to spread texts about the disaster area, and creating negative public opinion.

Following the above beginning, the female village secretary with gold earrings was subjected to cyberbullying. This time, the cyberbullies have broadened their horizons, no longer focusing on whether the village secretary can afford gold earrings, but on why she should wear gold earrings. Isn’t this a blatant attempt to attract attention?

Only seeing the gold earrings, not seeing that her face still looks like a human being, to put it bluntly, it’s just a pig’s head. Even those who are not observant can see her tired face, knowing that she is tired, but some people are still not observant, and some institutions are even less observant, unable to see the 100,000 people in Shimen affected by the disaster, unable to see the road collapse, houses collapsing, and vehicles being washed away, only staring at the turtle’s rear of the soft-shelled turtle, and a new term “private disaster relief” was summarized by the media.

With such a large disaster, the rescue force in Shimen County is definitely not enough, nor is it enough for Changde City, at least for the whole of Hunan Province. If the brother provinces and cities can lend a helping hand, that would be even better. The brothers came, still three brothers, but these three brothers were hit with a heavy blow, making them dizzy and unable to distinguish between east, west, north, and south: Who are we, and what are we doing?

Who are you, you are the rescue team; what are you doing, you are doing the work of disaster relief. But in the eyes of the Supervision Department of Henan Blue Sky Rescue: the rescue team goes to the disaster relief, it’s not that you can rescue if you want to, you have to have “discipline”.

Many netizens support the notice of the Supervision Department of Henan Blue Sky Rescue, saying that without rules, there is no order, the regulations are here, not for you to mess around with. Indeed, cross-regional aid requires prior reporting and approval before departure, the biggest advantage of doing so is to avoid chaos at the rescue site. The criticism in the notice itself is not wrong, but why is it still being singled out by the media for public display? Ignoring the actual situation, the “surveillance flavor” is too strong.

Let’s take a look at the time the notice was issued: May 22nd, one of the contents is “Order the Yichuan, Yiyang, and Songxian rescue teams to withdraw immediately.” Let’s take a look at the time in the beginning of the article: May 25th, indicating that the disaster in Shimen County has not ended. The people have already gone, can’t you criticize them after they finish the rescue and come back?

Shimen County, Changde City, and even Hunan Province haven’t said that they are “private disaster relief”, and haven’t driven them away. The emperor is not in a hurry, but the eunuchs are. In some matters, the eunuchs are really more anxious than the emperor.

In the late Qing Dynasty, French envoy Roget met the emperor and criticized, “Your country’s eunuch system turns healthy people into disabled people, which is inhumane.” Before the emperor could speak, the personal eunuch Yao Yun interrupted: “This is the emperor’s grace, the slaves are willing, how can the envoy slander my Qing Dynasty law?!”

Although this story has been proven to be fabricated by later generations, it vividly depicts the image of the eunuchs at that time. If there was such a scene, those who could become personal eunuchs would definitely be the first to say these words.

The Supervision Department of Henan Blue Sky Rescue is really supervising, or rather, really angry, not because of the “private disaster relief” incident, but because of “violating regulations to film and spread on-site image data, creating negative public opinion”. Those who don’t know think that the Supervision Department of Henan Blue Sky Rescue has become the Propaganda Department or the Cyberspace Administration of Hunan Province, while those who know understand that they are just a non-governmental organization.

That’s right, you’re not mistaken, the so-called Blue Sky Rescue Team is a non-governmental organization. Non-governmental organizations should do non-governmental things, don’t worry about official matters, some things you can’t control, that requires a tool. One who originally has no tool, has to do things that he can’t do, and make sounds that he can’t make, will naturally be ridiculed and criticized. Fortunately, “Henan Blue Sky Rescue” is not thick-skinned and knows to delete this notice quickly.

Sit on what mountain, sing what song, don’t worry about things that are not your concern. If everyone is like the Supervision Department of Henan Blue Sky Rescue, what’s the point of supervision? They can’t even handle a small bayberry: 15 years ago, they said it was malicious hype; this year, they cried for a way out; in another 15 years, the bayberry will still be the same bayberry.