The seven-day quarantine in Shenzhen has ended. Shenzhen issued a notice on March 20. Shenzhen has completed three rounds of nucleic acid testing, basically achieving zero social status, and orderly restoration of social production and living order on Monday.
Hong Kong announced on the same day that it would suspend nationwide testing. Depending on the situation of the epidemic, the restrictions on gatherings will be relaxed in three phases starting from April 21.
This is indeed a two-city tale, a tale of order versus disorder. Shenzhen is orderly, Hong Kong is disorderly.
Out of eleven districts in Shenzhen, five districts achieved dynamic clearing after four days of ban, and partial unblocking three days earlier. By the end of the seventh day, most other areas have basically returned to normal. In terms of transportation, buses and subways have fully resumed operation. It is just that some areas in Futian District, the outbreak area, that have not yet been dynamically cleared, continue to implement control measures.
Shenzhen’s non-living must closed places continue to be suspended, such as student child care institutions, offline education and training institutions, etc., continue to suspend services.
All kinds of catering establishments in Shenzhen are open for dine-in at a 50% current limit, and key gathering places are open in an orderly manner under the premise of strict implementation of epidemic prevention measures. Entering and exiting various public places (including restaurants), taking public transportation, etc., must present a negative certificate of 48-hour nucleic acid test. The enforcement mechanism for compulsory national testing in the mainland is hidden in the “health code”. After Shenzhen reopens, entering shopping malls and restaurants must “brighten the code”, “scan the venue code” and “with a 48-hour nucleic acid negative certificate” to enter the venue. If you haven’t done the third round of national testing, you won’t be able to go anywhere.
Hong Kong people love food and freedom. In contrast, I found that Shenzhen is very free, but Hong Kong is not free. Take eating in a restaurant as an example, Shenzhen has been cleared for a long time, basically long-term breakfast, lunch and dinner are open for a long time, and there is no more than eight people per one limit. The outbreak of the epidemic in Shenzhen this time has restricted going out to eat for at most seven days, and then it has returned to normal. This kind of short-term ban, even if there is no subway or bus, it will be much easier, and after seven days, you will be a hero again.
In Hong Kong, on the other hand, since January 7, the ban on gatherings and dine-in in the evening market has been tightened. Even if dine-in in the evening market can really be reopened on April 21, it has been suspended for three and a half months, and it has been “half-footed” for three and a half months. I don’t know when I want to return to Shenzhen where I can eat at a table for eight people. Of course, I don’t want to have hundreds of confirmed cases a day on April 21st, and I’m forced to postpone the opening and restricting gatherings, but who can say what’s going on in Hong Kong.
If the bad guys pay a little attention to the situation in Hong Kong, they will know that if Shenzhen fails to find these 643 cases, just like Hong Kong did not decisively conduct nationwide testing in January, the epidemic will get out of control and the cost of life will be staggering. , the economic cost is staggering, and the freedom cost is staggering. If Hong Kong had banned all testing for seven days, 5,000 people would not have died, the gathering would not have to be restricted for three and a half months, and there would have been no loss of over 100 billion. Why not stop testing earlier?
Some people do stupid numerical analysis, saying all day long that nationwide testing is inefficient, and only over 600 infected people were found after testing more than 10 million people. Then travel through time and space, saying that when the Hong Kong epidemic is out of control, it is very efficient to find hundreds of confirmed diagnoses in one building. If these idiots studied statistics or research methodology in college, I don’t know how they qualified. To do nationwide testing at the beginning of the epidemic is to find out all the infected people and stop the epidemic in its infancy, rather than to detect as many confirmed cases as possible.
The Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China held a meeting on March 17 to analyze the situation of the new crown epidemic. General Secretary Xi Jinping emphasized that “persistence is victory”, expressing that the dynamic clearing policy must be persisted. Obviously, Hong Kong cannot meet the requirement of “persistence is victory”.
The state of Hong Kong’s anti-epidemic situation is described by mainland friends as “breaking the jar and falling”, which means that the jar has been broken, and it has been thrown into the broken and left unchecked.
It’s no wonder that mainland expert Liang Wannian said in an interview with the media after inspecting Hong Kong’s anti-epidemic work that Hong Kong’s anti-epidemic “can’t step on the rind of a watermelon and sneak anywhere.” This is indeed a vivid portrayal of Hong Kong’s fight against the epidemic.
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