novelsite Chapter 628, Leisure Daily in the Plague Period
Chapter 628, Leisure Daily in the Plague Period
Chapter 28. Leisurely daily life during the plague period
Finally, turn our attention to China's close neighbor, the great nation bathed in the water of the Ganges, and the most populous democratic country in the world - India!
As the birthplace of this global "super pandemic", the epidemic in India is naturally not optimistic, and it can even be said to be extremely serious.
——This country located in the subcontinent of South Asia has a hot and humid climate, extremely dense population, poor sanitary conditions, and poor awareness of epidemic prevention. Therefore, it has long been a nest of viruses, a paradise for bacteria, and of course a disaster for human beings.
Theoretically, India has a very advanced universal free medical system, but in fact, due to the lack of funding and insane corruption, most of India's public hospitals are in name only.The public hospitals in big cities are famous for being dirty and messy, and the technical level of doctors is also quite poor. Minor ailments can be treated so-so, but serious ones can only wait for death.There was also a scandal in the public hospitals in the capital Delhi, where a bunch of well-behaved mothers were killed by quack doctors.The public hospital in the countryside simply has only one dilapidated house, and doctors and nurses have been missing all year round.
Although the medical level of private hospitals is a bit decent, it may be difficult to afford the expenses of private hospitals with the meager income of ordinary Indians.Even in normal times, there are many poor Indians who turn minor ailments into serious illnesses, and serious illnesses into terminal illnesses... Now that the T-virus outbreak is happening, the situation is even more miserable. In the slums of big cities like Mumbai and Calcutta, They are all piled up with corpses that are too late to be buried, and the countryside has become a hellish scene full of corpses. The death toll across the country is soaring at a rate of tens of thousands every day.
Faced with such a doomsday-like scene, if it were in East Asia or Europe and the United States, the government would have declared a state of emergency.But in amazing India, the government's response is... basically nothing!
No way, on this continent saturated with "democracy and freedom", Indian politicians have always been keen to give play to their national characteristics of "talking guns", often arguing about trivial matters.For example, if the government wants to build a subway in the city center, it needs to acquire land and remove some residents.In China, negotiations are usually first, and most of the good people who are easy to dismiss are coaxed away, and the remaining "nail households" who refuse to leave, there are urban management for the white, and street hooligans for the black, in addition to the offensive of public opinion and the pressure of the masses. No way, just push it with a bulldozer.
But it doesn’t work in India. Politicians will gather together to vote and hold a meeting. If the residents refuse to move—generally speaking, even if everyone is obedient, there will probably be opponents secretly inciting troubles and stuffing money. Create a few nail households, and then this matter will not be easy to handle.Many "conscientious politicians" will definitely use this topic to quarrel, and those who support it will definitely oppose it. Then it will evolve into a struggle between several political groups, and the original project will be gradually forgotten by everyone. up.So the politicians kept arguing on the stage, and the local people continued to do what they should do.After several years, everyone woke up and saw that none of the planned projects had been done at all, and several years were wasted in vain.
Next, those Indian politicians began to quarrel with each other about who was responsible for "delaying the business", triggering a protracted football fight, which could not be finished in a few years.We have to wait until the next thing comes out to temporarily end this boring endless loop.
Therefore, in the past half a century since India's independence, only a few thousand kilometers of railways have been built in total... It is very different from China.
Of course, it’s not that Indians are not without vigorous and resolute times when they engage in infrastructure construction. When those big consortiums need land, they directly dispatch bulldozers and “vigorous social groups” to carry out sweeping operations with full armed forces, and they don’t pay a dime for land acquisition. Just talk about hitting up with knives, guns and sticks, and at the same time bulldoze the houses of those unscrupulous people, crush to death those who cannot escape, and then ransack the survivors who survived before mercifully allowing them to leave alive.
In short, India is such a democratic country full of "conscientious literati and politicians" and "vigorous social groups". It is useless to count on the government for most things, and can only be resolved by force by civil groups.Official affairs are always so procrastinating, and ordinary people have no sense of time, and think that everything in the real world is illusory, and the afterlife depicted in religion is real—as early as thousands of years ago, Indians I am used to living this kind of life, and because of this, I have Hinduism with local characteristics, and Buddhism, which is also invincible. Anyway, I live a good life in words and forget the reality in reality. pain.Although most of the poor are hungry every day, they are still living happily, starving to death and dying of illness with peace of mind... They are called "a group of two-legged humanoids" by international critics.
At this time when the plague is raging, the style of the Indian government is still the same - the ruling party proposes to implement a strict isolation policy, and the opposition party immediately calls for the protection of the human rights of the poor. As for whether they will die of illness, no one cares.Then, the ruling party wanted to organize free medical measures and distribute some cold medicines to the whole people for free. The media immediately detonated a series of corruption cases: those engaged in procurement were charged back to buy expired fake medicines, and the medicines in charge of distribution were embezzled and resold to private hospitals. And all kinds of scandals about falsified accounting books... It made a big fuss.
Anyway, judging from the results, so far, none of the free cold medicines provided by the Indian government have been distributed, but some kind-hearted landlords and rich people have organized some charitable activities, paying out of their own pockets for poor people who are too poor to wear clothes Handed out some aspirin or something.
In addition, although there is no clear order from the central government, rich areas of big cities have begun to spontaneously erect barbed wire and roadblocks, and mobilize armed personnel from nowhere to patrol day and night to prevent sick poor people from sneaking in and polluting the breath of the old men. air.
But what is amazing is that despite such weak official measures, the mood of ordinary Indians is still very stable. Even if thousands of people die every day, there is no sign of riots, but they are silently enduring all suffering—— ——I have to admit that from the manager's point of view, these Indians are still very cute.Although the work is a bit lazy (someone commented brilliantly: Indians are the laziest people in the world. Even when a dog squats down, it will sweep it with its tail, while Indians just sit there), He also likes to brag, but he has a good temper. Even if he is treated like a cow or a horse, he can still treat life with a smile. Even if he is hungry, he rarely takes extreme measures.
What is even more surprising is that even in this situation where there is a shortage of doctors and medicines, the infection rate of Indians is not particularly high in terms of absolute ratio, and it is actually similar to that of China.It's just because the medical methods can't keep up, the death rate after contracting the disease will be many times higher.
Among the domestic news websites that Wang Qiu landed on, a translation from The Economist magazine was reprinted, which compared the epidemic prevention measures and social conditions of China and India, praised the optimism and disease tolerance of the Indian people, and ridiculed The fuss and neuroticism of the Chinese, and a graph showing that the average infection rate in the two countries is actually similar (the death rate is ignored).In the end, there are two contrasting photos: one is a dilapidated small village in India, the poor people in the village are all starving and skinny, shirtless, tanned by the sun, but still smiling happily at the camera; the other One is the streets of big cities in China. Even though it is midsummer, everyone is still wearing thick masks, with gloomy eyes.
Under these two photos, all the domestic netizens exploded with gusto.
"...My God! Can't melamine and waste oil make us more invincible than Indians?
Reply to the upstairs: Melamine and waste oil want to beat the sacred water of the Ganges! ! !Sao Nian, you are so naive!
Reply to the poster: one is biological, the other is chemical, which one do you think is more poisonous?
Reply upstairs: How did you forget that "China famous brand xx fresh milk, 100% pure melamine, no milk?"
Reply upstairs: But you don’t know that the Chinese famous brand is jointly operated with the New Zealand famous brand. After continuing the Chinese famous brand, the New Zealand famous brand also found melamine, and it was in their dairy products and high-end products—the kind that is added to milk powder Added lactoferrin, then what?New Zealand officials said: We cannot tell you which company this is.Then, the Chinese company closed down, and the New Zealand one continued to be regarded as a "safe substitute for domestic milk powder" by many people as a savior~ In fact, you just changed the jar, dears..."
"...Hey, no matter what, according to my travel experience in India, the anti-drug MAX can't resist the Ganges water of freedom and democracy...
Reply upstairs: The ability to resist chemical poisons cannot resist bacteria and viruses, which are two completely different resistances! "
"...how can you say that the holy Ganges is dirty? You have to say that the Ganges contains everything!!
Reply to the upstairs: The Ganges is a natural ecology, and a little improvement is probiotics.Melamine, directly sublimating people into biochemical human Mu Q! "
"...The Economist dares to compare India with China?! India is a democratic country where the flag of freedom is flying. The Indian people are free to starve to death, beggars, and live in slums as long as they want Still free to spit and defecate. Indian women are also free to have children, free to let them die of starvation and malnutrition. Indian media publishes and prints freely and they never lie because they are free. Even And their cows are free too, oh no, not just cows, their monkeys, elephants, donkeys, chickens, mice are free, they are free on highways and city streets day and night Walking around, no matter where they are, they are free to shit everywhere. India is a great and free country! How can it be compared to some dictatorial and corrupt country?
Reply upstairs: The third brother is so rich that only freedom is left... the freedom of [-] million people and one billion livestock!
Reply upstairs: Freedom? Can I eat it?
Reply to the upstairs: In the greatest democratic and free country, you can get high and eat people's faces..."
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Reading these more and more mindless bullying on the webpage, Wang Qiu couldn't help but shook his head with a wry smile.
——How should I put it, at least 90% of Chinese people don't know what democracy is, but draw a formula in their minds "election (direct election) = democracy", but they don't know that even the US president and the Japanese prime minister Not directly elected...
Also, in the minds of many Chinese, what is not available is always good.As long as it is not available or rare, it can be sold at a good price, even if it is just a box.So even if it is the "freedom" in the slums of India, there are still a group of Chinese who are extremely envious of it, and they are extremely sought after verbally, as if they can't wait to put on their wings and immediately fly over to share the "free air" with the curry-smelling Indian pariah. ".
But, after this "freedom" is really obtained, it immediately becomes nothing.Because it's the freedom to die, the freedom to starve, the freedom to be mass murdered by the rich, the freedom to spend other people's money, the freedom to live in filth... who can take it?
But there is no way, what is filled in a person's mind, what is the world he sees, as for the real reality?does it matter
To put it simply, everyone likes to fantasize about a perfect heaven in their hearts, and some petty bourgeoisie who claim to be sober never seem to be afraid to kill people for their own fantasies, and shout aggressively on the Internet, It seems that they are about to rise up to overthrow the government and start a revolution.But in fact, apart from cursing viciously, these guys never planned to do it themselves, but hoped that "spirited men" who thought the same as him would be cannon fodder, and other "spirited men" also had the same idea... So, In the end, nothing always happens...
In the final analysis, the biggest ideological problem for the Chinese people at present is the all-round inferiority complex caused by the long-term backwardness of the country and the poverty of the society. There is a good joke: there are only two countries in the world, China and China. foreign.So China’s comparison target is the whole world, which makes Chinese people’s lives really tiring. They have to compare sports with blacks, and compare technology with whites. They have to compare cars with Germany, and compare software with the United States. Compare electronics with Japan, compare beauty with Korea, compare massage with Thailand, compare democracy with India, compare welfare with Northern Europe, compare primitive style with Africa, compare forests with South America, compare milk with New Zealand, and compare beef with Argentina Comparing football with Brazil, gangsters with Mexico, nuclear bombs with Russia, aristocrats with Britain, turmoil with France, spaghetti with Italy...
After such a comparison, it is natural to be discouraged everywhere, as if everything in China is not worth mentioning.Hundreds of years have passed since the hatred of subjugation and genocide, but everyone still calls themselves "numb Chinese", but they don't know that they have already been called "Chinese imperialists" by the island country across the East China Sea!
However, this kind of self-confidence in the bones cannot be cultivated overnight.Even the majestic American bald eagle was already the largest country in the world in terms of GDP as early as the end of the nineteenth century, but in the decades before World War II, wasn't it scared to death in the face of European powers?
Not to mention the current China, even the most economical is the second child. As for military strength and international influence, I am afraid it is not as good as the Russian bear whose camel is bigger than a horse... Hey, I want to rebuild the subconscious National self-confidence is really a long way to go!