In a short period of time, SARS had a strong impact on China's economy, and the turnover of Shenzhou Technology and Xifeng Company declined significantly from April to May.

But in the midst of this trend, sales of Xifeng purified water, instant noodles and very cola have skyrocketed.

The reason why Xifeng purified water and instant noodles are selling well is because citizens panic and rush to buy goods, and in some big cities, these things are sold out in a short period of time. This phenomenon is especially evident in the capital, where rice, flour, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar ...... All of them are within the scope of the rush to buy, and the shelves of the major shopping malls are empty. A reporter interviewed an elderly couple who bought more than 6,000 yuan of grain and oil, and the other party replied: "We plan not to go out for a few months." ”

This situation can easily make the supply and marketing system collapse in a short period of time, the capital urgently transferred thousands of tons of grain, many well-known daily necessities manufacturers fully cooperated, 1.45 million business workers were on duty 24 hours a day, and finally resisted the biggest rush to buy on April 24. The reporter asked at the time: "If the people continue to rush to buy like this, how many days will the capital be able to withstand it?" The official responded: "Three days." The reporter asked again: "What is the result?" and the official replied: "It was only 30 hours of robbery." ”

The emptier the goods on the shelves, the more panicked the people become, and the more they want to rush to buy them. And when they found that there was always something on the shelves for sale, they immediately felt at ease, and the rush to buy naturally subsided.

In some other countries, it may be that the SARS epidemic has not yet collapsed the society, and the rush to buy has already caused chaos in the social order.

As for the sudden best-selling of Very Coke, it is particularly speechless to say. Just because there are traditional Chinese medicine ingredients such as licorice and white peony in the formula of very cola, many people have inexplicably bought it as medicine and drank it, and its popularity has almost caught up with mung beans.

By the beginning of June, the epidemic was clearly under control and people gradually returned to normal life, but the panic caused by the epidemic still continued.

A number of heroes who can sing and cry, and a short touching heroic story, emerged in the SARS epidemic. Countless medical workers deserve the title of angels in white, and they are really using their lives to interpret the two professions of doctors and nurses.

Of course, while the official publicized the heroic deeds, it was also very frank and reflective. For example, when the official press conference was held, it was very frank to announce: "There are more than 32,000 registered doctors and more than 34,000 nurses in Beijing, but there are less than 3,000 doctors and nurses who are familiar with respiratory medicine, accounting for only 4.3% of the total, and there is no special hospital in the entire capital that really treats respiratory infectious diseases." ”

The context of this situation is the fact that thousands of years of human struggle against infectious diseases have achieved gratifying achievements in modern times, which is known as the "first health revolution". Medical scientists around the world are focusing their energies on the study of cardiovascular diseases, cancer, and other common diseases, and if these diseases can be successfully curbed, a "second health revolution" will be ushered in. The prevention and treatment of large-scale infectious diseases has been neglected all over the world.

Thus, Xiaotangshan Hospital was born.

The Beijing Construction Committee temporarily convened six major groups for deployment, and the six major groups received construction orders at night and arrived at the construction site at dawn with migrant workers. There was no budget, no contract, no time to negotiate wages, and there were not even architectural drawings at first, so I started to do preliminary work such as leveling the land as soon as I arrived at the site.

4,000 migrant workers, not to mention food, did not even prepare drinking water, and they worked for a day and a night. When another 3,000 migrant workers came to help, they just lay down in the weeds to rest. Later, 4,500 quilts were urgently transferred from above, and they were notified to collect them, but no one moved, because the construction period was too tight - those who took the lead in the work and those who worked were working all the time, and they didn't even dare to sit in the back. In their words: "You sit and sleep, but you don't have time to sleep." ”

There was a construction worker named Zhao Zhigang, who finished his work at 3 a.m., holding a quilt and trying to find a place to sleep. It was still raining, and it was dark everywhere, and he fell headlong into the pit where the pipes were laid, and he fell asleep in the pit. If it hadn't been for the workers who buried the pipeline, Zhao Zhigang would have been buried alive by a bulldozer.

In just seven days and seven nights, a modern hospital with nearly 1,000 beds to meet the requirements for the treatment of respiratory infectious diseases struck up in the wilderness of the capital, and SARS patients from all over the capital were safely transferred, and the country's top respiratory infectious disease experts gathered here to tackle the problem.

Unite to tide over the difficulties together!

In June, the college entrance examination came ahead of schedule.

Why do you say early? Because in the past, the college entrance examination was held in July, but from this year it will be held in June.

The test takers then wailed, especially in mathematics. It seems that the national mathematics paper has been leaked, and the spare paper is temporarily activated, and those who can score 90 points are considered to have excellent results - Su Province, which is known as a strong province in the college entrance examination, has an average score of only 68 points in mathematics this year.

(Lao Wang remembered the high school homeroom teacher, who had just finished a third year of high school, and how about "Chen X" when he opened and closed his mouth.) Because "Chen X" is a student he brought out, the top student in science in the province, with a score of 137 in mathematics, this score can scare the candidates of that year. But Lao Wang's senior told reporters: "I also failed in this college entrance examination, and I only scored 137 in mathematics, which can be said to be a big failure." ”）

During the summer vacation, Song Weiyang took his family to Changbai Mountain to escape the summer, there was no SARS epidemic there, and by the way, he could also take Doudou to relax.

Doudou has not had an easy time in the past two months, he has to bring a thermometer to school every day, and he has to ask his parents to sign after taking his temperature at home, otherwise he won't even want to enter the school gate. Her mother Lin Wanzi was trapped in the capital and didn't dare to walk around, so she made a phone call every morning and evening, and the relationship between the mother and daughter became much more harmonious.

SARS has not completely passed, and the dispute between Chinese and Western medicine on the Internet has actually started.

Because in the middle and late stages of the fight against SARS, "integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine" was vigorously promoted, and even the Chinese Academy of Sciences said: "Western medicine combined with 'integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine therapy' can effectively improve the main clinical symptoms such as shortness of breath, dry cough, shortness of breath, and fatigue." The TCM experts even wrote a paper concluding that "the research group of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine treatment has 2 days less duration of shortness of breath, 2 days less duration of dry cough symptoms, and 1 day less duration of shortness of breath symptoms than the research group of Western medicine alone......

It just so happened that this paper caused controversy, Song Weiyang's major is compulsory statistics, and he could see that there was a problem with statistical sampling, how could the "Chinese medicine black" give up this opportunity?

In fact, due to the public's rush to buy banlan root and mung beans, home remedies such as "vinegar steaming" were also popular during the SARS period, which has caused many people to be dissatisfied with traditional Chinese medicine. In addition, the Ministry of Health praised the contribution of "integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine therapy" to the fight against SARS, so some people were indignant, feeling that traditional Chinese medicine was mixing credit in the whole process and stealing the limelight of Western medicine.

The problem is that the leaders are not stupid, from completely ignoring Chinese medicine at the beginning, to suddenly mobilizing a large number of top Chinese medicine experts for consultation, and especially recommending to the World Health Organization, it must be because of the effect to do so!

This controversy will continue for many years, as the hero of the fight against SARS, Academician Zhong has been used as a tool by "Chinese medicine black" and "Chinese medicine fans", and both sides are distorting the facts. Later, Academician Zhong said: "From SARS to avian flu, in the past ten years, I have gained a lot of inspiration from the therapeutic effects of traditional Chinese medicine...... However, I do not agree with the idea of 'integration of Chinese and Western medicine', because both Chinese and Western medicine have their own characteristics, and the most important thing to do at present is to 'integrate Chinese and Western medicine' and 'complement Chinese and Western medicine'. ”

The "black Chinese medicine black" immediately took it out of context, saying that Academician Zhong denied the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, and also denied traditional Chinese medicine, and Chinese medicine must be useless.

The "Chinese medicine fans" also only look at the news headlines, obviously in Academician Zhong's original words, they have affirmed the therapeutic effect of traditional Chinese medicine on SARS and avian influenza, and even believe that traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine should go hand in hand. But they collectively turned a blind eye, and instead thought that Academician Zhong denied traditional Chinese medicine, and some people personally attacked Academician Zhong on the Internet.

It can only be said that the reporters have a good rhythm, because the news headline they gave is: Academician Zhong opposes the integration of traditional Chinese and Western medicine!

Song Weiyang looked at the posts on the Internet that were hotly fought, and only felt that there were too many sand sculptures, and most of them sprayed directly regardless of the facts. This is the case for both black and powder Chinese medicine, the former devalues Chinese medicine to nothingness, and the latter praises Chinese medicine as a cure for all diseases, and it will only be a waste of time to read such posts.