Jassim suggested that forgoing treatment for infected people is undoubtedly the most effective way to protect the majority of people. After all, we don't know what the pathogen is and how to treat it, and putting doctors in contact with patients could cause more infections. But after carefully weighing the pros and cons, I categorically rejected Jassim's suggestion. I analyzed Jassim: "If you do what you suggest, it will inevitably cause uncontrollable panic. As soon as there is a great panic, people will no longer work, they will no longer follow order, and everything we have built will immediately collapse. Even if we could find a place to hide and avoid being infected, we would not be able to get food, we would not be able to get the protection of others, and we would not be able to escape death. ”

Jassim asked pitifully, "But what then?" We can't save the infected, we can infect the doctors. ”

I gritted my teeth and said to him, "If we can't save it, we have to act like it's the only way for us to live." At the very least, we must not completely lose hope so that we can continue to live on this collective. So if you dare to reveal to anyone else what you just said, I will not hesitate to kill you. ”

Jassim shuddered and hurriedly said, "I will never tell anyone else." Then he raised his hand and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

Seeing that Jassim was frightened, I said, "Then let's go and see the situation in those isolation wards, and tell the doctors to do their best to save the infected people, and at the same time strengthen protection." ”

Jassim heard that I was going to the isolation ward, and cold sweat once again covered his forehead. His head shook like a rattle: "Don't, don't." It's too dangerous! ”

Alas, in this case, others can hide, but the person in charge can't hide. Not only can you not hide, but you must also come forward to make up your mind, otherwise people's hearts will be scattered and the team will not be able to take it. Eventually, Dr. Li and I went to the isolation ward, where we learned about the patient's condition from a few doctors who had just taken off their protective suits. It seems that the situation is very critical, the first patient to show symptoms has shown signs of exhaustion, and at the same time, four other people who had only a fever have also developed obvious symptoms, some are Daqitang, some are the Three Stars Gang, and some are Japanese. From these phenomena, doctors have judged that they are facing a virulent infectious disease that they have never seen before.

As a doctor, you definitely understand what this means. So I didn't pretend to them, and I just repeated what I said to Jassim to them. Let them know that if our group is distracted by the panic of the epidemic, they will die of starvation or something even if they survive the epidemic, and they will not be able to be Robinson. Therefore, they must make every effort to save everyone, and if there is no medical plan, they must be a dead horse doctor, and even if they cannot be saved, they must be treated as experiments, and they must emancipate their minds and use their brains.

The doctors were also well aware of our precarious situation, with one doctor saying, "We're on the train of the Cassandra Bridge, there's no way back." Now let's get to work. ”

With the tragic sense of fighting against the water, these doctors instantly completed the role change, from a group of polite scholars to pig killers, and soon came up with a treatment plan that can be called crazy. The combination of antibiotics inhibits concurrent infection, a large dose of hormones protects the organs, and a large amount of vitamins is given at the same time, combined with acupuncture, scraping and other therapies. If their professors saw this plan, they would have jumped up and accused them of abusing antibiotics and using large doses of hormones, which is even more intolerable. But now all this is not taken care of, saving the lives of these patients is important, and the rest will have to be talked about later.

The efforts of the doctors seemed insignificant in the face of the ferocious epidemic, and by the evening the number of people with fever had reached more than 40, and the number of symptoms had reached as many as 10 even more quickly. At the same time, there was also an epidemic at the base. Looking at the distribution of patients, most of us have had direct or indirect contact with them. Today, there are also reports of birds suddenly falling from the sky and falling to their deaths, the birds behave similarly to people with symptoms, it seems that the pathogen has begun to infect animals, and the quarantine measures can basically be declared invalid. The situation was already very urgent, and I held a closed-door conference call at the command center to inform everyone of the situation and arrange prevention and control measures. In view of the fact that the number of cases may soon reach a frightening number, and that although the proportion of doctors and nurses among us is relatively high, it is difficult for them to take care of all the patients alone, so we have decided not to move the patients to the outside of the trenches for isolation, but to set aside several buildings for the placement of the patients, and to assign personnel to assist the doctors and nurses in caring for the patients.

In order to calm people's hearts, we used loudspeakers to inform everyone of the epidemic situation and told everyone that taking anti-cold Chinese patent medicine can prevent infection. Of course, no one knows whether proprietary Chinese medicine can prevent infection, but convincing everyone can help us buy time and delay the outbreak of panic.

At the time of the meeting, the duty officer reported new news on television news and radio. At noon, after Brazil, Colombia, Argentina and Mexico, the US television news also announced a highly lethal outbreak, which has spread widely. The announcement by a spokesman based in Hawaii at this time was even more striking. He said that after multiple investigations, it was confirmed that the cause of the current outbreak was a bioweapons-grade avian influenza virus developed by a private company in Jinshan City whose name I had never heard of. As for why the virus escaped the lab, he attributed it to the Mexicans destroying the company's lab during an exchange of fire with militia in the city of Kanayama.

The spokesman pointed out that this weapon-level virus is extremely deadly, and there is no effective means of control, so as a responsible power, in order to prevent the spread of the virus, the United States will seal the borders of Hawaii and Alaska and prohibit anyone from entering or leaving the country. The blockade was not just rhetoric, and the next thing was the announcement by the officers of the Department of Defense that the aircraft carrier battle group would be cruising the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, and that aircraft and ships would open fire as soon as they spotted the Americas.

Such drastic measures are the death sentences for the vast majority of people on this continent? The people in the surveillance room were staring at the TV screen in disbelief, but I'm sure they didn't hear what was going on at all, just like me.

"Why is that?" When one person screamed, everyone was awakened, and the monitoring room was in chaos, and some of the female self-defense team members even started crying.

Something is going to happen if it goes on like this! I yelled, "Cheer up!" ”

Probably because my voice was too loud, and all of a sudden everyone looked at me. I said out loud, "What's the use of crying? We have less than a hundred people to average a doctor, and we have plenty of medicines! If you used to have to queue up at the hospital, but now you can be treated immediately even if you are infected. So being infected is not a sure death. The point is that we have to pick ourselves up and try to survive. We need more medicines, more medical devices! We have to collect these things now, and if we don't act right away, we're really hopeless! ”

Some people took courage from my words and returned to their posts. There are still people who are still depressed, but I don't have time to comfort them one by one. An effective way to deal with panic is to find something for everyone to do, and people can't think too much when they are busy. Without giving these people a chance to spread panic, I immediately addressed everyone. I talked about how dire the situation we are facing, but then I tell people that we need to find more medicines, more medical equipment, and make them feel as if we can get through the crisis that we are facing. This is the art of speaking, and when I am forced to helpless, I can speak all kinds of nonsense very smoothly.

Then I put jobs on people so they couldn't sit back and think.

This was effective, at least until June 2, and although people continued to fall ill and die, the overall order was normal. But on June 3, when there were more than 200 patients, the unease finally flinched. At this point, I was forced to tell the lie that Jassim's lab had studied a similar virus, so he would find a way to control it in a few days.

The people, comforted by this lie, maintained order for a few more days. When the number of patients exceeded 500 on June 4, the situation was again at risk of spiraling out of control. Luckily, two of the patients who had the original illness were still alive at this time, and I pressed the doctors to announce that they might have found a cure. At the same time, I had to throw out another lie, saying that Indian grass could definitely deal with this virus.

Theoretically, the ingredients in Indian grass should indeed be effective against this virus, but the amount of that ingredient in natural herbs is too small, and I just give you a hope that you can last a few more days. In order to make a good performance, I also took people out of the city to the mountains of Nevada to pick a lot of Indian grass, and brought it back to make soup for everyone to drink.

Although all of us in charge are trying to maintain order, chaos is inevitable. A lot of people started to resign themselves to fate, and some people tried to steal everyone's food and then find a place to hide. Fortunately, we nippled these signs in the bud.

What I didn't expect was that this state of panic actually made me pick up a big bargain, Angelia and Jennifer, who were in a state of resignation, actually found me when they were having fun in time, and Nicol didn't say anything!

But this kind of good days will come to an end on June 11. Because it was the second day, there were no new fever patients in our people. It's so strange that most of us are fine. Just as I was breathing a sigh of relief, Garand radioed me and told me to go to the base immediately, something was wrong.