153. The world is sick
The conflict between Hua Zhenxing and Locke fully reflects a way of thinking, that is, you ponder yours, I do mine, and grasp the main contradiction and do not relax. Whatever O'Haim wanted to do in the port of Africa, the first thing they thought of was how to do their own thing and extend the policy of the Kling District to the whole of the port as soon as possible.
Several people chatted for a long time in the car, and Rogrid personally sent the two to the hotel where the new alliance team stayed, and left a document for Hua Zhenxing before saying goodbye, reminding him:
"You'll understand why O'Haim is in such a hurry. He can't afford to wait, there are too many people in this world who can't afford to wait, and are thinking of various ways. ”
Locke did not go back to the Fogen Foundation's own manor, but came to the hotel on purpose, just to "report work" to Yang Tehong and others, and by the way, hold another working meeting to formally put forward the suggestion he just made in the car.
Yang Tehong and several senior executives of Huanxiang Industry all looked at the materials provided by Rogrid.
Old man Yang said expressionlessly: "Xiaohua, you go back and tell Dr. Luo that you are ready to short the shares of Oheim Pharmaceutical Group." Whether he can take the opportunity to buy this group depends on his own means and luck. ”
Hua Zhenxing, who had recovered to his original appearance, asked, "What should Dr. Luo do?" ”
Yang Tehong: "What to do is his own business, you don't have to worry about it, no matter whether it is success or failure, you just need to understand the process, now you just need to pass him a word." ”
Hua Zhenxing: "I know, I'll tell him when I turn around, saying that it's your old man's reminder." ”
Hua Zhenxing knows Old Man Yang very well, he is usually always smiling, and when he blows his beard and glares, he is not necessarily really angry, but when his face is expressionless, he is actually in a very unhappy mood.
In the information provided by Rohard, the impact of the epidemic in Belle Country was also mentioned, and Hua Zhenxing couldn't believe it, but it was the case.
During the 10 months of the 10 million population in Beli country, more than 12,000 people have died due to the epidemic, with a mortality rate of more than 1 in 1,000, an average of 40 deaths per day, and recently reached a peak, with a daily death toll of nearly 200.
Is this really a prosperous and developed country? It looks so similar, but why is it so fragile?
There are 500,000 people in the port of Africa, which is one-twentieth of the population of Belli, and if you follow this ratio, there will be an average of two deaths a day due to the epidemic, but in reality there are none.
According to the information obtained by Hua Zhenxing, after the heavy rainy season, there is no epidemic in the port of Africa. This is not to say that there are no other epidemics of diseases in the port of Africa, nor that the medical conditions in the port are very good, but a series of special reasons.
Port Fesot is a forgotten corner of the world, like an isolated island, where almost no one else has visited in previous years, except for the southern coastal area, where overseas tourists have visited.
This year, due to the worldwide epidemic, the number of tourists to the southern seaside of Port Fesot is almost zero, and several hotels and leased estates have been closed.
The three-month-long heavy rainy season naturally cut off traffic to the outside world, and there was little movement of people between neighborhoods.
Since the beginning of this year, the visitors to Fensogang can be counted on almost every finger, first with Mr. Tinzi, then with "Feng Zibin" and his entourage, then with Flick and Mr. Wind, and with the Forgan Foundation monks.
Huanxiang Industry also planned to transport several boatloads of people from Mande Country and other places, almost all of them were Chinese of Eastern descent like Huang Cansheng and Li Xiaoyang who were in trouble in the Black Wilderness Continent.
Old man Yang came forward to guarantee that this group of people would not bring about the epidemic, and since he said so, he can be reassured. Moreover, Huanxiang Industry has also taken corresponding inspection and control measures on passenger ships, and the implementation of all government decrees has been unhindered within the scope of Klin District.
The epidemic once made the construction site of Dongguo seem to be a big enemy, but after a heavy rainy season, the epidemic in the port of Africa has disappeared, at least in every neighborhood, which is the conclusion reached by Mo Shangtong after a comprehensive investigation.
There is still a virus in Port Africa, there should still be one, probably in the laboratory of an international hospital.
Two people die every day, which is nothing in Afso-Harbour, where people die every day from various accidents, such as homicide, smoking, disease, malnutrition, injuries and infections.
There are no accurate statistics on the annual mortality rate in Afso-So, but it is certainly high, and the birth rate here is also very high, and raising children is just to feed the mouth, and there are almost no other costs of raising and educating them.
The high mortality rate and high birth rate have resulted in a young population in the port of Africa, where life expectancy is in the early thirties and the average age is less than 20.
But in recent times, no one has died from the latest epidemic in the world.
There is also a data that Hua Zhenxing has mastered, and it is amazing, the mortality rate in Klin District in the past three months is actually zero! In other words, in the last three months, there has not been a single death of more than 100,000 people in Klin District, which is a miracle in the local area.
This miracle is the result of many factors and is also a coincidence. For example, the law and order situation has improved, and some time ago, the "Love City Health Campaign" was vigorously promoted in the Klin District, and the weapons were confiscated to expel addicts, and the population structure is very young......
It seems that the average life expectancy of the Klin District will be rewritten from now on, and Locke also pointed out at the meeting that he is confident that the average life expectancy of the Port of Africa will be increased by at least 20 years by controlling the municipal government of the Port of Africa and fully implementing the policy of the Kling District.
Only if you are expected to live long enough can you have a long-term plan.
If someone has a companion who doesn't live to be 30 years old, doesn't even have a reliable elder, and doesn't think he will live past 30, what reliable vision can you expect him to have in life? If everyone is like that, what hope is there for this place?
Afso-Porto was sick, once desperately ill, and is now in the process of being cured.
On the other hand, Beli has been suffering from low mortality rates, low birth rates, and a serious aging population for decades, and many nationals are no longer willing to engage in so-called low-end labor, so they have begun to introduce immigrants, which has also led to a series of social problems.
The continuous decline in the relative birth rate of the Juche ethnic group is not a good phenomenon, and over time the country will definitely have problems. But Belliguo is now suffering from another problem, unable to control the epidemic.
The higher mortality rates in this epidemic are mainly the elderly population with weak resistance and the poor population with poor sanitation, so it has also given rise to many conspiracy theories, such as deliberately conniving at the spread of the epidemic and carrying out social elimination and burden reduction programs.
But the so-called mortality rate is only a probability, even if it is a strong young person and a successful person in high society, who dares to guarantee that they and their relatives and friends will be absolutely safe? So it's not that you don't want to control it, it's that you really can't control it!
Hua Zhenxing They have been in Brussels for half a month, and three days ago it was a clear divide.
When I first arrived, I hardly saw the impact of the pandemic, and it was business as usual except for wearing masks when going out and maintaining social distancing of more than one metre from strangers.
Three days ago, the Beli government issued the latest round of strict control measures, requiring local residents to work from home as much as possible, and various restrictions were imposed on going out, and entertainment and leisure venues were also closed.
At the beginning of the year, Beli had actually had such a wave of control, but it did not last too long, and the actual situation proved that it was not really controlled.
For this round of control, if the actual situation does not change, the result should be the same as the previous round, which even Hua Zhenxing can foresee.
For such an epidemic, it is meaningless to take symbolic measures without strict and thorough control, and it is more like a gesture shown by the rulers to the people and political opponents, indicating that I have taken action.
If you want to be strict and thorough, you really can't do it! The government has no control over all the grassroots levels, and in many places the governance of neighborhoods has been ceded to various private institutions and civil society organizations, and even in places like Brusse, there are individual neighborhoods that are actually out of control.
The country is too small, and the process of integration and global trade liberalization in the region has led to a significant increase in the movement of people, and it is difficult to prevent foreign imports by controlling it alone, unless the borders are closed at the same time.
Even during the strictest period of control, there were still people who did not comply with the epidemic prevention regulations, claiming that it was a conspiracy, a hoax, going out without masks, holding various rallies and protests.
As long as someone does this, the efforts of most others to comply with the epidemic prevention rules will be in vain.
What causes this? Some say individualism, liberalism and anti-intellectualism, others say that the government has no control over the grassroots, these factors are all there, but they are not the essence.
What kind of individualism and liberalism can disregard the safety of others and think that they have the right to go to bars without wearing masks? But does he have the freedom not to work for the capital group?
Individually, it seems that there is, as long as you choose not to work and wander the streets, but in a normal society, this is not the case for everyone, and from a group point of view, there is no such freedom at all.
In these so-called modern countries, thrift is no longer a virtue, and the media controlled by the capitalist groups is pervasive and spares no effort to promote consumerism.
The purpose is to allow people to overdraft their income at all times and consume products; At all times, they have to sell their labor power to produce products for the capital group.
People are constantly in a state of spending hunger, paying off the bills of the previous month and the previous month every month, and once they lose their jobs, they immediately fall into financial crisis, and everything they have can be reclaimed.
The capital groups don't care if someone is unemployed or not, they want to construct a social state in which everyone has to work overtime for them. As long as they want to hire the people they need, there are always enough social groups to choose from.
The proletarians, even those who already consider themselves to be the elite of society, are entangled in it, and they have no internal circulation ability to resist risks, so they have no other choice.
Such a state of society is not only desired by the capital group, but also deliberately created by them, but once the whole society is shut down, the cost cannot be beared, and no one can bear it.
In Brussels, for example, 80 percent of the city's employed population is in the service sector, and consumerism has been baptized for many years.
If strict and thorough control measures are implemented, even if it is only for one month, people who lose their jobs and lose their income will not be able to live for this month, let alone pay their bills for the previous month.
It is impossible for private organizations that normally provide paid social services to mobilize supplies and distribute them to thousands of households, and such a thing is neither profitable nor capable of doing anything for them.
Therefore, from a medical point of view, there is no way to truly implement the most effective control and isolation measures, otherwise society will collapse before the epidemic disappears.
So in Hua Zhenxing's view, the world is sick.
The greedy have been overdrawing the future so much that it is impossible to save the present, and an epidemic that does not depend on the will of man has exposed a lot of truth.
The wealth that capital gathers is money, and the means used are to control the pricing of assets, while more and more wealth is virtual. For example, the annual trading volume of gold futures in the world is 100 times that of actual gold production.
In the economics textbooks of universities around the world, the pricing method of the capital market has been clearly written, that is, the discounted cash flow model, which in principle is how much wealth will be brought in the future, so how much it is worth now.
But the wealth of the future does not exist yet, it needs to be created by the people of the future, and the world of the present is trading with this concept.
Hua Zhenxing thought of Rogrid again, he used to be an elite in society, saving lives and helping the injured when he was a doctor, what happened in the end? Today, Lord Rochard has made a fortune investing in medicine, but could he have ever developed or produced a drug himself?
Rogrid didn't do anything, he just played with financial capital. Yang Tehong asked Hua Zhenxing to remind Rochard that he was ready to short the shares of Ohaim Pharmaceutical Group, Hua Zhenxing did not turn a corner for a while, but Tang Senzhi helped him analyze and understand.
Rogrid is already a significant shareholder of the Ohaim Group, and can he still profit from the loss of the Ohaim Group's stock price?
On the surface, he can not sell his stocks, but secretly he can use another seemingly unrelated account to short, and he can also use financial leverage to maximize profits, as long as the stock falls, he can make a fortune.
At the right time, he used the money he earned from shorting to buy shares at a low price, so as to achieve the goal of controlling the group.
Can you still play like this? As long as you know for sure that the company's stock will fall, you can play like that! This is how the system of modern financial markets is designed, and a large number of financial derivatives are used to do this.
When everyone was discussing this material, Tang Senzhi opened his mouth to explain it to Xiaohua, which was regarded as a special lesson.