the world is at stake

The projection hall was suddenly quiet, and all the people who could come in were 'wolves, tigers and leopards', and none of them were good stubblers.For 'Harden' who initiated this feast, everyone paid great respect and awe.

But this big man didn't ask for any exclusive benefits. This is not in line with the habitual cognition of the rich and powerful, and it is too abnormal.The other three people in the front row also wanted to ask the same question, but it was not very good to ask 'Harden' directly.

Sun Luoji smiled, "Your Excellency Harden pays attention to bringing everyone here together."

Power, prestige, connections, different words popped up in everyone's minds, but the meaning was the same - Harden wanted to be the central figure, and he did not hesitate to give up his financial interests.

Although this answer cannot be recognized by all participants, everyone has to admit that it seems that only a strong enough 'Harden' can handle such a large-scale plundering feast.

"Can we regulate the use of funds?" the Democrats asked.

"Of course, you can send financial personnel." Sun Luoji did not refuse, "but your people must accept our management to prevent the leakage of business information."

The use of more than 800 billion US dollars involves a wide range of areas, and it is by no means that Sun Luoji can control it alone.The explanation session lasted for two days, and half of the American elites were brought in to make a fortune together.

Because the plate was big enough, and enough forces joined, the number of operators of the 'Holy Light Fund' increased to nearly a hundred.Things are getting more professional and more reassuring for the participants.

Time is passing, when American media reporters began to report on the "unknown pneumonia" patients emerging in various states, when the U.S. Department of Health vowed that everything was under control, when the lives of civilians all over the world were threatened by the epidemic.

A group of people are cheering, and their property is about to skyrocket.

Chapter 86 Meaningless

The end of July 18.

Mount Sinai Hospital, Brooklyn, New York.

Mar Keshi was wearing a protective suit and was allowed to see his companion for the last time.But when he came to the isolation window of the ICU ward, what he saw was the hospital bed covered with white cloth, and the blood splashed beside the bed.

Under the white cloth was Geoffrey, once a stocky man, in the prime of his life.No one knows his specific identity, and no one knows what he did.

But Marcus knows...

In May, Jeffrey unleashed the 'COVID-19' novel coronavirus in a dense apartment complex in Brooklyn.He thought he should not be infected by this virus with a low fatality rate.

Jeffrey's intention was to either drastically change things and bring the Twisted World back on track, or to keep the opponent in a hurry and lose control of the situation.

But on the contrary, Marco, who had always been afraid of being infected, had nothing to do with it.But Jeffrey developed symptoms such as coughing and shortness of breath within a few days.

The instigator didn't take it seriously at the time, thinking that with his strong body, he wouldn't be afraid of a small virus—it wasn't a severe infectious disease like plague and cholera, it was just a flu.

But a week later, Jeffrey's symptoms still did not improve, and he had to seek a doctor's diagnosis.He went to a public hospital, queued for a long time, hung up for a long time, and finally got an appointment with a doctor.

The American doctor had a very good attitude, carefully questioned and examined Jeffrey's condition, and came to a conclusion...

"Sir, you are very healthy, just a little cough. Go home and rest, and I will prescribe you some vitamins. Or you can get some painkillers, such as fentanyl."

Fuck!

Jeffrey also realized that he seemed to have miscalculated, and he strongly urged the doctor to perform a CT scan of his lungs.But the doctor refused, and only said repeatedly: "Sir, your symptoms are very mild, so there is no need to worry."

After leaving the public hospital, Jeffrey immediately spent a lot of money to go to a private hospital, where he soon underwent a CT scan.A highly skilled private doctor told him good news:

"Sir, you have some white shadows in your lungs, but fortunately it's not serious. Don't worry too much, we can solve this small problem soon."

Lung albinism, an important symptom of COVID-19 infection.

Jeffrey was not short of money. He asked the private hospital to give him the best treatment and healed his body immediately.The doctor complied, sending the wealthy patient to a senior care unit.

But soon, the private hospital drove Jeffrey out of the hospital—no amount of money would work, and severe infectious diseases could only be sent to public hospitals.

It's June.

Jeffrey was admitted to Mount Sinai Hospital and never made it out of the ward.At the beginning, he was still able to send selfies to Marco on the hospital bed, laughing at himself for what he had done, but he was basically optimistic.

Young, strong, rich, people with these labels should be free from infectious diseases.But COVID-19 is a bit different in that it can also cause severe symptoms in adults.

Geoffrey's condition has come and gone, and by July he hadn't improved.The virus ravaged his strong body, and his weight plummeted from [-] kilograms to [-] kilograms in just one month.

It was as if lying on the hospital bed was a breathing skeleton with a tube in it.

Doctors were at a loss for what to do about Jeffrey's pneumonia.They tried the so-called elixir drugs 'hydroxychloroquine' and 'remdesivir', and finally only proved that the recovery of some patients who took the drugs was due to the function of their own immune system, and had nothing to do with the drugs.

At the last moment, Jeffrey repeatedly asked to use the 'healer serum' for himself.This is currently the only specific medicine.But his request was ignored by the doctor.

After repeated questioning, a nurse gave the answer - "healer's serum" does exist, but the output is extremely low and the price is extremely expensive, and it is not for ordinary people.

Without a certain status, money can't buy it.

When Marco Shi came to visit Jeffrey for the last time, he was already dead.

When the doctor replaced the ECMO catheter for this expensive patient, something went wrong, and the blood in the catheter sprayed on the walls, hospital bed, floor and even medical equipment.

At that time, Jeffrey was in a coma, failed to leave any last words, and died silently.The doctor did not give him much help, because this patient has no value for treatment.

Mar Keshi, who was wearing a protective suit, was only allowed to look out of the viewing window twice. In fact, he saw nothing. There was only a hospital bed in front of him, a blood-stained white cloth, and blood all over the floor.

The ward nurse was urging him to leave, "Sorry sir, we are very busy here. Your friend is dead, we must send his body to the refrigerated truck immediately."

"A refrigerated car?" Ma Keshi turned his head and asked with a heavy heart, "Has it reached the point of using a refrigerated car to store the remains?"

The nurse looked haggard and extremely tired.She took a break while speaking, and said casually: "Recently, we have received more than fifty pneumonia patients every day, and one tenth of them are serious patients.

After two months, the ICU ward is already full.Now if you want to enter the ICU, you can only wait for the patients in it to die.While three to five pneumonia patients die every day, our morgues are full. "

Ma Keshi continued to ask: "Can't send it to cremation or burial? Could it be that...the crematorium and cemetery are also full?"

The nurse nodded with a wry smile, "Let me tell you, all the hospitals in New York are sending corpses to the crematorium. But a crematorium can only burn about [-] corpses a day, and there is no place to put them again.

do you understandThere was a terrible plague in New York, and we had to use refrigerated trucks to store the bodies.What's worse is that even hospitals have 15.00% of medical staff infected.

Now the ward is extremely short of manpower, and I haven't been able to rest for a month in a row. What's worse is that even if I am given a vacation, I can't go home. "

The nurse was talking, sobbing and crying.But she was wearing a heavy protective suit, and she couldn't even wipe away her tears. "The emergency room is full of horrific scenes, and the patients are close to each other. They are buzzing and talking in low voices, full of anxiety and helplessness.

The breath of death is everywhere in the ward, as if the invisible god of death is around us, waving a sickle to harvest life at any time.Many people died before entering the ICU.

But we can't do more. Private hospitals refuse to accept patients with infectious diseases, and public hospitals are already overcrowded.We kept pleading with the city government for help, but the bureaucrats couldn't help. "

Marco could feel her despair from the nurse's eyes, all of this happened 'once', and now it's just happening again.

Politicians first deny that something happened, and when they can't hide it, they say that no action should be taken.When the public opinion was uproarious, they said they could do nothing.Finally, maybe something should be done, but it's too late.

"Do you have enough anti-epidemic materials?" Marco asked.

"Enough." The nurse finally told the good news, and smiled with tears in her eyes: "But the purchasing department complained that the price is much higher.

The strange thing is that we can't come if we apply according to the normal process.

But if we complain on social networking sites like Twitter before applying, the health department that manages the distribution of supplies will send us something. "

This phenomenon is really strange.

why?

Marco was a little puzzled.

The nurse had a guess with a wry smile, "It seems that the more serious the problem is, the more support we will get. So we are crying on social software every day. Of course, we should cry."

The radio in the hospital rang, calling out the name of the nurse.She apologized, then urged Marco to leave, and reminded him to wear a mask when going out in the future, emphasizing that an epidemic had already broken out in New York.

After coming out of the hospital, there are several small temporary houses in the parking lot, which are some small morgues.Only five corpses can be placed in each house.

Probably realizing the seriousness of the situation, the hospital management brought in five or six large refrigerated trucks.Each car can store thirty corpses.But the space for these vehicles will also fill up very quickly in the near future.

Mar Keshi passed by the parking lot and saw a cleaner cleaning the ground with a washing machine.The smell of disinfectant and rancidity in the air is very disgusting.

After careful questioning, I found out that a refrigerated truck had a power outage at some point, and it was not noticed for several days.The stored corpses rotted and stink in the car, and corpse fluid flowed out along the cracks.

"Don't you have a body bag?" Ma Keshi asked the cleaner, "A closed body bag should not leak."

The cleaner is an elderly old Mo, who has been extremely irritable by the cleaning work, and cursed angrily:

"Too many people are dead, the hospital is out of stock of body bags. Can you believe this is happening in New York? This place is hell.

But the media is still reporting that the epidemic is not serious.There are no epidemic prevention measures in the city.People are still walking around without any protection.

Just wait, the gates of hell are open, and more people will be sent into refrigerated trucks soon. "

Ma Keshi was stunned amidst the scolding, and staggered away.Now he doesn't know who to find out the anger in his heart. Jeffrey who caused this incident is dead, but countless people will pay the price because of him.

Zhou Qingfeng should be aware of the outbreak, but the imagined chaos did not happen.New York is still the same. Except for the huge pressure on the hospital, other places are still full of feasting and luxury.

Public opinion is accumulating on the Internet, but the mainstream media chooses to ignore it.

Meanwhile, New York City Hall.

Mayor de Blasio was staring at a health system report before rejecting a grassroots request for a citywide state of emergency.He also instructed his assistant secretary:

"Control the TV media and don't allow any reports that exaggerate the epidemic. It's just that the flu in autumn and winter has been brought forward, and the medical system still has enough spare capacity to deal with the current problem.

By the way, apply to the state government, asking them to help deal with the dead bodies hoarded in New York City.As long as the corpses are dealt with quickly enough, it's not a big problem.

In addition, tell the hospital that in order to allow the medical system to operate longer, some patients who are not worth saving can be given up appropriately.Of course, this can only be conveyed orally. "

The assistant secretary recorded the mayor's order in detail, and couldn't help coughing twice during the period.Bai Sihao behind the desk immediately changed his face, "Damn, are you infected?"

"No, no, I just have a habitual cough." The assistant secretary quickly defended.

But the mayor has already found an N95 mask from the drawer, put it on, and shouted: "Get out, you can't stay in my office, let the medical staff come and disinfect it immediately.

Also call the 'Holy Light' people and ask them to provide me with the 'Healer Serum' immediately.I'm the mayor of New York, and I'm entitled to priority use of it. "

Author's Note: Too much time was spent eating poisonous melons today.No way, it involves self-interest.

Chapter 87 Vaccines

Shanghai Pudong Airport.

More than a dozen actively temperature-controlled air cargo containers were being loaded onto shipping pallets, and Liang Guang signed the shipping bill beside him.This is not his job, but this batch of goods is quite special and will be escorted by him.

The shipper at the airport chatted nonsense and asked Liang Guang, "Are you doing scientific research?"

The appearance of Liang Guang wearing glasses really looks like a scientific researcher.But he was very wary of chatting up, just looked up and didn't answer.

Because the escorted goods are a little sensitive, they are labeled as medical supplies, but it is inconvenient to disclose the specific types and users.

The shipper was not interested in the goods. Instead, he pointed to the temperature-controlled containers and said, "Look at the nearest 'Awesome, My Country'? You said this thing is a big refrigerator, why do you want to import it?"

Oh, that documentary has become quite popular recently.In addition, the U.S. emperor is engaged in a trade war, and many old antiques in the country are making noise, saying that this film violates the national policy of 'hide your strengths and bide your time'.

But the shipper obviously, like the netizens, began to wonder what else he couldn't produce.Active temperature-controlled aviation containers are one of them, and they are imported from Europe and the United States.

Liang Guang didn't know much about aviation equipment either, so he hummed twice and said, "This thing shouldn't be complicated. It shouldn't take long, and it can be produced domestically."

The shipper didn't ask any further questions, and said, "Oh, there's been a lot of air cargo recently, especially on routes to the United States. The cargo planes are full. Even the cargo compartments of passenger planes are full.

I also heard that Yangshan Port is also crazy.

The price of the ship has risen by 50.00%, and it is hard to find a box.Many cargo ships that originally sailed to Southeast Asia and the Middle East and Africa have been diverted to China-US routes, and the shipping schedule is also very tight.

According to online news, there is a plague in the United States.Domestic companies that produce medical supplies are bursting into capacity, but Yankees are waving money to buy goods.

This time, we also toughened ourselves up and asked all immigrants to undergo a virus test and be quarantined for [-] days.Recently, the major hotels around Shanghai are full, and there are foreigners and returned students living in them. "

The loading of air pallets requires technology. It is not enough to pile them up casually, but the center of gravity must be guaranteed.Liang Guangde stared at the entire loading and unloading process, and could only listen to the nonsense of the shipper next to him.

What the other party was talking about was the new entry policy half a month ago. Domestically, it was believed that there were signs of an outbreak in the United States, and the entry management was strengthened. Domestic public opinion was agitated by this matter, with some scolding and some praising it.

Many well-known people with crooked buttocks are afraid of being "surprised by friends and nations", and express great dissatisfaction with the domestic active prevention and control-in the past, it was others who prevented us, but now it is our turn to prevent and control others.

It's just that Liang Guang knows more news. The recent surge in imports and exports is actually due to the large-scale procurement of 'Holy Light'.Considering that the epidemic will hit the US manufacturing industry, even US goods are hoarding a lot.

These commodities are not limited to epidemic prevention supplies.

The fact that imports and exports have soared is considered by many to be evidence that there is no epidemic in the United States at all. People’s demand is still so large, production is still so strong, and imports and exports are all rising. It doesn’t look like a disaster? !

The entrance and exit are indeed large, and surprisingly large.

Since June, the manufacturing industries in both China and the United States have begun to operate at full capacity.In order to meet the needs of the two countries next year, 'Holy Light' took the lead in hoarding goods, and the funds consumed quickly exceeded [-] billion US dollars.

This matter made the domestic banks unable to hold back, saying that they would lend money to 'Holy Light' to do business.

Before 'Shengguang' engaged in the semiconductor industry, domestic banks issued low-interest loans only under administrative orders.Now the people in the bank probably heard some news and offered to issue commercial loans to 'Holy Light'.

Loans were just testing the waters at the beginning, billions of billions of RMB.

But as the epidemic in the United States has become undercurrent, Italy and France in Europe are almost out of control, and the blind can feel that the situation is not right.

As long as you send someone to a New York hospital to do a field investigation, you will know that the situation has reached the point where it cannot be concealed.

Several domestic banks finally strengthened their confidence and united to force a loan of hundreds of billions of RMB to 'Shengguang', asking it to 'guarantee sustained and stable economic growth'.

However, people in the financial system soon discovered that in order to ensure the stable supply of commerce and trade in such a huge country as China and the United States, currency loans on the order of 1000 billion would not be able to bubble up at all.

'Holy Light' is the only company that can bypass the investigation of the US Department of Commerce during the trade war and enjoy lower import and export tariffs in the name of medical supplies.

As for whether the import and export are medical supplies, anyway, the US Customs does not count.Anyway, eating, drinking, lodging, clothing, food, housing, and transportation, all kinds of commodities have begun to become medical supplies, enjoying preferential customs clearance treatment.