"Death Mary" is a super death god who was "favored" by fate centuries ago, and she is also the first recorded super-spreader of the virus in modern times.
Shenyang's "poisonous old lady" was not "favored" by fate, but with ignorance and fearlessness, history remembered her.
Different experiences, but created the same fate, and finally suffered from Internet violence, forced to imprison them, why do they have different endings?
The source of innocent death – Typhoid Mary
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The story of "Dead Mary" began in August 1906.
At that time, Oyster Bay in the Governor's Island area of New York, typhoid fever was found.
Typhoid fever, also commonly known as typhoid fever, is a type of strong intestinal fever infectious disease caused by typhoid bacillus in the dirty areas of the human body, with clinical symptoms of persistent fever and scurvy, accompanied by myocarditis, toxemia and other complications.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, human medical and health methods were not perfect, and many common special drugs in later generations were either not yet popular or had not yet been invented.
Therefore, the typhoid fever of that era was still a very terrible infectious disease, although it would not kill people, but if it was not controlled in time, it would also spread into a large-scale disaster no less than a storm and flood.
And this case of typhoid fever in Oyster Bay in the Long Island community of New York is very special, why do you say so?
Because typhoid fever, known as the disease of the poor, typhoid fever causes typhoid fever, it is common in low-income areas with dirty and poor sanitation.
Oyster Bay, on the other hand, is a well-known wealthy area in the United States.
Just like today, Gangnam-gu in Seoul, South Korea, is a rich area, Ganghoku is a poor area, Tokyo Ginza, japan's capital, is in short supply, and Adachi-ku and Arakawa-ku are slums because they are cheap and easy to live in.
In 1906, New York, the United States, was also a clear gap between the rich and the poor, and it was also divided into rich and poor incomes.
And the Long Island community Oyster Bay is a well-known rich area today, where everyone is a mansion, a car, and the degree of health civilization is second to none in the United States, such a place where it is difficult to breed typhoid fever bacteria, how can anyone get typhoid fever?
And the most surprising thing is that the family of Warren, a banker in New York State, located in the affluent area of Oyster Bay, is not just suffering from typhoid fever, but 6 out of all 11 family members.
The infection rate of more than 50 per cent is enough to attract the attention of the local health authorities, and such a large cluster of complications is enough to show that the cause of the infected person is not from outside the region, but precisely one of the members.
So, with such a judgment, public safety G. Sauber, who has experience in dealing with infectious diseases, came to the Long Island community to treat banker Warren and screen six infected people.
Curiously, however, none of the six infected people matched the characteristics of carriers of the pathogen of early infectious disease.
The unbeliever Sauber examined again, and the results remained the same.
Could it be that the judgment was wrong? Sauber thought so.
But when he checked everyone in the household, an unexpected answer appeared.
A home cook named Mary Melen, who carries a large number of typhoid germs, is the "pathogen" of typhoid fever in the six members of Warren's family.
But this answer is indeed very unexpected for Sauber, because whether it is blood pressure or heartbeat, or other physiological indications, Mary is a healthy woman, a robust woman, who can eat for ten people in the morning, middle and evening, and can be used by one person as a threesome, and the back kitchen of the Warren family is well-organized and healthy.
A healthy carrier of typhoid fever? Or, an asymptomatic and uninfected carrier of Typhoid bacillus? This, Sauber thought, was also ridiculous, too surprising.
Sauber's answer also surprised Mary and was very unacceptable.
"I can't afford to lose this job." Mary pleaded.
Sauber shook his head silently, but still fiercely and resolutely.
Even if it is innocent, there is hatred
As a health and safety expert, Sauber could not allow a dangerous figure like Mary to continue to move freely.
Because Sauber had gone to the government department to check Ma Li's information before determining that Mary was a typhoid pathogen, the results showed that the Irish woman, who had moved to the United States from the other side of the ocean at the age of 15, had lived as a maid in the family for the first ten years.
Mary later became a cook and worked as a cook in seven places in a row.
The reason why she frequently changes her work location is not voluntary, but because her place of work is prone to typhoid fever, which makes her work impossible to carry out normally, so she has to change locations frequently.
When Sauber checked the information here, he was more certain of his own speculation, Mary thought that those places were prone to typhoid fever, but did not know that it was actually because of her arrival that it made typhoid fever frequent in that place.
Warren's family, the eighth family Mary has worked for, is the six people infected and the six people affected by her.
Sauber persuaded the local police and government health officials to come with him and put Mary under control and "house arrest" in the hospital.
Soon after, however, Mary was found fleeing the hospital.
Sauber said at the time: "Too selfish." ”
Yes, Mary was indeed too selfish, and since she escaped from the hospital, there have been several large-scale typhoid infections in the northeast of New York State, and the authorities have decided to formally arrest and imprison Mary.
Mary was taken into custody because of her willfulness and selfishness, which caused a large-scale typhoid infection, but she has always been unconvinced by the ridiculous "undocumented infection" judgment, believing that someone is maliciously framing herself, so her appeal has never stopped.
Later, she was asked to stop working as a chef and was released.
In 1915, when cases of typhoid fever were detected in New Jersey, USA, and by the time the authorities brought the situation under control, the number of infected people had reached 25 and deaths had been generated.
This time, U.S. health officials didn't even have to think about it, and they knew that Mary must have gone to work as a cook again, despite the oath she had made.
So this time, Mary never escaped the fate of life imprisonment and lived until her death in the Infection Quarantine Area of North Brother Island in the Gulf of the United States.
During Mary's "free and willful" time, she worked as a cook in more than a dozen households, resulting in a total of 52 people directly infected with typhoid fever, of which 7 died, and the indirect victims were countless and could not be counted.
Some say that Mary's imprisonment to death is a manifestation of human rights violations, but if she is allowed to go her own way, it is the greatest disrespect for life.
Because the greatest right of human beings is the right to life, but Mary knows that she will contract typhoid fever, and to be a cook is to forcibly bring a super risk to others, which is equivalent to endangering the lives of others.
Then such an act is the knowledge of the law and the law, and the greatest disrespect for life.
However, Mary is indeed pitiful, she is very innocent, the misfortune of fate has shone on her, making it impossible for her to work normally, to obtain income, obviously she has lived a very responsible life, it is very difficult, and it is indeed sympathetic to suffer such treatment.
As a super infected person, Mary is innocent, but she does bring pain to others, and she does not deserve sympathy, the one who is good but bad.
Compared with Typhoid Mary, another "super infected person" who is not famous but has the same negative impact is difficult to forgive.
The new crown "poisonous old lady" who destroys a city by one person is selfishness is the biggest pathogen
During the Spring Festival of the New Year in 2022, as one of the people who went home for the New Year, I don't know if you have noticed that many regions of the country have posted a banner, "Returnees from other places need to report, otherwise it is regarded as illegal behavior", such a special propaganda banner.
This special remark is obviously specially made for the special case of the New Year in the context of the epidemic.
This also reflects the importance that the state attaches to this aspect of work.
There is no way, our country has been exhausted by the epidemic, the trouble that can be avoided is still as good as possible to avoid, after all, the trouble caused by the super spreaders who know and do not report, the lessons brought by the "feat" of destroying a city by one person, we have also eaten enough.
Super-spreaders are a medical term specifically for infected patients who carry pathogens and transmit them to at least 10 people.
Super spreaders have appeared all over the world.
In China, after the SARS epidemic at the beginning of the century and the "new crown" epidemic in recent years, there is a very appropriate but very unfriendly name for super-infected people: "Poison King".
In the years since the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, many "drug kings" have been born.
Some of them, indeed innocent victims, became "poison kings" unknowingly because they did not discover their situation in time.
But some people, because they are too "willful", because of that little personal selfishness, or because of various strange reasons, have become a veritable "poison king".
Under the background of the new crown, every city is waiting for severe treatment, everyone is in danger, for this battle that does not see the smoke of gunfire, everyone in China is hard to endure and fight.
But there are people who, knowing that the rules do not allow it, insist on doing those things that are angry and resentful.
The most typical "poison king", probably the number of that, one person defeated a city, indirectly causing hundreds of millions of unnecessary economic losses to the country, was helplessly ridiculed by netizens as "Nurhaci and Dongye army are not as good as her" Shenyang Yin old lady.
In 1621, in order to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Taizu Nurhaci led a total of eight banners to attack Shenyang, the gateway of Liaoshen, to lay the foundation for victory.
In 1947, in order to liberate the whole territory of northeast China, Lin Shuai commanded more than 500,000 people of the People's Liberation Army in Dongye to fight for several days and nights before taking Shenyang City.
In 2020, an old lady in Shenyang returned from South Korea, the hardest hit area of the epidemic, did not isolate at home after centralized isolation, and after finding fever, she could still hide it, and she could not say it without saying it, and it did not take long to "take down" Shenyang.
What Nurhaci and Lin Shuai's army immediately and painstakingly did was easily done by an old lady.
Originally, under the epidemic, the whole country is united, as compatriots, the Chinese people should be rational and should not be harsh on online violence.
But just as at that time, the most popular saying among the citizens of Shenyang: "We are not angry that she is sick, but that she is willful and chaotic!" ”
This Shenyang old lady returned from South Korea, where the epidemic was severe, knowing that she needed to be isolated at home and knew that her fever needed to be reported, but she braved the huge risk pressure and walked around the whole of Shenyang, thus expanding the scope of victimization of secondary infected people to the point of despair.
On the afternoon of December 30, 2020, Shenyang was forced to enter a state of comprehensive epidemic prevention, and then all staff began nucleic acid testing!
Full!
"Do you know how many people there are in Shenyang City?"
An anonymous angry remark was topped at a local forum.
How many people were there in Shenyang at that time? More than eight million people.
More than eight million people in Shenyang City, originally ready to take off the mask with joy, Ansheng New Year, suddenly forced to put the mask back on, and the annual leave can not be well lived, the door can not be stringed, and even some people can not rest, this year, suddenly can not pass.
"It's hard to carry a year, the New Year just wants to live well, why can't I go out again?"
A "and" word has exhausted most of the city of Shenyang, and nearly ten million people have helplessness and indignation in their hearts.
Hitting and hitting, saying and not being able to say, the whole city can only sulk after suffering from the cold.
In those days, the most tearful thing in the city was the picture of those "whites" wearing protective clothing in the cold winter of Shenyang at more than twenty degrees below zero, holding their posts against the cold, injured because of work, and sick due to work.
The masks taken off by the medical staff, the whole frozen hard picture, the whole city followed the red eyes.
The Shenyang municipal government also has to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to prepare several rounds of nucleic acid testing, overtime pay for medical staff, and consumption in the sealed control area for the selfishness of one person.
Bring heavier shackles to the government in a serious situation.
For those who are waiting for interviews, waiting to return to work, waiting for exams, waiting to have children, bringing unspeakable pain.
Probably the words in the writer's mouth: "The epidemic is easy to control, and people's hearts are difficult to control"!
Huang Xingchu and Zhou Zuofen, who are anonymous
Although hateful people must have pity, in history, it is not only Mary and the old lady of Shenyang who are enough to be typical "super communicators", in the "SARS" at the beginning of the century, Guangdong Province also had two very typical "super spreaders", Huang Xingchu and Zhou Zuofen.
Among them, Huang Xingchu was confirmed to be the world's first "SARS" patient case, and during the period from the onset of the disease to the diagnosis, family and friends and medical staff who treated him without knowing it became the first batch of people infected by him, including different degrees of harm.
Later, another "super spreader", Zhou Zuofen, was once described as "his cough can make people feel the fear of death."
A very deadly description is precisely because he, as a carrier of the virus, unknowingly infected a number of relatives, friends and doctors, two of whom died for this, and his father-in-law and mother-in-law also died one after another.
However, these two "super communicators" are only super communicators, not the daunting and discolored "poison kings".
Although objectively speaking, they did cause harm to others, and it is true that in the first years, they were discriminated against and indifferent, but they did not have the slightest malice in nature, and they felt guilty about those who were hurt without knowing it, and even because of this, they preferred to move away from their homeland, go away from home, and hide their names, just for a peace of mind and peace.
In recent years, with the popularization of the concept of "pathogen", people have long distinguished the concept of "easy to infect" and "poison king", and can appreciate the essential difference between innocence and selfishness.
No one expects you to contribute to the country, but only that you can keep your conscience and the bottom line.
Even if there is no merit, but if you are not ashamed, no one will say anything.
Now that it has reached 2022, China's fight against the epidemic has also entered the third year, a new round of epidemic is being generated, the whole people should guard against arrogance and impetuosity, continue to be patient, and persist until the day when the clouds open and the fog dissipates.
Fighting the pandemic, we are together.