For a long time, foreign media have not favored China, and often use malicious eyes to measure China's governance ability.
For example, on the matter of new crown infection, foreign media often spread panic remarks, believing that once China is liberalized, it will cause millions of deaths and cause great damage to society.
But the truth is just the opposite, China not only resisted the peak of the first wave of the epidemic, but also successfully emerged from the impact of the epidemic, all walks of life are in ruins, and the economy has begun to recover.
Recently, the National Health Commission released relevant data, counting the number of people who died from new crown infections since December 8, 2022 to January 12, 2023, a total of 59,938 cases.
Although this data refers to hospital deaths, some deaths that are not hospitalized are not counted, but in general, there will not be much difference from the actual number of deaths. Why do you say that?
First, the infectivity of Omicron has been greatly weakened, and most people only have symptoms such as cold, fever and cough after being infected, and they have successfully recovered after a week of recuperation.
Second, from the outbreak of the epidemic in early December to the beginning of January, the epidemic in various places only lasted about a month, which was very short. And the epidemic did not spread nationwide at the beginning, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shijiazhuang and other places took the lead in the outbreak, Zhejiang, Shanghai and other places were almost a week late, which was just enough time for everyone to prepare.
Third, all departments responded in a timely manner and increased the investment of medical resources. In fact, before the outbreak of the epidemic, the country had imported a batch of Pfizer oral drugs for the treatment of the new crown from abroad in advance and included them in the temporary medical insurance system, in addition, our country's self-developed azvudine and lung cleansing and detoxification granules were also successfully included in medical insurance. These drugs may not be of much use to people who are generally healthy, but they are a boon for critically ill patients.
In short, although this wave of the epidemic is still inevitable and caused a large number of deaths, we have kept the number of deaths to a minimum, and achieved maximum success at the lowest cost, which is an important step towards completely defeating the new crown epidemic.
Taking a step back, even if we use the population reduction of 850,000 in 2022 calculated by the National Bureau of Statistics as a reference for new crown deaths, it is far lower than the predictions of foreign media by several million.
In fact, the biggest reason for the reverse population growth in 2022 is the impact of aging, young people are forced by economic pressure or other factors, unwilling to have more children, and the epidemic factor is not large.
I have to say that the foreign media tried to use the way of slandering China to grandstand, and they were once again slapped in the face in the face of the facts.
Of course, we have long been accustomed to this provocative way of foreign media, they are just showing their sense of existence, or trying to disrupt the line of sight and interfere with our epidemic prevention work.
At the moment of the epidemic, what we should do most is to not relax, continue to maintain a calm response attitude, and better complete the epidemic prevention work.
Although the peak of the first wave of the epidemic has ended, most cities have come out of the impact of the epidemic, but the peak period of severe disease of the epidemic is still continuing, and the peak of the second wave of the epidemic may still come.
In short, we must respond to those doubts with the brightest results, only in this way can they be convinced.