The reason behind the emergency shutdown of the laboratory where the virus was cultivated was actually because of this? A number of experts braved the rain to spend the night at the door of the laboratory, the parties sent a long post, the official response, and netizens attacked the comment area!
According to a report by Poster News on April 30, virologist Zhang Yongzhen protested by sleeping outside the laboratory door in the rain because of the forced closure of the laboratory.
Zhang Yongzhen is not an ordinary person, but a well-known virology expert. In 2020, when the outbreak of the new coronavirus was raging, Zeng and his team first studied and analyzed the whole genome of the virus, and put forward relative research directions and potential solutions, providing strong support for the world's fight against the new coronavirus.
It stands to reason that people who have made such great contributions should be honored, but why would they fall into the rain overnight in front of the laboratory as a sign of protest?
Because this matter has aroused widespread concern in the society, in the early morning of the 29th, the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center responded to the incident: saying that the forced closure of the laboratory was necessary for safety, and there was no deliberate embarrassment. Some laboratories needed to be renovated, so they had to be closed.
At the same time as the laboratory was closed, the Public Health Clinical Center also provided a new place for Zhang's team to conduct experiments, stating that they could complete previously interrupted experiments in new locations. The clinical center has formulated a relevant disposal plan in advance, and it also stated that Zhang Yongzhen and his team have been informed in advance.
The meaning of the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center is very clear: their notice is already in place in terms of procedures, so they are also helpless about Zhang Yongzhen and his team's behavior of not leaving the laboratory door.
If the facts are as stated by the Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center, then aren't Zhang Yongzhen and his team making trouble?
On the evening of April 29, the reporter of "Poster News" interviewed Zhang Yongzhen. The latter bluntly said that he did not approve of the laboratory renovation and needed to carry out closed construction.
Because the laboratory of his team is "clearly demarcated" from the construction scope, there is no need for transformation.
Moreover, the sudden closure of the laboratory and the transfer of the site will cause irreversible effects and damage to the experiments that are still in progress, or some orphans that have not been reproduced.
As of the end of the reporter's interview, on the 29th, Zhang Yongzhen and his team were still at the door of the laboratory, but according to Zhang Yongzhen, no one from the Shanghai Clinical Trial Center came forward to discuss with him to solve the matter.
After the official statement, Zhang Yongzhen had already made a long reply on Weibo.
He said the public health center ordered them to move out on the 25th, but did not elaborate on the specific arrangements for where they would move, and the schedule was tight. However, due to various reasons such as the experimental equipment and the removal process, the team unanimously objected.
So the members of the team sent messages to the leaders of the school, giving feedback and replying, but the school could not read back.
"Red Star News" interviewed Liao, one of the members of Zhang Yongzhen's team, who corroborated Zhang Yongzhen's reply and told reporters: The meeting of the hospital was not informed in advance, so only two people from the team were present.
And the duration of the meeting, before and after, did not add up to more than 5 minutes.
If it was such a sloppy meeting and such an unorganized arrangement, it is no wonder that Zhang Yongzhen and his team would find it difficult to accept.
In Zhang Yongzhen's team, a young researcher was trapped in the laboratory for three days, and was currently relying on members to hand food by the window.
The team members' access cards in the lab are no longer valid.
Their insistence at the door of the laboratory, on the one hand, is really a good decision, and on the other hand, it is also to make more people pay attention to this incident.
Zhang Yongzhen said that he has no grudges with the current leadership, and he has been employed by the research institute in Guangzhou, but he does not know why he was treated like this.
Just when netizens were complaining about Zhang Yongzhen and his team, on the evening of the 29th, the words of the person in charge of the public health center reversed things again.
The person in charge, Fan Xiaohong, was revealed to have sent someone to forcibly break into Professor Zhang's office in 2023, threw out his personal belongings and scientific research materials, and then changed the locks.
Later, in an interview with Southern Weekly, Director Fan said that the information about the conflict between the two sides on the Internet is not the whole story, and netizens should not take one side of the story.
The cooperation agreement between the public health center and Zhang's team has long expired. It was Zhang Yongzhen and his team who refused to leave, and the public health center was forced to use this method to reclaim its laboratory.
The gradual excavation of these details, and the disagreement between Zhang Yongzheng and his team and the person in charge of the Shanghai Public Health Center, pushed the situation to a climax again.
The latest progress is that on April 30, the construction team of the laboratory has come to the door and insisted on renovating the original laboratory.
A senior media person said: This matter is far from being as simple as it appears on the surface. Both sides are people with heads and faces, and it is really strange that such a play would be staged in public.
Indeed, aside from personal factors, there are still many doubts in this matter, which can't help but make people think.
So netizens grabbed the details, and many netizens felt sorry for what happened to Zhang Yongzhen and his team on a rainy night, saying that the transformation of the laboratory also had an inside story.
After all, in the early years, Zhang Yongzhen had hinted that he had been treated "unfairly".
Regarding the statement that the cooperation agreement has expired a long time ago, netizens once again started a discussion.
Some netizens trust the Shanghai Public Health Center's statements, but some netizens pointed out that the health center's statements are very different and difficult to be completely convinced.
Some netizens were worried that there would be such things because they knew the achievements of Zhang Yongzhen and his team in the study of the new coronavirus, so they left a message in the comment area: "Please pay attention to scientific researchers."
However, more netizens kept thinking and stood from a neutral point of view.
On the bright side, although this is only a matter of the right to use and relocate the laboratory, it has intensified so many contradictions.
Whether there is a mistake in the communication, why the school has not read back to the demands of the team members, and what are the deeper reasons, these need to wait for the official response.
But then again, the results of the experiment are not only for individuals and teams, but also for the country and society.
If you quarrel endlessly for your own selfish desires, or if you are suspected of using the public for personal gain, then it really shouldn't be.
What is the truth of the matter? There are many opinions, but they are all speculation.
What is the specific situation, let's continue to pay attention to the follow-up official follow-up and announcement.
Source: "Poster News" + "The Virologists Sleeping Outside the Laboratory Speak: There is no grudge with the current leader, and I have been hired by a research institute in Guangzhou"