Some time ago, during the May Day period, everyone took advantage of the holiday to travel with relatives and friends, but at such a happy moment, a tragedy occurred that surprised everyone - the collapse of the Meida Expressway.
In the early morning of May 1, a sudden collapse accident occurred on the Meizhou Expressway in Guangzhou, and more than 20 cars fell. The scene is like a purgatory on earth, the crater is four or five meters deep, and the falling vehicles are burning underneath, and the flames are soaring to the sky.
A press conference was held on the afternoon of May 2, and it was reported that a total of 23 cars fell from the accident, 48 people were killed and 30 were injured.
People who were immersed in the joy of the small long holiday were shocked by the news, these people were ordinary people like us, taking advantage of the holiday that finally came to travel with their families, but they didn't expect it to become the last day of their lives.
People mourn the victims, but they want to know what caused the tragedy to happen.
A few days ago, a Weibo big V posted a paragraph like this:
"I hope that this tragedy on the Meida Expressway will completely make the country make up its mind to cancel the long holiday system (except for the Spring Festival). Almost every year, there are some accidents. The long holiday system was originally a policy to stimulate domestic demand, and it is time to change it. May the dead rest in peace. ”
And the identity of the big V who said this is even more surprising, his certification is like this: Fudan University, professor of the Center for Complex Decision Analysis.
The person who said such strange things turned out to be a professor in Fudan, and what complex decision-making analysis was done, let's take a look at his encyclopedia information, which is also star-studded:
Tang Shiping, male, is a distinguished professor at Fudan University (2013-), Chen Shuqu Chair Professor at the School of International Relations and Public Affairs of Fudan University (2014-2020), a Changjiang Scholar at the Ministry of Education (2016-), a director of the Center for Complex Decision Analysis at Fudan University, a scholar of international relations, and a doctoral supervisor. On December 8, 2023, Tang Shiping was elected Vice President of the International Studies Association (ISA) for a one-year term (2025-2026). ”
Founded in 2013, the Center for Complex Decision Analysis at Fudan University is a research center that provides technical support for national strategic decision-making based on "computational social science". By improving or integrating the existing technology platform and developing a new technology platform, it will become a technical support center for national strategic decision-making and provide technical support for the mainland's strategic analysis and decision-making.
All in all, this professor is specialized in the study of national strategic decision-making, and he is also a leader.
After he made such remarks, many people accused him in the comment area of "why not eat minced meat", and the professor just said lightly: "I can only say that you have no logic." ”
In fact, according to the analysis of many professionals, the main reason for the accident is that the soil has been soaked due to the recent torrential rains in the local area, which has led to the instability of the geological structure, plus some construction problems. Then such a thing happens, it is definitely not to blame the people who travel, but the highway designer, construction party, construction party, and supervision party may be responsible.
When the road collapses, the strange person goes out, is it that the building collapses, and the strange person is at home? Do I have to look at the yellow calendar to see if the road will be walked when I go out to play? It's outrageous......
However, there are also some people who defend the professor, saying that his speech is not what everyone understands, on the contrary, he is criticizing this holiday system in "yin and yang", he thinks that it is because the holiday system is unscientific, which leads to everyone having to go out in groups, so it leads to the accident, so what he said is actually right.
But it's not right to think like this, what does the road collapse have to do with me? The road that won't collapse, no matter how many cars you walk from above, it won't collapse, and no matter how much you can't rely on the head of the holiday.
In fact, we have been hearing similar "expert advice" lately, such as:
There are also experts who feel that Chinese have too many holidays and recommend reducing them:
To these experts, we really want to say:
The reason why people are so disgusted with expert advice is that some experts lack a realistic attitude when facing problems. They do not investigate and analyze deeply, but draw conclusions based on personal feelings and imaginations, and this practice leads to the disconnection of their proposals from the lives of the masses and a lack of knowledge of the basic facts.
In addition, these suggestions are often full of arrogance of superiors, who obviously "don't have a backache when they stand and talk", and how can they get support if they keep claiming to be based on data and professionalism, but they can't really understand the difficulties of ordinary people?
In fact, compared with some developed countries, China's holidays are really not much, coupled with the population base, resulting in a lot of people have to pile up at the same time to travel, which also leads to every holiday, the various attractions are crowded, crowded with people, out to play sometimes more tired than going to work.
But if you can go out to play for a few days a year, wouldn't it be a loss if you don't go out to play and stay at home?
And now there is another compensatory holiday, which means that you will be given a few days off, which seems to be quite long, but in fact, it is only a day or two, and you have to go to work to make up for it on the weekend.
The reason why people hate compensatory holidays is because although compensatory holidays can be spliced together and seem to be longer, in fact, the experience of playing when traveling is not ideal, and they still need to work hard to make up for it after compensating for it, which increases the workload. Secondly, the compensatory time off changes the rhythm of daily life. Some people found that in the process of compensating for the holidays, they had to work for half a month or even a month in a row for those days of vacation. This choppy pace of life is inconvenient and stressful.
Some people have been interviewed by the media before, and everyone thinks that the holiday does not play a role in resting, but makes everyone more tired. Those who have two days off will have to work for 6 days in a row, and for those who have a single day off and a rotation break, it is even worse, and the rest that may have been only 1 day has been "transferred", which is more painful than not having a holiday.
Can a long vacation really be canceled? The answer is no.
First, young people working in cities often have an urgent need to return home to visit their families. However, due to their busy schedules, some people's hometowns may be far away, so they do need to take long vacations to arrange time to return home.
In addition, if people want to travel to more distant destinations, they can often only make the most of their trip by taking advantage of the time spent on a long vacation. If there is not enough vacation time and everyone can only walk around, it is not good for tourism.
Therefore, although people often complain about traffic congestion and rising prices during the long holidays every year, they still travel because the opportunities to go out and play are really limited. And with the basic policy unchanged, compensatory leave may be the only way to meet people's needs for long vacations at present.
Therefore, instead of recommending what to cancel the long vacation and blame the tragedy on the long holiday travel, it is better to consider suggesting that the holiday system be adjusted, the number of holidays should be increased, and the paid leave policy should be improved. In this way, everyone can freely arrange their vacation time according to their actual situation and needs, and no longer be forced to go out at the same time. Giving people the right to choose will better meet their individual needs, reduce the occurrence of traffic congestion, rising tourism prices and other problems, and also help alleviate the safety hazards caused by concentrated travel during the holidays.
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