More than three months have passed since the British government lifted the epidemic prevention restrictions on July 19, and the momentum of the British celebration of so-called "freedom" has not fully passed, and bad news has followed.
The number of new confirmed cases in the UK is now around 40,000 or 50,000 a day, and the Brexit thing is not clear, but the severity of the new crown has recently successfully broken away from the European average – hospitalization rates and infection rates are six times higher, and mortality rates are three times higher.
Britain's health minister warned this week that if no more quick action is taken to contain the virus, winters in the UK could be crueler than ever, and 100,000 people diagnosed every day is not a dream.
There are only a few people in the UK, and the speed of this diagnosis is really a bit terrible. A few days ago, even Huang boss Ed Sheeran was infected with the new crown, and his daughter, who was only 1 year old, was also recruited.
Boss Huang himself posted the message on Instagram: "Hi friends. Let me know quickly that I unfortunately tested positive for COVID-19 and I am now following government guidelines for self-isolation. This means that none of the activities I had planned before can be carried out, I will give interviews and performances at home as much as possible, I apologize to all those who were disappointed by this decision, and everyone should pay more attention to safety. ”
This is undoubtedly a sudden blow to fans, after all, Boss Huang is about to launch a new album that fans have been waiting for for a long time. This period has been a period of publicity, and a lot of activities and announcements have been arranged, and who thinks that now that the diagnosis is confirmed, the publicity work may be difficult to carry out offline.
Originally, on November 6, Boss Huang still had to go to SNL, and now the program team has not decided whether to postpone the broadcast or change to an online connection. Last year, country singer Morgan Wallen was diagnosed shortly before she went on SNL, leading to a postponement of the show.
However, boss Huang's diagnosis is the most worrying thing about the problem of close contact. Boss Huang, who didn't know he had won last week, was invited to the earthshot Prize, a major awards ceremony.
The ceremony was set up for environmental causes by Prince William's Royal Charitable Foundation, and in addition to many environmental practitioners, there are also celebrities who come to perform and present awards. After all, the royal family's activities must pay attention to the row of noodles, the red carpet interview project is not a lot, and it is held in the gorgeous Alexandra Palace.
Boss Huang happened to be in the incubation period of the new crown at the time, which unfortunately led to the entire awards ceremony being filled with more than 2,000 close contacts, including:
Coldplay, sung on the same stage with Boss Huang,
Emma Thompson, Emma Watson,
Premier League Liverpool star Mohamed Salah,
The whole event was not wearing a mask, and at that time, Boss Huang was also seen chatting cordially with Prince William, Kate and Emma.
But thankfully, in order to implement the concept of environmental protection and reduce the pollution caused by air travel before the award ceremony, William only invited guests in London to attend the scene, and the spread of the epidemic was relatively easy to control.
But Boss Huang also participated in the recording of the Voice of America before the awards ceremony, and there were more stars on the same stage: Legend brother, A sister, kelly clarkson, Blake Shelton, and a whole bunch of staff and contestants...
Although Boss Huang stayed in home isolation in London after being diagnosed, the British government does not have a policy of mandatory close isolation and testing, and even positive patients only require self-isolation at home.
That is to say, if the close connection does not feel unwell, it is theoretically possible to continue to move freely. That is to say, if the close contacts of these two activities are really infected with the new crown and are asymptomatic infected people, the scope of secondary transmission may not be able to spread to where.
Just when everyone was immersed in the shock of Boss Huang's diagnosis, the hot search also reported that Benny Benedict Cumberbatch also exposed himself... He told the host during a remote connection to an American talk show that he recently got the new crown, but is recovering and is in good health.
The newspaper sister went to check the news about Benny's infection with the new crown, and the foreign media report only mentioned that he suspected that he was infected in April last year, so it was not quite sure whether the "recently infected" on the show referred to the stroke or whether Benny had been infected again in recent months.
In April of this year, Benny publicly stated that he had inexplicably contracted a very serious illness while filming in South Africa at the beginning of the outbreak, accompanied by symptoms of vomiting, fever and pneumonia, but he did not know what was going on at the time. After returning to the UK, the epidemic gradually began, and he began to feel that his situation was very similar to that of the new crown, and even he suspected that he was the "patient zero" who brought the virus back to the UK, but it was impossible to verify.
This time should be counted as the first time Benny personally confirmed the news of infection with the new crown, no matter when it was infected, it makes people sigh - Britain, what is the matter with you? After all, in the small british showbiz circle, in addition to Benny and Boss Huang, stars such as Brother Yi, Hugh Grant, Little K, Teacher Xin, and Charlie Hunan have also been infected.
The large-scale shooting in the entertainment industry can also see the attitude and status quo of the United Kingdom to the epidemic from a certain angle. The UK has been classified as a "COVID-19 Ivy" country, meaning that the infection rate is very high. People living in the UK say that friends and classmates around them are constantly being infected. The United States was so frightened that it banned visitors to Britain for 14 days.
How did Britain, which seemed to be in good shape a few months ago, come to be like this? One of the most important things is not wearing a mask! Yes, 2021 is over, and the British government and some people still don't believe in masks.
Even the policy of wearing masks has become the most divisive topic in the House of Commons on epidemic prevention. The health minister insisted on wearing masks indoors and in crowded places, but most Conservative MPs, including Prime Minister Boris, were adamant about not wearing masks, even at budget defenses where civilians could visit, and only a handful of Conservative seats wore masks.
In order to show that it does not collude with the Conservative Party, the Labour Party is the opposite, basically wearing masks.
Because they have made masks a political topic, it is more difficult to wear masks among the public.
Moreover, at the beginning of the epidemic, the British government has been devaluing the role of masks in epidemic prevention, and even if it began to advocate wearing masks later, many people still firmly believe that "masks are useless". Since Freedom Day in July, the United Kingdom has completely lifted the mandatory mask policy, the number of people wearing masks out of the house has decreased by 30%, and the Ministry of Health wants to make up for Boris's disagreement.
Of course, the serious epidemic can not blame the mask, and the UK's premature choice to lift all epidemic prevention policies is also a bit of a sense of arrogance. Boris knew that there were more new confirmed explosions every day, or because he was afraid of affecting the economy and dying uncontrollably. Several calls by officials of the Ministry of Health for greater control have been dismissed, and there is no solution to this.
Another reason is that the United Kingdom completed the development of the vaccine earlier, and after the vaccination, everything was fine and the unprepared state began. But AstraZeneca itself is a little less effective than other vaccines used in Europe, not to mention that the vaccine's protective capacity decreases after 6 months of vaccination.
The Uk played early and fell early, and with the first two operations, the virus rebounded rapidly. One or two doses of vaccination in the UK are now accelerating to minors, but booster vaccination is slow, with 22 million people expected to wait until late January to get booster vaccines, but the real test is christmas before January.
Now the UK is in a period of decline in vaccine effectiveness, no masks, no restrictions on travel, poor management of confirmed and close contacts, all of which together led to another outbreak.
Boris is advising the British to learn to "coexist with the virus", but the fact is that every day people die from the virus, and it is not worth it to fight the virus with their lives.
I hope that all of you in the UK will pay attention to protection and don't take it lightly...