"There is no cure for this disease," said Hippo, "but quinine. We brought a lot. If not, Lingao has a large stockpile. So I don't worry about the mortality rate - you can survive with quinine.
But once an outbreak occurs, there may be a shortage of beds and nursing staff, which will seriously affect the recovery of patients."
"We listen to you on this matter, and we will do whatever you say." Wang Luobin said, "In short, there cannot be an explosive epidemic!"
The loss of labor force caused by an epidemic is a very serious matter, whether it is death or illness. From a ruthless pragmatism point of view, when there is sufficient new labor force to fill it, it is better to die than to be sick, and the resources required by the sick are far greater.
More than healthy people. Not only cannot they work, but they also need manpower and material resources to take care of them.
The Time Travel Group has not yet reached this level, and labor is still quite valuable. Each basic labor force takes 90 days from the time it is taken into custody in Guangzhou until it can be officially put into use. The cost of food, medicine and labor consumed in these 90 days is huge.
s expenses.
"In addition to taking medicine, we must still focus on prevention. In particular, we must increase the supply of mosquito nets," Hippo said, "so that each person can have one. If we can't get enough at this stage, we should at least cover all the windows with gauze."
"As for burning artemisia annua to repellent mosquitoes, I reported it to the executive committee. Director Liu said that the supply of dried artemisia annua can be opened up, but if it is not enough, it will be purchased from the mainland. It is best to send someone to handle this matter."
"Does making artemisia annua soup for everyone have a preventive effect?" He Fanghui interjected, "Isn't it said that artemisinin is a new generation of anti-malarial drug?"
"Artemisia annua has no killing effect on malaria parasites. What is effective is actually Artemisia annua. Secondly, even if there is Artemisia annua, it is still very difficult to extract the active ingredients at the current level of our pharmaceutical factory. Give it to patients honestly.
Take quinine." Hippo said, "To be cautious, all the elders must take preventive medicine from today on."
Subsequently, Chuanchuan Group launched a vigorous sanitation campaign, cleaning up buried garbage, filling low-lying areas, removing stagnant water, and installing window screens. They were very busy. A large amount of dried Artemisia annua and special pottery were transported from Lingao.
Smoker cage - With the smoker cage, it is less likely to cause a fire. The dormitories in the camp are all wooden houses, and careless use of fire will be a disaster.
The whole camp is filled with the smoke of Artemisia annua day and night. In fact, there are very few mosquitoes on the beach. The Artemisia annua mainly smokes people. From Wang Luobin to the basic labor force, everyone is disturbed by this terrible smoke.
Complaints are endless.
However, this set of measures did not seem to be very efficient. After a few days, malaria began to enter a large-scale outbreak period. At first, there were a few people a day, and then it became more than a dozen or dozens of people a day. The hospital soon
As they could no longer accommodate the patients, Hippo Care immediately vacated several independent barracks and dormitories as dedicated isolation wards. Since there were not enough health workers, all immigrant women were mobilized to serve as temporary caregivers.
Anti-malarial drugs are distributed according to different conditions. The malaria parasites in this time and space are not yet resistant to drugs. They take effect almost immediately after taking the drug, but even for such a person, it will take at least ten days from the time he gets sick to returning to work. As he falls ill,
There were more and more workers, and the hippos began to go crazy - there were not so many anti-malarial drugs prepared!
The health center did not estimate that the malaria situation in Hainan was very serious. The anti-malarial drugs they carried were mainly prepared for the future landing in Taiwan and the development of Southeast Asia. After arriving in Lingao, malaria only occurred occasionally in most areas of Lingao.
It is more common in areas of Hainan. This led them to misestimate the severity of malaria in Hainan.
Calculating this, to ensure that workers can work effectively, each worker must be given preventive oral antimalarial drugs, which greatly exceeds their reserves. The mass production of quinine will have to wait for several years, and the reserves will be completely consumed.
What should I do if it is gone? And for malaria, quinine is not the best, and its therapeutic and curative effects are far inferior to chemically synthesized chloroquine and primaquine.
But now the hippopotamus has no choice. The number of people getting sick is increasing day by day. Many people have poor physical fitness and overwork in the previous stage, and their resistance is very poor. Even with the use of special drugs, they cannot survive. The mortality rate keeps rising.
From the beginning, no one died, to three or four people dying every day, then seven or eight, and then more than a dozen people. The bodies of the deceased were carried to a remote beach and burned on a pile of firewood. At the highest tide, every day
More than twenty corpses were cremated on the beach. The newly developed cemetery was full in less than a week, and He Fanghui had to urgently develop the second phase.
The thick smoke from burning corpses every day caused great panic among the workers. Rumors spread that people who work on the roadbed construction site would be infected with miasma. Morale in the camp continued to decline, and there was an atmosphere of fear in the camp.
.Although no one dares to raise objections in the face of the powerful force of the Crossing Group, they know from the reports of internal network workers that the workers' resentment and fear are increasing.
However, the construction progress has not slowed down. In order to set an example, Shan Daoqian went to the front-line construction site with the engineering team every day. He always took the medicine on time and was full of confidence in the prevention and treatment effect of the medicine.
But the workers didn't see it that way, and were full of fear and resentment about continuing to work in the "miasma land." The network workers began to issue orange warnings: riots will occur soon!
People from the construction headquarters held an emergency meeting to discuss countermeasures and made three decisions: From now on, all senior members, regardless of their position, will lead by example and go to the front-line construction site in shifts. They do not need to work but will sit back and set an example to calm people's hearts;
Secondly, greatly improve food supply standards to alleviate complaints and improve the physical fitness of workers; thirdly, first distribute compound anti-malarial tablets that were originally only distributed to veterans and soldiers to workers who enter the inland areas. At the same time, send hippos back to ask for more
Anti-malarial tablets to ensure that everyone takes the medicine.
However, the incident happened earlier than they expected. On this day, a strike broke out in the camp. A labor team sent to the road construction site refused to go to work under the leadership of the captain. Several other teams also wanted to take them there.
The captains and team leaders who came to work were kicked out or directly detained.
Zhuo Tianmin was in the office of the labor camp when he heard the commotion and came out to talk to them. What greeted him was a tiled smoke cage and other debris.
"We're not going to work!" the workers shouted at him, "We're not here to die!"
Zhuo Tianmin knew that the problem was becoming more serious minute by minute: although many labor teams did not explicitly call for a strike, they were still waiting and watching, unwilling to leave the camp to go to work.
Wang Luobin used the walkie-talkie to contact Zhuo Tianmin: "How is the scene?"
"No, they refuse to go to work." Zhuo Tianmin wiped the sweat from his head and said with a gray face, "I will work harder..."
Zhuo Tianmin continued to earnestly ask them to give up the fight and continue to work, and promised that as long as they took the medicine on time, they would not be infected. The current patients were all infected in the past.
"...You won't get malaria if you take these pills. I also took them. I can accompany you to the construction site..." Zhuo Tianmin didn't have a tin trumpet, so he had to shout at the top of his voice.
"Take your medicine!" The workers who were stuck in the barracks threw out the pills distributed to them. "Keep the medicine for yourself, we want to survive!"
"Don't be afraid, everyone -" Zhuo Tianmin hadn't finished speaking. Several people who had long been unable to hold back rushed forward and punched him. He was knocked to the ground by one punch, and then more than a dozen pairs of hands squeezed over and pulled him one by one.
He was holding him tight. Someone was shouting, "Beat him to death!" In an instant, he had received several punches and kicks. Zhuo Tianmin was grabbed so hard that he couldn't move, and a huge fear came into his heart: He was going to be beaten to death!
When he was knocked down, a riot broke out in the labor camp. Someone set fire to the office and looted items. They began to beat the health workers and labor team leaders, team leaders and other "stooges". Several female health workers were distributing medicines and did not run away for a while.
After being raped, Zhuo Tianmin's clerk escaped from the camp in the chaos and rushed to Yulin Fort to report the news. Those labor teams who were not involved in the commotion were quickly taken away from the scene by the captains, and the infantry squad responsible for guarding duties outside
According to the plan, various key points were controlled in a timely manner and the further expansion of the riot was prevented.
Wang Luobin had already received news of a riot in the camp. He was shocked when he heard that the office was burned down and Zhuo Tianmin was arrested by the workers. Riot?!
Xi Yazhou has arrived, fully armed and waving a pistol in his hand.
"I think it's better to send out the army."
"Zhuo Tianmin is trapped inside, will he rush in hastily..." Wang Luobin hesitated.
"The people inside haven't reacted yet. When they do, they will keep a close eye on Zhuo Tianmin and use him as a hostage to bargain with us. It will be difficult to save people. There is chaos inside now, so this is a good opportunity." Qian Shui
Xie also agreed to attack immediately.
"Okay, let's attack. We must rescue Zhuo Tianmin intact." Wang Luobin gave the order, "Try not to cause casualties."
"Let's begin." Xi Yazhou ordered the messenger beside him.
The infantry companies that put on anti-explosion equipment formed a horizontal line and advanced into the camp. The stones that fell like raindrops made a crackling sound on the shields and helmets. The infantrymen lowered their heads and held up their shields, and moved forward without hesitation. A few attempted to
The recalcitrant people were quickly defeated under the sticks. A few minutes later, the infantry took control of the situation. The workers had neither weapons nor organization, and they didn't even know what they wanted to do. A few people tried to establish an organization, but failed.
They were disbanded before they had time to organize themselves.
The workers who participated in the strike were driven out and sat on the open ground without moving, waiting to be punished.
Zhuo Tianmin was beaten until his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, but his life was safe. Someone thought of taking him hostage, so he escaped.
"Lao Zhuo, you are suffering." Seeing Zhuo Tianmin being carried out on a stretcher, Wang Luobin comforted him.
"I'm fine." Zhuo Tianmin raised his body and raised his hands with support, "This is not a big deal, don't make a fuss about it..."
"Okay, okay, you have a good rest first." Wang Luobin comforted him, "We will handle it."
Zhuo Tianmin wanted to say something else. At this time, several limping female health workers wearing torn clothes supported each other and walked past while crying. Then several stretchers were carried, and some people were groaning in pain.
Huh, some of them have their faces covered and are silent.
He sighed and lay down silently.
Wang Luobin asked Zhuo Tianmin to move back to his bedroom in Yulinbao and asked Colgate to take care of him. Zhuo Tianmin's briefcase, documents and pistol were all found. These things were all in the cement safe in the office and escaped.
The smoke from the office had dissipated, and the office in the labor camp had been burned into a pile of charred and blackened wooden frames. If the fire had not been put out in time, it would have spread and the consequences would be disastrous.
Ten people died in the riot, including three health workers, five labor team leaders and captains, and two clerks. The deaths were all personnel trained by the Crossing Group. Such personnel losses made Wang Luobin very sad.
When the office was burned down, a batch of files that had not been backed up were lost forever.
The punishment was swift and severe. Everyone agreed that beating the elders, burning the buildings, and killing the indigenous clerks went beyond the scope of a strike. Moreover, the Crossing Group had never recognized the right of the indigenous people to strike.
Taken together, the senators considered this to be tantamount to rebellion.
"This matter must be handled in the bloodiest way!" Xi Yazhou said excitedly, "He actually beats the elders! How can we let them know that the elders are sacred and inviolable without killing a group of them?!"
"It's impossible not to kill just one person to serve as a warning to others." He Fanghui also firmly supported it, "We killed many indigenous staff when trouble occurred. If we don't punish them severely, how can the indigenous staff who serve us feel at ease? We must find out the murderer and execute him in public!"
Qian Shui Xie disagreed. In his opinion, workers' strike was a normal demand for power. But the method was a bit excessive - but he wisely did not raise objections. However, he also did not express approval.
On that day, all the workers stopped working and gathered at the entrance of the labor camp. All the troops that the army and navy could use were gathered here, and they were stabbed like a forest. It looked very solemn and coercive. From this atmosphere, the natives knew that someone was going to kill someone.
A cremation pile has been piled on the beach opposite the entrance of the labor camp, with eleven corpses wrapped in white cloth placed on it. Several carpenters are installing a gallows not far away.
A brief trial was held in front of the crematorium. Those who were accused of participating in beatings and attacks on senators; those who killed labor captains and health workers; and those who raped female health workers were all sentenced to death. One after another, in a brief "To the Senate and the People"
In the name of "sentenced to death", he was pulled to the gallows and executed. During the execution of the hanging, the crematorium was lit on fire, and the flames rising to the sky reflected the body shaking on the gallows - he was hanged at the end of the trial.