The first thing Fan Wubing did after he came back was to immediately arrange textile enterprises under Fan's Investment Group in Jiangnan and Lingxi Provinces to suspend other work and first produce large quantities of medical masks and high-standard medical isolation protective clothing and other equipment needed to fight infectious diseases.

Fan Wubing's decision made the person in charge of both sides confused. After all, although SARS in Guangzhou was a big deal, there was no feeling in the mainland, and life was still very normal. No one noticed that there was already a little panic.

However, Mr. Fan's order was supreme, so the textile factories on both sides began a new production task and began Fan Wubing's preparations for the future.

At the same time, Fan Wubing also called his nephews. The medical supplies company they jointly organized began to produce various scarce drugs and medical devices that were indispensable in the fight against SARS, such as disinfectant liquids and disposable tools.

The most important point is that Fan Wubing has obtained serum samples from SARS patients through his own channels and sent them to his Human Gene Research Institute in Northeast China for in-depth analysis to determine whether this thing is really a genetic virus made by a certain country, as he knows.

Fan Wubing also went to Mount Tai to meet his teacher Fan Tianlan and asked him to come out to help use traditional Chinese medicine to fight the spread of SARS.

Fan Tianlan's health was not very good, which made Fan Wubing feel a little worried, but the old man still took his plane back to the capital with Fan Wubing.

Through the video communication system established with Guangzhou, Fan Tianlan carefully asked about the symptoms and appearances of SARS patients, and had in-depth exchanges with Academician Zhong and others who were fighting on the front line, and had some intuitive understanding of this new virus.

"Basically, this must be solved from the perspective of clearing the fire and toxicity. If you are not a particularly critical patient, rashly adopting hormone treatment will do more harm than good." Fan Tianlan quickly grasped the key point. He gave several different prescriptions, and then asked Guangzhou to cooperate with the current treatment to observe the effect.

The following situation developed very quickly. On February 18, the Institute of Virology of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention discovered an inclusion body from two corpse-excavated specimens through electron microscopy and was judged as chlamydia. The Guangdong Provincial Health Department held an emergency discussion meeting to exchange opinions with experts from major hospitals in Guangzhou on the issue of chlamydia. The members of the expert group agreed that chlamydia cannot be simply identified as the only pathogen.

On February 26, Hong Kong reported the first SARS case, and SARS landed in Xiangjiang importantly.

It was also at this time that the scientific and technological personnel from the Institute of Microbial Epidemiology of the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, after repeated analysis of the results of experiments, believed that the pathogen of SARS may be a coronavirus.

In fact, in December last year, Hong Kong heard about SARS. At first, the Hong Kong authorities responded similarly to other parts of the world. Because they knew nothing about this new disease, were not prepared, and did not take strong measures to isolate and prevent the epidemic from spreading to Hong Kong in a timely manner.

According to existing records, SARS was first brought to Hong Kong by Dr. Liu Jianlun, who had treated SARS patients in mainland China. He told the hospital after he was hospitalized, so the hospital where he was seeking medical treatment was not infected. However, he had already infected nine other people in the hotel where he stayed, and several of them passed SARS to Canada, Singapore and other places after leaving Hong Kong.

In February this year, SARS cases were found in Hong Kong and it was also known that the disease was very contagious, but the Hong Kong government still tried its best to appease the people and said that Hong Kong is safe.

Relevant government officials also accused the media of not describing Hong Kong as bad as it would be bad for Hong Kong. In early March, the epidemic in Hong Kong was rampant, and the Chief Executive also delivered a speech asking everyone not to panic.

At this time, the Singapore government has begun to take strong measures, but Hong Kong still has no major moves, such as closure of classes in primary and secondary schools, large-scale crowd gathering activities, etc.

The media strongly criticized this. The Hong Kong government delegated its power to the schools decide whether to suspend classes if they consider the impact.

This time, the Hong Kong government's reaction made everyone feel a little strange. Why is Hong Kong not as quick and stern as Singapore?

In fact, like the mainland government, they are afraid of affecting their image and are more worried about causing serious economic losses.

If you say that there is a very serious infectious disease here, then tourists will not dare to come, which will hit Hong Kong's tourism industry very hard, and Hong Kong's tourism industry is a pillar industry. At present, the Hong Kong government is suffering from deficits and is worried that strict control of SARS will affect income and worsen the fiscal deficit.

Another point is that the current Chief Executive is indecisive in personality and lacks decisiveness in decision-making and actions on almost all issues. The Secretary for Administration of Administration, who handled the case of plague chicken, killed millions of chickens in two days, but now there is no such style.

There is another key issue, that is, officials of the SAR government should look at the mainland’s winks.

On the premise that the mainland is still calm, although the SAR government officials actually knew that the situation was not good, they did not dare to speak out. Some Hong Kong government officials had asked Guangdong officials about the SARS epidemic, but the official said that SARS was likely to be introduced to the mainland through Hong Kong, so Hong Kong officials had to shut up.

Out of respecting the mainland and avoiding embarrassment, the Hong Kong SAR government also intends to deal with the epidemic in a low-key manner.

It is said that many officials of the Hong Kong SAR government are trained by the UK and act according to the rules. They can fully express their opinions during internal discussions. Once a conclusion and decision is made, they will work hard to implement it. However, they are not used to the mainland's official style that allows you to have various tricks in the execution.

In many things, the Hong Kong SAR government can react faster than the mainland, mainly because of historical, geographical and economic ties that make Hong Kong more sensitive to the international community. In addition, Hong Kong media has freedom when discussing and discussing Hong Kong's internal affairs. The media plays a great role in supervising and criticizing the Hong Kong government, and the criticism of the ** faction in the Hong Kong Legislative Council also has a stimulating effect.

But it is obvious that as the mainland and Hong Kong are more closely connected, some bureaucratic atmosphere in the mainland has also affected the Hong Kong SAR government, especially on some major issues, the SAR government officials still have to rely on others.

On February 26, an American businessman developed SARS symptoms in Hanoi, Vietnam. World Health Organization officials reported to the WHO that a highly contagious disease occurred in the region.

On the same day, US President Bush delivered a speech on Iraq's post-war issue, saying that he hoped to see a top Iraq and set an example for other Arab countries.

On March 1, the United Arab Emirates expressed its hope that Saddam would voluntarily step down to avoid war, and Kuwait subsequently issued a similar statement.

Fan Wubing was busy again at this time. He knew very well that it was imminent that the US cowboy president launched a protracted war against Iraq. Since this situation was unavoidable, Fan's Investment Group should start to make corresponding policy adjustments so that through operations in recent years, he could gain more benefits in the impact of this war.

In recent days, the focus of the news media has been on whether the United States will launch a war against Iraq and whether the Second Gulf War will break out? As for SARS in a city in the south, it has not been mentioned at all.

Especially the most intense discussion about the impact of the United States in Iraq on the economy.

During the Gulf War in 1991, when Iraqi troops were defeated and fled from Kuwait, they set fire to destroy more than 700 oil fields, resulting in four to six million barrels per day, which is equivalent to one-tenth of the world's daily oil consumption, which is oiled into rolling smoke, emitting a total of 500 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

This not only deteriorates the environment in the Middle East, but also causes global air pollution.

To date, two-fifths of Kuwait's water sources are still polluted, with at least 10 million barrels of crude oil leaking into the bay, polluting about 5,000 kilometers of coastline.

During the nine months of the burning of the well, local temperatures dropped by ten degrees Celsius, with a total devastating loss of about $40 billion.

The World Resources Research Institute investigated and found that gas samples extracted from farms in Iran, two thousand kilometers away from Kuwait, actually contain oil sediments, soot, sulfur and other black carbonic acids.

In addition, unburned oil deposited in the farmland, forming large pieces of black mud, which made the fields no longer able to cultivate. In southern Kuwait, there is an oil mud lake that is about five meters long and at the deepest point.

The Gulf War’s impact on the environment is extensive and lasting. Multinational forces used air strikes to destroy 75% of Iraq’s chemical weapons production capacity. Twenty-one chemical arsenals and the spread of poison gas produced by the attacks in factories polluted the environment. The burning of hundreds of oil wells for nine months caused a vicious environmental disaster that covered Kuwait for a long time.

Carpet bombing caused the ground to be filled with bullet holes, and thousands of military vehicles violently crushed the surface of the desert, making sandstorms more frequent. The weapons used in the war not only directly destroy the soil structure on the earth's surface and pollute rivers, but also a large number of weapons, including biological and chemical weapons, will remain on land and water, forming a lasting and terrifying environmental hazard.

According to statistics from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Iraq also dumped six to eight million barrels of oil into the Indian Ocean at that time. The oil slicks on the sea caused a large number of seabirds to die. The rotten corpses accumulated a thick layer of black sticky substance on the coastline, causing the already fragile marine ecological environment there to be devastatingly hit, and now it has become the most serious environmentally polluted area in the world.
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