Three questions about nucleic acid testing

On January 22, Beijing Financial Street began nucleic acid testing, two days to complete all 120,000 people in the district. China is said to have 70% to 80% of its financial assets here, and when queuing for testing, institutions were unable to buy, so much so that some stockholders chortled: the reason for the morning’s big drop was found, the main force was not working today.

Although it is said that you can choose the Time, but that day there are still thousands of people in the cold wind in the middle of winter queue for three or four hours waiting for the test. Later, some people said they did not understand, in fact, as long as a little improvement in management, in batches of rotation, can be free from its suffering, and not to waste everyone’s time, why these management elite are no one thought?

Someone also talked to me before about a similar problem.

Nucleic acid testing in our community, a person will ID card, living unit and door number, name, household registration, with handwritten at the time of registration and then nucleic acid testing, resulting in a sharp and long staff density.

There is no networking system or software that can take pictures of ID cards or scan ID cards to get out the information? Imported seven or eight people, five sitting chatting day can not do the registrar? Confined spaces are crowded why there is no regular disinfection? Why not time divided into units for measurement and testing?

From morning to night dry spirit is quite good, but this is also purely like not to use the brain, grinding ah!

In fact, it should not be no one thought, just from “thought” to There is still a long way to go from “thinking” to “improving”. These management details, the front-end staff need to have sufficient professional competence, coupled with a certain degree of autonomy, in order to timely and dynamic feedback, in the trial and error of continuous optimization and improvement. Sometimes you may even find that these grassroots staff also know exactly where the problems are, but there is nothing they can do about it.

Therefore, at first glance, these are just some “small details”, but the reflection of the system management problems.

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A friend lives in Yanjiao and has had several nucleic acid tests done in order to enter Beijing – because the rule is that you must have a “valid nucleic acid test report within 72 hours”. “.

The problem is that due to the recent overwhelming number of people doing nucleic acid, the workload is extremely high (some of the staff used to do pregnancy tests because there simply aren’t that many people specializing in nucleic acid to be mobilized), and when you’re done waiting in the long line, it takes 48 hours to receive the report, at which point you only have 24 hours left.

Sometimes you get it done at 11:00 pm on Friday and only receive it before noon on Sunday, so if you are Home in the afternoon and don’t go out, you “waste” most of the day, and as a result, the result of this hard queue for the The nucleic acid report is only good for one morning on Monday. If it’s an hour or two past due, some people are more accommodating and will let it go with a few more words, but some people are particularly bad at talking, and it’s useless to talk about it when it’s past due.

The vast majority of those lining up to get their nucleic acid done are young and strong workers – the elderly are at home, the children are on winter vacation, and only those who have to go out to make a living have no choice but to do it again and again. What they want is just a little less frustration, a little more consideration for their own convenience, and a normal commute to and from work, but why can’t such a humble wish be met?

For Beijingers, the nucleic acid certificate is a peace of mind, but only if you are in the “inner city”. The Daxing District, where the current outbreak occurred, has tightened its control over access: in the early hours of January 20, Daxing officials announced that all people in the district are prohibited from leaving Beijing in principle, and that if they need to leave the city, they will be held responsible for doing so in accordance with the principle of “whoever approves the outbreak. If you want to leave Beijing, according to the principle of “who is responsible for the approval”, with a negative nucleic acid test certificate within 3 days.

The difference with the “city people” is that for the ” The nucleic acid report is actually a short-term permit for those who enter the city. It serves not only the Life-political purpose of screening cases and safeguarding the health of the population, but also the implicit purpose of reorganizing the city by limiting access.

In urban planning and management, this is an old problem. The book Dimensions of Urban Design: Public Places – Urban Spaces begins by stating that these plans are a “design process”. “There are no right or wrong answers, only good or bad ones, and their quality can only be tested by time”.

But the book also says that modern cities have seen the emergence of many “extra-phobic territories,” where some successful social classes have chosen, through Some successful social classes have chosen to live away from other members of society through “voluntary segregation,” turning what is a public or quasi-public place into a “members’ clubs” and restrict access with indirect forms of segregation such as detailed membership criteria, a kind of “defined limited Openness”. This “limited discrete domain”, through the control of space, “contributes to a sense of identity, community, and community. “contributes to a sense of identity, community, and security for those who live in them, with the ultimate development being a gated community”.

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Nucleic acid testing really came into the public eye in China after last year’s outbreak in Wuhan, where the world’s first city-wide nucleic acid test of 10 million people was completed by summer. This, combined with the Chinese quest for “absolute safety,” has been used on a large scale in this winter’s new outbreak.

The practice of full-scale nucleic acid testing is common everywhere in this round of Epidemic preparedness, but Beijing is just bigger: it completed 10 million tests after the new outbreak last year, and even bigger in January this year, with 17.46 million tests completed by January 24.

Wangkui County in Heilongjiang is also one of the epidemic outbreak heart, the local situation is tense, two days ago a local people message with me said: “just today the fifth nucleic acid test, I am also curious about the flow of transfer in the end played what role, if the quarantine people are pulled away, isolated, why we these people have to do it again and again? “

This is a “comprehensive screening” approach, a technical and social mobilization to combat the uncertainty and insecurity inherent in a risk society. But don’t nucleic acid test reports bring certainty and security? Not exactly.

A few days ago, someone returned home from a low-risk area to Weihai, Shandong Province, which is also a low-risk area, and despite having a 72-hour negative nucleic acid test certificate, he could not see his seriously ill father one last time because the hospital had a mandatory rule that only one Family member could visit him during the outbreak. Whatever was said was useless, and finally being pushed, the nurse said, “If I let you in, I’ll have to get out (be fired). “

Here, the logic of science cannot stand up to the logic of administration – even in a hospital. Such a situation, I’m afraid, is not just happening in Shandong; even in Shanghai, where the current round of the epidemic has been well received, hospitals have had strict rules since last year: patients can only have one family member visit them on a daily basis for care.

Nucleic acid is, here, just a management tool: it’s like a credential after screening and licensing, but not only is it easily invalidated, requiring repeated processing and repeated self-incrimination, but as we encounter from time to time on a daily basis, it actually has a scope of application. If you think that holding a 72-hour negative nucleic acid report will give you unhindered access, you are wrong and misjudged for not understanding Chinese society.

A dynamic and risky society is bound to have unpredictable and also uncontrollable conditions – in fact, “market ” is the same, and the governmental mindset is precisely the most resistant to this uncertainty, fearing that something will go wrong if it is left to uncertainty.

So, is it all just chance?