"A few days ago, didn’t Qinghua Village in C City suffer an outbreak of the plague? It’s getting worse now, they can’t find the source of the plague, and there is no cure. The spread is so rapid that they could only quarantine the small village. Those people are so pitiable."
Xia Weibao’s heart lurched. She had a lingering fear of the plague.
The Great Xia Kingdom had experienced several severe outbreaks in the past, with many people dying.
To say their lives were devastated would be an understatement!
Back then, they opened the national treasury several times to provide disaster relief, but it was like a drop in the bucket.
Aren’t medical standards really high now? How can there still be a plague?
She searched for information about this outbreak and found that it started about a week ago with the death of a cow.
Then several cows in the village died, followed soon after by people developing boils, and their faces and bodies gradually filling with blood vessels and unbearable itching. Those infected would die within a day.
The transmission was extremely fast—initially, only one person died, but unexpectedly, ten people died within a day!
It has been exactly one week since the plague appeared, and over a hundred people have died!
That village had a total of over three hundred people, which means, a third have died!
One can imagine the sensation it caused!
"What’s going on! Why have so many people died, isn’t anyone doing something?"
Xia Weibao was shocked and somewhat angry.
Perhaps because she had been an empress for so long and was influenced by Emperor Xia Liang’s diligent care for the people, she felt a sense of responsibility and subconsciously regarded the common folk as her subjects.
Now, seeing these people in such misery, she felt a surge of heartache.
"They are doing something. On the first day, ten people died, which alarmed the government, and they’ve already sent a medical team there. But not only did they fail to find a cure, two of the doctors also contracted the plague and died.
With the situation being so serious, who would dare go there now?
Besides, the situation is getting worse, and the epidemic shows signs of spreading, causing widespread panic. The government likely has no other option but to enforce quarantine."
Zhuang Xuejun frowned, feeling troubled inside.
Although she didn’t quite agree with the government’s actions, it was a situation without alternatives.
They had to contain the source first.
It was terrifying—over a hundred people died within a week, more severe than past influenza and SARS!
With influenza and SARS, they knew how to prevent it, but with this plague, there isn’t even a known method of prevention!
They were completely helpless.
Apart from quarantine, what else could be done?
Xia Weibao’s face was as still as water.
She was watching a video of the villagers of Qinghua Village rioting against the armed police enclosing them.
"Why not evacuate the people first? I understand the need to quarantine, but they could’ve relocated them. Trapping them in the village without allowing them to leave, isn’t that clearly sentencing them to death!"
"That... " Zhuang Xuejun shook her head, "I don’t know either. It’s a government decision."
Xia Weibao’s anger was uncontainable. The government’s approach was clearly to abandon all the villagers of Qinghua Village!
Is there no humanity left?
The news had just broken, and there were already hundreds of comments below.
——Finally, it’s quarantined, rejoice!
——Right, let those who caused the plague die with it, and don’t involve others.
——Don’t talk like that; those villagers are also pitiful.
——They are pitiful, but you can’t harm everyone because of a small group of people, right?
——I also think it’s good that the quarantine is in place, it at least controls the spread of the plague...
Looking at those comments with shattered worldviews, Xia Weibao felt disgusted!