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Just this week, technology centers in the United States, including Silicon Valley and Seattle, have let employees work from home. Including but not limited to: Apple, Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Twitter, etc.
The Silicon Valley Transportation Lifeline 101 Expressway has no traffic jams on Fridays after work hours, and the Pike Place, a tourist destination in Seattle, has returned to a deserted state 20 years ago.
And I have been working remotely at home for a week. I didn’t expect that the US epidemic situation would change so quickly in just 6 days. You know, the CDC just released testing power to states and laboratories last week.
Looking at these operations of the US government these days, I seem to think that time, uh, have gone back a month. It was really replayed from “Hundred Banquets” to “Shuanghuanglian”.
On Saturday, in Silicon Valley, two cases have been confirmed, Bernie Sanders still held the Oath of Owners in San Jose for the 2020 election.
Yes, of course no one wears a mask. Also, last Friday, a patient who withdrew from the “Diamond Princess” for treatment in the United States received reports that the treatment in the United States had to drink a lot of Gatorade.
What is this? It is sold in China, which is called Gatorade. Seeing this, do you think I want to insert a discount code? No, other manufacturers are not worried about selling.
The next day, Gatorade in supermarkets and online stores sold out. After that, various people went to stockpile, cases rose, deaths rose, and the company “allowed” to work from home, and then “recommended” to work from home.
Although there have been a lot of articles about demonizing the United States recently, in all fairness, compared with China, the US government has shown that it really does not work.
Striking out some rumors (such as Tun Gun) , there are several well-known slots. For example, in the early days, the epidemic situation was not valued, testing was not open, and when it started to deteriorate, it did not intervene in time.
A few days ago, the CDC once decided not to publish the number of confirmed diagnoses nationwide. Also, the US government takes the lead in saying “don’t bring a mask” and encourages everyone more, the door, we still have to come out.
However, I sincerely say that the American people are not all ignored by the government, but there are also people who do not care about anything. But more people still value it and will make lifestyle changes.
My old and beautiful friend Larry (The pectoral muscles are really big) is the second type, and it is very extreme. As a member of many “body hackers” in Silicon Valley, he often does something new that stimulates the body’s potential. What a ketogenic diet, light fasting, vegetarian food, meditation, etc., is really terrible.
This time, he bought his own mask before I even stocked it. In the past few days, we have a long-distance chat, and he teased a word with me, which once made me lost in thought: in the United States, everything depends on ourselves, and so does life. It really is, so innocent, think about it too.
There is a detail of life that most makes me unaccustomed to is that manual service requires tipping. Dear friends, can you understand the kind of mood of ordering takeaways and finally “free shipping”?
So, such an expensive manual service is forcing Americans to “own their own affairs and take care of themselves.” This has caused many people to be all-around in life, change tires and repair toilets, and everything.
Also, remember me. When I first joined the company, they said directly, “Your Career, you are responsible.” Although the company has a lot of things, you shouldn’t “work” yourself. You may have nothing to do. In the end, performance is garbage and you are responsible.
The company will prepare a lot of learning resources for you, but it will not force you to learn. If you don’t want to improve your abilities, you have to do it yourself.
When it comes to health, the company will give you top medical insurance, including a free full medical examination every year, but it ’s notWill remind you to go, let alone organize a time, everyone to go to the medical examination collectively.
You have to think about it yourself, because your life is your responsibility. If you don’t know it, you will not be sick in theory. This idea really seems familiar.
The phrase “depending on yourself” can be extended to explain a lot of things, that is, relying on yourself, other people, including the government, are not reliable.
To be honest, many Americans don’t trust the government.
First of all, Americans will receive a lot of “critical thinking” education. From an early age, they knew that there was no “authority.” They should think independently and know how to “tear down” scientifically.
Looking at the epidemic, don’t look at the incredible operations of the US government. The questions asked by reporters at various media conferences in the United States were very sharp. All kinds of imaginations were created out of thin air.
So, there is one. The Chinese and American media have scolded the spectacle of the US government together. Or, in other words, many people cannot rely on the government at all, and there are too many things that the government cannot control.
It can be said that the role of the government is completely different from that of China. There is a concept called “small government”, Minarchism.
That is to say, the government does only the least things. As long as it can “protect individual freedom + prevent infringement of freedom” , in order to maximize individual freedom.
In the United States, academically, according to fiscal expenditure and the number of civil servants, it cannot be regarded as a strict “small government”, but the scope of affairs and the final effect can be seen to some extent.
Look, the United States is really not a welfare state and its development is very uneven.
Compared to Canada next door, people have high-quality universal health insurance. In some provinces, the government gives money as soon as the child is born.Until the age of 18, and good universities and primary and secondary schools, all kinds of government public.
In the United States, let ’s look at the most basic education without mentioning medical care and welfare. The public schools here in many places are almost equal to jokes, which are basically “dropout factories” + “criminal dishes”.
Such “junk” public schools are distributed in various states, and there are more than 2,000 in the country. There are also many “rich” technology cities such as Silicon Valley and Seattle.
The American documentary “Waiting for” Superman “” introduces everything in depth.
The data presented in the film show that the government expenditure of a prisoner in the United States is even higher than that of a student. The money spent for 4 years for a prisoner is enough for a child to go to 13 years of school.
So, many middle-class families, for their children’s education, choose to go to private schools, or buy super expensive school district houses, and go to top public schools of hundreds of miles.
Look, the government has, to a great extent, pushed such an important educational issue to the private and the family to complete it. Moreover, many important laws in the United States are formulated at the federal level, not “top-down” but “bottom-up”.
For example, it is very famous that in the summer of 2015, same-sex marriage in the United States was legalized. Chief Justice John Roberts voted against it, and was very angry after writing 2The 9-page article says that doing so violates the “foundation.”
The main point is that the federal government should not force all states to allow and recognize same-sex marriage.
At that time, 11 states had actually recognized it, and the Federation should wait until most of the other states changed their own laws before amending legislation instead of directly enforcing it.
The positioning of a government like the United States places unprecedented demands on the “subjective initiative” of the people and society. In the case of this outbreak, this is indeed the case.
For example, the CDC originally decided not to disclose the national data, the main reason is to delegate the authority to publish to the states.
However, the strength of private institutions is quite powerful.
Isn’t your CDC data slow, the system is not easy to use, or is it not even public?Institutions have begun to emerge, such as universities, laboratories, and commercial and non-profit organizations.
Isn’t your government inaction, nothing to warn about, but the folks took the lead. For example, in my community, two weeks ago, the residents committee hired people to start disinfection and upgrade, and also cancelled various community party activities.
Isn’t your government still asking for normal work, then each company decided to suspend work first. For example, just a week ago, many IT companies took the lead in asking employees to work from home.
Isn’t your government short of funds, and the public can’t detect it, then various private charitable organizations have begun.
As of this week, the Gates Foundation has donated US $ 5 million to its oldest nest, also the most severely hit area in the United States, “Seattle,” and has previously donated hundreds of millions of dollars to support the global epidemic.
“Han, you see, this is like the body’s compensation mechanism.” Good friend Larry took advantage of the situation and began to give me the function of popular science. Seeing that the US government is so bad, I really think that our motherland In the face of this epidemic, it is really very, very, very good.
Envy your children who are now in the arms of their motherland. Overseas, no one manages me, now I just want to say:
“Mom, I want a mask.”
A box is enough?
That’s enough, thank you mom, mom is so nice.
This article is from WeChat public account: Han’s Silicon Valley Growth Note ( ID: HanGrowth) , author: Han Han