Episode 490
035. One needle. Hangzhou’s life is improving little by little, without going to such grand words as Kang Tae-gong
catching the moon and the lawmaker catching life.
I guess that’s inevitable since I deal with things like this all day long.
In addition to hiring bachelors to distribute work and lawmakers from the main body of Baeklin Council…
‘We are continuing to hire and continue to utilize native Hangzhou lawmakers.’
If it’s coexistence, it’s coexistence.
In Hangzhou, the name of Baeklin’s Pavilion was now becoming absolute.
Public sentiment is improving day by day, and even without going into public sentiment, there is currently a large gap in the level of lawmakers in Hangzhou.
A general medical room where apprentice-style training is provided and a large medical room with a systematic education system.
Add to that the modern curriculum with extremely advanced educational technology, and it was natural that differences would widen.
As a result, it became increasingly difficult for private medical rooms to make a living unless they were affiliated with Baekrin Uigak.
Since the Baeklin Council was short on manpower, they wanted to recruit at least one more member.
‘Thanks to you, I have a lot to educate you on.’
Of course, you will not be filled with knowledge just by receiving it from Baekrin Uigak.
The first thing to do is to improve the accuracy of diagnosis.
Patients who are difficult to treat can be sent to Hangzhou Bunta, Baeklin’s Pavilion.
However, patients who can be treated can receive treatment at a local medical clinic.
In some ways, it can be seen that it is not much different from the existing Uibang system.
However, what is important is whether or not the disease can be treated and whether the patient can be quickly transported to Baekrin Uigak Bunta.
Just learning these two judgment criteria is not an easy task.
However, realistically speaking, it was also the most appropriate thing to do.
‘Yuho and Muwol… aren’t coming. Damn it.’
I didn’t even expect the four generations to come, but these guys have a lot of work to do, so they don’t even show their noses. I knew it would be like this.
Jin Cheon-hee clicked her tongue, coughed up blood again, and came out after finishing her paperwork.
‘I will leave here someday. Until then, we’ll have to prepare all the foundations.’
Isn’t it possible to just live in Hangzhou forever?
After handing over, we must return to the Baekrin Uigak headquarters where our teacher resides.
We need to prepare for that time, but the city of Hangzhou itself is not easy.
‘It looks like Cheonwoo is acting illegally again.’
Occasionally, you can hear Cheonwoo’s nameless name.
Of course, all of them were far from political factions… These were subversive rumors that could be mistaken for a faction, but there is no doubt that they are on the rise.
Jin Cheon-hee muttered as she smelled the air that was getting colder.
“Ah, the smell of winter.”
Winter has already begun to fall in Hangzhou.
A single snowflake stuck to my cheek, and soon countless amounts of snow began to fall.
However, even if it snows like this, it will not pile up.
Soon it will turn into water and melt and flow.
That’s how it is with the first snow.
It was then.
“Eun-gong! “Ngoooong!”
It is Sama Hye.
“hmm? Hey Hye. What’s happen?”
“I think you should come and see it.”
It looks like an emergency patient has arrived.
This is a patient that cannot be treated by Baekrin Uigak doctors alone.
Jin Tianxi immediately ran out to follow Sima Hui.
* * *
On the bed lay a young child with a rash all over his body, gasping for breath.
As soon as Jin Cheon-hee arrived, the council member spoke.
“This is smallpox!”
Jin Cheonhee said calmly.
“Everyone cover your nose and mouth. what are you doing. Have you forgotten everything I taught you all along?”
The lawmakers were startled by Jin Cheon-hee’s words and covered their noses and mouths with cloth.
Smallpox is transmitted through the respiratory tract.
Of course, it is nothing compared to modern-day COVID-19, but the patient came in when the rash was fresh, which was the most contagious.
Jin Cheon-hee also covered her nose and mouth and went inside.
“Keuuu… Kku…”
The child seemed to have lost his voice and could only make a sound similar to breathing.
The senator continued.
“It appears that the child’s mother and father have already died from smallpox. “This child is also dangerous.”
smallpox.
It could be said to be humanity’s worst infectious disease.
It is a disease that has caused at least a cumulative death of at least 1 billion people throughout history, and was eventually succeeded in eradicating it from modern Earth.
However, there is no cure here and no way to prevent the infection.
‘The fatality rate is 30% respiratory transmission.’
Of course, it may be better than the Black Death, which kills people without any help, but in some ways, it is worse.
The Black Death causes those infected to die quickly.
So fast that you die before your immunity even kicks in.
If you look at past documents, there are records of people who held funerals for people who died from the Black Death and mourners dying the next day.
‘If you consider that smallpox has a 30% fatality rate, the survival rate is 70%.’
In other words, if you can increase your immunity, you can survive.
First of all, martial arts masters of the right faction have a high immunity, whether due to internal jingi or health training, so even if they get sick, the probability of getting better easily is higher than that of ordinary people.
Even Sapa-type martial arts experts… are not as good as Yangsaenggong, but their survival rate is still high.
First of all, having learned martial arts means that your basic physical strength is higher than that of an ordinary person, and you can consume sufficient nutrition because you do not have to worry about money.
Therefore, the chance of dying from a sword is much higher than that of dying from smallpox.
However, Yangmin is different.
And the 70% of the surviving civilians fight the disease and spread it to their surroundings.
That’s what viruses are like.
If the fatality rate is high, it is extremely dangerous, but on the contrary, the speed of spread slows down.
Conversely, if the fatality rate is low, fortunately, the speed of spread increases.
The reason smallpox was more severe than the Black Death was because it took advantage of the golden ratio of mortality and spread.
Therefore, smallpox has probably been plaguing humanity for a long time throughout human history, to the extent that it was even discovered in ancient Egyptian mummies.
‘Plus, the fact that it’s a virus is terrible.’
That’s why antibiotics don’t work.
We need to use antiviral drugs, but we cannot make antiviral drugs with today’s technology.
Even in modern times, smallpox has been eradicated, so there is no opportunity to use antiviral drugs. However, the hypothesis that it will work is quite credible.
‘Wow… Damn…’
In the end, I had to give her immunity-boosting herbal medicine and use Qigong treatment to somehow hold on to her life until she got better.
If you are unlucky, the clinic performing Qigong treatment may also become infected.
‘But other than this, is there no other way for now?’
Ultimately, is it symptomatic treatment?
Lawmakers exposed to smallpox are also in a dangerous situation right now.
You also need to prepare for that in advance.
In the past, before going on a medical volunteer trip, I looked up various materials to see if it would be helpful.
According to the data I saw at the time, if a vaccine made using the cowpox method was injected 3 to 4 days after infection, the symptoms of smallpox were alleviated and the chance of cure increased.
‘But… this is also probability.’
Still, I can’t not do it. Shouldn’t we do something?
‘There are no machines, so we’ll have to make it in a primitive way.’
I have also studied cowpox law in the past.
‘I wrote it down in small letters in my reference book when I was in high school.’
I remember watching it with interest because I wanted to become a doctor back then.
First, exposed lawmakers were quarantined separately and other lawmakers were immediately summoned.
“Everyone has probably already learned about the symptoms of smallpox. “There is probably no one who does not know what smallpox is, how it is transmitted, and what the treatment is.”
At that time, a member of the House of Representatives raised his hand.
“I learned that there is virtually no cure.”
“yes. you’re right. Virtually none. At least… the only preventive measure is collecting pathogens from cows with cowpox and using them as vaccinations…”
The lawmakers were slightly agitated by the word “vaccination. ”
‘Okay… that’s right. ‘This is a natural reaction.’
Even in modern times, there are all sorts of strange rumors floating around about vaccinations.
There are all kinds of conspiracy theories going around, such as Bill Gates simply implanting a chip and controlling it, 5G can be received through the brain, or magnetic force is emitted from the body.
Among them, one of the most famous and widespread is the theory that ‘vaccination is very dangerous and causes sperm decline, infertility, and shortens lifespan.’
This is more plausible than the conspiracy theory above, so if you haven’t studied the basics of vaccination principles, you might think, ‘Huh? ‘That could be so.’ There are quite a few cases where people just believe it.
Of course, if you have received proper public education, no one will seriously believe in this… but there is.
Amazingly, it exists.
Of course, vaccination is not without side effects.
Fever or general fatigue caused by immune function are typical side effects.
That’s a problem all medicine has.
However, if you consider the mortality rate of the disease for which you are vaccinated. And even if you live, you should get it considering the permanent aftereffects of the disease.
Even if a person survives a disease like polio, there are many cases where he has to live with hemiparalysis for the rest of his life.
‘If humans had great immunity, the average lifespan in the past wouldn’t have been 30 years.’
However, in this world where there is no public education system at all.
In this world where there is no concept of bacteria and viruses.
Vaccinations can be treated as an act of insanity and a vicious tactic.
‘okay. ‘Everyone didn’t like Busul at first.’
At least it was a disaster because there was a bloodless old monster, the symbol of Lotto, who forcibly spread the magic.
‘If I were a king or emperor, I would have forced them to do it.’
In an era where the concepts of germs and hygiene are not fully understood yet.
There was even a method of pulverizing the boil tissue or pus scab of a person with smallpox and putting it into the nose.
Since this uses smallpox bacteria directly, people with weak immune systems can die from real smallpox.
In this situation, if you say that in order to prevent smallpox, you need to prick the pus from a cow with cowpox… this is the second coming of the misguided doctrine.
People in Odokmun also washed often and a lot.
Typhoid fever spread because unpurified water was used and there was no soap.
It’s not a concept that doesn’t exist at all, and it’s more difficult because they have their own existing method and have to kick it out and come up with a completely different method.
Edward Jenner, who discovered the cowpox method, also discovered the vaccine.
‘Does it make sense to put bacteria into the human body?’
‘How do you prevent a disease by injecting it?’
‘Edward Jenner is plotting to rule Britain by turning people into cows. They say that if you get that vaccine, people will cry like a cow!’
…and so on, we are faced with various conspiracy theories and opposition that will threaten medical personnel.
‘I even thought about creating a pseudo-religion. 3 seconds.’
It’s a cult where you wash your hands every day and get vaccinated against cowpox.
However, no matter how much I think about it, all I can think of is the ending where Gold Silver Wang Ya sends the imperial army to be subjugated.
‘Still, in terms of the game, I made quite an achievement in the powerhouse, but now I don’t think it will work.’
Wouldn’t it have been possible in the past? Maybe it would be possible now?
just as expected.
Some council members seemed skeptical.
It’s easy once you do it, but difficult until you do it.
