作者：曾颖
On the evening of March 7th, around 7:15 pm, the Xinja Hotel in Quanzhou, Fujian suddenly collapsed. It is understood that the hotel is a 5-story steel structure, with a total of 6 floors including the upper and lower shops. There is a gas station nearby. After the incident, the Quanzhou City and Licheng District governments organized firefighters, rescue teams, and 120 ambulances to rush to the scene for rescue. Multiple people have been safely rescued so far. It is understood that the hotel is an isolation hotel for close contacts.
The following is the authoritative report from the media:
About 70 people trapped in a collapsed hotel in Quanzhou, which is a medical observation point for COVID-19
2020-03-07 21:54
According to verification by People's Daily reporters, the Xinja Express Hotel in Licheng District, Quanzhou, where the collapse occurred, opened in June 2018 and has a total of 80 rooms of various types. After the outbreak, it was transformed into a district-level medical observation point by Licheng District, Quanzhou City, to isolate and observe close contacts. The number of trapped people is about 70, and the specific number is being further verified.
48 people have been rescued from the collapsed hotel in Quanzhou, and the Deputy Director of the State Council's Work Safety Committee arrived in the early morning
On the evening of March 7th, a collapse occurred at the Xinja Express Hotel on Nanhuang Road, Changtai Street, Licheng District, Quanzhou, Fujian, burying multiple people. As of 9 pm on the 7th, 28 people have been rescued at the scene. The Fujian Fire Rescue Corps has dispatched 26 vehicles and 147 personnel from the Quanzhou Fire Rescue Brigade to the scene for rescue, and has also called for reinforcements from nearby heavy rescue teams.
According to reports from Xinhua News Agency and People's Daily, a building collapse occurred at the Xinja Hotel in Licheng District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province on the evening of the 7th, trapping nearly 70 people.
At 8:16 am on the 8th, the Xiamen Fire Rescue Brigade rescued a trapped man. His wife and child are still trapped under the debris, and the rescue is ongoing. Up to now, 48 people have been rescued.
At around 12:20 am, firefighters rescued a toddler aged two or three, who is the youngest survivor so far.
The number of fire trucks dispatched is clear, but the number of deaths is unknown.
In order to avoid wrongly accusing on-site journalists and media reports, I specifically used the search function to search again. Indeed, throughout the news, there is not a single mention of death.
Could this be a miracle?
Such a large building collapsed, and miraculously no one died.
There should at least be a rescue and casualty count.
But until now, 15 hours have passed, and all the news, except for slight changes in the number of survivors, still does not mention the number of deaths.
It seems that this is an unimportant element in this news.
Is this the usual way of operating for this kind of news?
Let's take a look at the media's coverage of similar collapsed building incidents abroad:
Let's not digress and talk about news from a day ago and two months ago. The number of deaths is prominently mentioned in the headlines. Does only the death of foreigners count as death?
This seems to confirm the old and cliché joke:
Explosion in Huaguo Mountain
Question: How many monkeys died?
Answer: The Emperor of Heaven and the Queen Mother personally cared about the disaster. They dispatched Immortals such as Tai Bai Jin Xing to the scene to command the rescue.
Question: How many monkeys died?
Answer: 26 caves collapsed.
Question: How many monkeys died?
Answer: 26 fire trucks, 16 rescue teams, 188 rescue personnel, and 35 medical staff were dispatched;
Question: How many monkeys died?
Answer: 35 monkeys have been rescued so far.
Question: How many monkeys died?
Answer: Only 5000 peach trees were destroyed.
Question: I'm asking how many monkeys died in the end?
Answer: The surviving monkeys have been safely evacuated.
Question: The families of the dead monkeys are emotionally stable.
Question: How many monkeys died in the end?
Answer: Another monkey was rescued today...
This joke is enough to make people cry.
This may be the legendary positive news writing method - to give people hope:
Writing about the number of deaths is negative energy, while writing about the number of survivors is positive energy.
The total number of people minus the positive energy equals negative energy.
Since the rescue is still ongoing, it can be changed to approximately equal to, which is basically perfect.
So, based on the latest information, everyone can calculate it themselves.
70-48=???
In order to avoid unnecessary trouble caused by miscalculations, I won't give you the answer.
Sigh, now when reading the news, not only do you need intelligence, but also arithmetic.
Attached: A comment at the top of the article by the author -
According to the latest news from People's Daily: A total of 71 people (excluding 9 self-rescued individuals) were trapped at the scene of the collapse of the Xinja Hotel in Licheng District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province on "3.7". As of 10:30 am on March 8th, 42 people have been rescued at the scene (including 4 deaths, 1 in critical condition, and 4 seriously injured). There are also 9 self-rescued individuals.
Author: This article was written before 10:30 am, which was about 15 hours after the accident occurred. As a major ongoing accident news, not mentioning casualties from a communication perspective is unacceptable. Even if no casualties have been found, the original news should have stated: "The number of casualties is currently unconfirmed." Instead of not mentioning it at all.
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