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    Although neither Graystone nor Donald could understand Scrooge's approach, Scrooge was right too many times, so everyone, including them, also adopted the method of understanding Scrooge's approach.  Implement, implement even if you don¡¯t understand, and deepen your understanding during implementation.  ¡Ê¨J Moreover, now the MacDonald family has too much money to spend, and Scrooge has always been relatively frugal. When it comes to spending money, he can't even keep up with the Morgan family, which is far less wealthy than him. Now even if this deal  He didn't make much money, so you can just think of it as Scrooge having fun with the money.  Anyway, MacDonald now has plenty of money.  However, in August of this year, the first leading troops of the American Expeditionary Force arrived in France and began training. The American General Pershing also argued with the British and the French over the issue of the independent command of the US military.  By that time, the second outbreak of the Spanish Flu had finally arrived.   "Marshal Your Excellency, our offensive plan may have to be terminated." A staff officer said to the French commander Marshal Foch, "The disease in the army is completely out of control. Many troops have completely lost their combat effectiveness. It is impossible for us to  Let's launch the offensive as planned. "Paul, is the situation so serious?" Marshal Fuxi was surprised. It was not that Marshal Fuxi didn't know that influenza had begun to appear in the army. Someone reported this a few days ago.  However, in that era, some infectious diseases were normal in the army.  And these problems are not unsolvable. For example, the antibiotics provided by Americans are very effective.  How could this disease develop to such an extent in just a few days?  "Your Excellency, Marshal, 30% of the soldiers in the First Army and the Third Army have developed high fever symptoms, and the situation is continuing to worsen." the staff officer replied.  "Damn influenza!" Marshal Foch scolded. "It seems that the attack plan must be postponed. Fortunately, it's just a cold. I think the situation should improve significantly in two weeks."  Generally speaking, although colds, including common influenza, are very contagious, especially in densely populated areas like the military, and can make more than half of the people sick at once, most colds, even without medicine, will  It will take two weeks to basically recover. Therefore, Marshal Fuxi feels that this is just a matter of postponing the attack plan, and it is not a particularly big problem.  However, this time the flu completely exceeded Marshal Fuxi's imagination. Two days later, all the troops sent telegrams asking for help. These telegrams painted an extremely terrifying picture: Every troop began to appear because  The death rate from influenza infection has increased, and the death rate is as high as 6% to 8%, and more troops are beginning to see more patients.  "Your Majesty, Marshal, the situation is really terrible now." Staff Officer Paul said.  "What did our doctor say? Are antibiotics useless?" Marshal Fuxi asked. As an experienced commander, he certainly knew how much such an epidemic would hit the army.  It is simply no less than the loss in a major battle.  "Your Majesty Marshal, according to our medical scientists, the influenza virus that caused this pandemic is a brand new variant. We don't know yet any drugs that can treat it very effectively. Antibiotics are against bacteria. For  The virus has no effect. The Americans claim that they have a medicine from the East that can fight the virus, but we do not have any storage of this medicine" "Have our experts come up with anything?" Marshal Fuxi asked.  road.  "Dr. Swann said that this virus is spread through the air, so he suggested that we immediately provide masks to all soldiers, or simply let them wear gas masks at all times. In addition, all soldiers who have been infected must immediately  Be quarantined to avoid further contagion," Paul replied.  "Then immediately arrange to purchase masks and remove all those who are sickAh, by the way, Paul, what percentage of the soldiers in our front-line combat troops still don't have colds?" Marshal Fuxi asked.  ¡°It ranges from three to thirty percent, and the situation of each army is different.¡± Paul replied.  "Is this serious? If the Germans launch an attack at this time, it will be really troublesome." Marshal Fuxi said, "We make a plan to let other second-line troops come up first to take over their defense area. Replace all the troops.  Those who came down will be quarantined. In addition, the troops who will replace them must be prepared for epidemic prevention, and all accommodation facilities must be disinfected and wear masks or gas masks 24 hours a day"  "Marshal Fuxi is actually worried about the same thing.  ExactlyMarshal Denburg was worried because there was also widespread influenza infection among the German army.  Today's German army is doing the same thing as the French army. Naturally, it is impossible to launch an attack on the French army. Forget it, because of this influenza, the entire front line suddenly fell silent. It's true.  It¡¯s all quiet on the Western Front.  The influenza first broke out in the army, but it was not in the army that it really brought more terrible consequences.  The dense military personnel is certainly prone to pandemics, but on the other hand, the military is more organized, so the effectiveness of various measures is better. Coupled with the tilt in materials, although the military is the first to get sick, it is relatively  It's better to control it.  But this is not the case among the people. The organization of ordinary people cannot compare with the army, and they have fewer resources. So as the flu spread among the people, the whole of Europe fell into panic.  In the second round of the epidemic, the mortality rate of this influenza increased from about 0.4% to about 6%. Coupled with its terrible contagiousness, the number of deaths from this disease greatly increased.  increased.  Due to the lack of specific drugs, hospitals have once again become the hardest hit areas for infection.  Cross-infection among patients is so serious that many people dare not go near the hospital at all.  Even doctors are falling ill one after another - although they wear masks, many doctors still contract this terrible flu due to long-term contact with patients.   "Well, the pandemic has appeared, and now I will leave the rest to you." Scrooge said to Graystone and Donald, "Oh, besides, I guess this flu  It will land in the United States soon. Therefore, we must take precautions in advance. I will announce a few rules and hope that you will abide by them. First of all, you two must go out as little as possible and are not allowed to go anywhere until the epidemic passes.  Public places. The entire Duck Fort must be carefully and thoroughly disinfected, and you must drink antiviral oral liquid every day. Also, those little guys, find an excuse to let them come back to Duck Fort in the past few months.  , don¡¯t go to school or do anything else. Reduce your external contacts, such as meetings, and attend as little as possible. If you must attend, it¡¯s best to wear a gas mask. This epidemic is definitely not a trivial matter.  "I don't want anything to happen to our family." "Dad, we all know it," said Graystone, looking at Scrooge with awe.  "Okay, go and do your business."  Paris, France, Salvation Hospital Paris Branch.  There was a long queue in front of the fever clinic of Jiuen Hospital, and the queue even stretched to the street outside the hospital.  Generally speaking, people are unwilling and afraid to crowd together and queue at this time.  But because it was mentioned on the radio that Salvation Hospital now has the latest magic drug that may have a therapeutic effect on this flu-antiviral oral liquid, so many patients, accompanied by their family members, dragged heavy  Body, line up here.  The patients¡¯ family members all wore thick masks, and some even wore several layers of masks.  Recently, the price of masks has skyrocketed like crazy. In just over a week, the price of masks has increased more than ten times. Now, an ordinary cotton gauze mask can be sold for three francs.  To five francs, that's crazy.  In addition to masks, the price of alcohol has also increased significantly.  Because it is said that soaking the mask with alcohol can better protect against that terrible virus.  So, if you take the risk and walk next to this queue now, you will definitely smell the strong smell of alcohol. In addition to patients and family members who have to take risks for their loved ones, there are also people in the queue.  Another type of people are those who pay to stand in line for others.  These people are generally poor and have to take such risks in order to make some money.  Most of them can't afford authentic masks, which are getting more and more expensive nowadays, so they can only use homemade masks instead. As for the trick of constantly soaking masks with alcohol, they naturally can't afford it.  But, for money, you have to take some risks.  In fact, those who can queue up to buy medicine are from relatively good families, because the price of this antiviral oral solution is also very expensive.  Each one costs more than two francs.  However, Americans are really conscientious and have not deliberately raised the price, because before this, as a specific drug for various encephalitis, the price of this antiviral oral liquid has never been cheaper.  Although demand has increased significantly, McDonald's has basically maintained its original prices.  According to McDonald, the cost of some of the raw materials required for this drug is very high. In addition, the preparation process is very complicated, coupled with the high research and development costs, so today¡¯s price is really very conscientious.  The price is actually not very profitable at all.  Of course, few people really believe this is true.Got it.  Because the antiviral oral liquid has not applied for a patent, the formula has not been disclosed.  When MacDonald was promoting this drug, he mentioned that this drug uses a large number of ingredients from Chinese herbal medicine, but there are thousands of kinds of Chinese herbal medicine, and the prices are extremely different, so no one really knows the true cost of this thing.  .  However, McDonald's did not take the opportunity to raise prices, which definitely shows that McDonald's Pharmaceuticals is a conscientious company.
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