If an epidemic occurs in a prison, what will be the serious consequences?

Let’s not talk about what will happen if an epidemic occurs in the prison, because everyone knows that the situation is serious. Let me just talk about why the pneumonia epidemic occurred in the prison this time.

Prisons are usually under closed management, and there may be three types of outsiders that inmates in the prison can come into close contact with: family members of criminals having family dinners, outside staff and prison guards.

First of all, let’s talk about family dinners. The frequency of family dinners is very low. It is not ruled out that some prisons will arrange one before the Chinese New Year. However, as soon as the epidemic was reported at that time, family dinners would basically be stopped, so this type of people is basically not infected. possible.

Then there are outside workers. The prison will organize the labor of inmates, and these skilled workers from the manufacturer will go to the workshop every day to guide production. If the outside workers have become sick a week before January 24, they are very likely to infect the prisoners. However, external workers were not allowed to enter the prison after Academician Zhong Nanshan said that human-to-human transmission was not possible, so there is still some possibility of infection from this type of people.

Finally, there are the prison guards. Prison guards are not always in the prison and work in several shifts. Therefore, just like the external workers, if they have been infected before January 24, they are very likely to be infected. to criminals. For example, a police officer in Shilifeng Prison in Zhejiang deliberately concealed the fact that he went to Wuhan to visit relatives from January 14 to 19 and then returned to work, thereby infecting people in the prison. After January 24, we implemented a 14 14 14 working mode, so the possibility of infection is very low.

In addition to objective factors such as the highly contagious nature of the virus, long incubation period, and asymptomatic infection, the occurrence of this prison epidemic was also due to the concealment and late reporting of Wuhan travel history and close contact history by a very small number of police officers. factors. However, I still hope that everyone will not deny or criticize the vast majority of police officers who are working silently on the front line because of the bad practices of a few people in this team.

Take our prison as an example. They have been on duty for 16 days, and the second batch has been on duty for 16 days. Today they have been on duty for 10 days. They have not seen their families for a month.

There is a saying that is widely circulated on the Internet: "There are no quiet years, but there are people who bear the burden for you." At this moment, tens of thousands of prison police officers are leaving their homes and working hard to maintain social stability during the epidemic! We also ask the public not to slander all the police officers who are working because of the failure of a few police officers to fulfill their duties.

I hope that the prison epidemic can be effectively controlled and that the national epidemic can end as soon as possible. I also wish that all the prison guards who silently stick to the front line will be safe and reunited with their relatives as soon as possible!