Chapter 408: The Riots Started at the US Airport
The United States has always used freedom and democracy as its slogans, and what people in this country like to do most is demonstrations.
It was only five hours before Li Daniu's news was released, which happened to be 10 o'clock the next morning in the United States.
In cities with international airports such as Los Angeles, Washington, and New York, patients with terminal cancer who could only wait to die were suddenly informed that a country had announced that it could completely cure cancer. And he also promised that if the treatment could not be cured, he would pay a cash compensation of 100,000 US dollars.
If this news were announced by another country or some other medical institution, many people would definitely think it was some new type of fraud. Because in that update, there was an article that required patients to bring SGD 5,000 for treatment.
According to the content of the exchange rate article pushed by WeChat, the official exchange rate of New Tuvalu’s new currency against the US dollar is 1:1, and 5,000 Singapore dollars is equivalent to 5,000 US dollars.
The first reaction of many people is, what if they get their $5,000 treatment fee, then walk away and refuse to honor the promised $100,000 compensation?
But the second reaction of these people was also surprisingly unanimous.
"The King of New Tuvalu said that? Then what are you worried about? They have plenty of money, and they always do what they say."
If Li Daniu knew that because he had not calculated it, the prize money for the eye-book lottery increased from the originally expected 100,000 U.S. dollars to millions of U.S. dollars, he would have gained more people's attention. Trust, will you turn to argue: "It's not that I didn't calculate it last time, but I scattered the money with a premeditation!"
After gaining credibility, these patients in the United States immediately packed their simple bags and rushed to the nearest city's international airport.
As for applying for a visa?
New Tuvalu is now visa-free for the whole world, why should I apply for a visa?
Can't you just bring your own passport?
I’m not in any special industry, so I can’t just leave the United States?
But what makes them feel disappointed and angry is that no matter it is Los Angeles or Washington, or New York, San Francisco, these cities with international airports, there is no direct flight to New Tuvalu.
"Are you fucking kidding me? Last week I was flying here to New Tuvalu, and there were at least three flights a day.
Now you are telling me that there are no direct flights? "
Some people started yelling at the ticket sales staff at the airport. When they booked tickets online, it showed that there were no tickets. They thought the airport had limited the number of tickets at the online ticketing port because of the recent shortage of flights to New Tuvalu. Unexpectedly, when they arrived at the airport ticket office, they found that there were no flights left.
Before anyone at the airport could reply, a cancer patient next to him who was also preparing to buy a ticket to New Tuvalu immediately started asking loudly.
"Have you been to New Tuvalu? Or did you make the plane here?"
"Of course! I just went for the interview last week. If I had known that New Tuvalu would be able to cure cancer today, I would never come back even if I were killed."
Who says Americans don't make noise in public?
The Chinese tourists waiting in line to buy tickets smiled and took out their mobile phones and started taking pictures.
Someone from the airport immediately came out to explain: "Because the distance between New Tuvalu and the United States is too far, ordinary civil aviation aircraft are simply not enough to support flying from our airport to the airport in New Tuvalu."
"Isn't your explanation too far-fetched?" A knowledgeable person immediately retorted: "How many direct flights to Australia are there on the flight schedule? How many direct flights to New Zealand are there? And from where we are, to What is the difference between the distance to Australia or New Zealand and the distance to New Tuvalu?”
New Tuvalu is more than 400 nautical miles away from the southernmost tip of New Zealand. According to the amount of aviation fuel that civil aviation aircraft must keep on board when flying to their destination, this distance is really nothing.
"Is it necessary to calculate distance? I could fly before, why can't I fly now? Please give us a reasonable explanation."
Although these Americans who are noisy now still maintain a certain degree of sanity, if you think about it carefully, you can find that almost all of these people are patients with intermediate and advanced cancer. For these people, stopping them from going to New Tuvalu at this time is completely equivalent to murdering them.
As more and more cancer patients continued to come to the airport, the airport was under increasing pressure. As a last resort, they dispatched ground security guards inside the airport and called the police.
In normal times, this method can instantly suppress this level of behavior that disturbs public order, but now, it is pouring a bucket of gasoline into the fire.
"I am a lawyer, and what we are doing now is a completely legal act to seek the normal rights of citizens and is not a disturbance to public order."
Cancer is a disease that does not differentiate between people from different professions or levels. No matter whether you are a lawyer or a senior official, you are still likely to get this disease.
In the United States, the people that government units are most afraid of dealing with are undoubtedly lawyers, and the police who come to handle the situation are naturally no exception.
While the two sides were in a stalemate, some relatives and friends of cancer patients also received news. As a cancer patient myself, it would be great fun if I were to suffer any damage due to this stalemate or the possible escalation of the conflict.
More and more people are calling for the immediate opening of flights, which will naturally attract American reporters who are watching the excitement and not taking it too seriously.
The ABC TV station in the United States immediately dispatched its live broadcast team to the nearest airport and began live broadcasting the situation. Such attractive news will naturally be included in emergency news.
In addition to ABC TV station, other TV stations were not to be outdone and sent out their own live broadcast teams. Thanks to the high-efficiency operation of the American media industry, in just half an hour, if you turn on any TV in the United States, you can almost see a scene of a confrontation at a certain airport.
After understanding the situation, the people were instantly in an uproar.
Although they still don't know why direct flights to New Tuvalu have been suspended, it does not mean that they do not sympathize with these cancer patients.
When life is about to come to an end, it is such a happy thing to suddenly see hope. But now, this hope has been intercepted for some unknown reason. How can the people not be angry?
Some people naturally went to the airport, and some people took out cardboard or other things directly from their homes or companies, wrote some simple slogans, and started to demonstrate on the streets.
As for how many people here want to take the opportunity to skip work?
The devil knows.
When a cancer patient suddenly fainted and fell to the ground because of this confrontation or because his hope of life was blocked, the airport where he was located instantly became chaotic.
Someone shouted: "Murder at the airport!"
Someone took the opportunity to create a new topic and shouted directly: "The government is not doing anything."
The chaotic scene left the police waiting there at a loss. Police officers are human beings too, and they also have relatives and friends. Naturally, they also know cancer patients. Some police officers even have cancer themselves.
Because there were also demonstrations in the city, the ambulance trip was greatly troubled. When the ambulance arrived at the airport, the fainted terminal cancer patient died on the spot due to some complications. die.
American reporters who were not afraid of trouble faithfully sent these shots to television sets in thousands of households across the United States.
For a moment, the entire United States seemed to be quiet. Then they burst out even more angry than before.
As the demonstrations grew larger and larger, an emergency meeting was taking place in the White House.
One congressman said resolutely: "I think New Tuvalu's measures are just to allow us to lift part of the sanctions against them. How can it be such a coincidence? Not long after we sanctioned them, they developed A cure for cancer, or a cure for it?"
Another congressman retorted: "However, their king said that if the treatment fails, he will pay a cash compensation of 100,000 US dollars."
"He is rich and willful. Moreover, he can use the excuse that the treatment has not been completed to delay the payment of this compensation. If he said that the treatment will take three years, then who knows whether there will really be a treatment after three years What about cancer?”
This congressman's reasoning instantly made it impossible for others to refute.
Yes, they only said that it can treat cancer, but they did not say how long the treatment time is. If it is really like this, it will take three years or even longer, and maybe those patients with advanced cancer will have died. At that time, who will be compensated for this so-called 100,000 US dollars?
When the meeting fell into a brief silence, someone quietly walked into the meeting room and whispered a few words in the president's ear.
The president's face instantly became extremely wonderful, and he said: "The question now is not whether he has developed a cure for cancer, but whether we should lift the flight ban immediately."
Under the puzzled looks of other congressmen, the president's secretary directly turned on the TV in the conference room, and then locked the ABC TV station.