The “household closure” came unawares, and the entire city’s procurement platform and distribution system was instantly paralyzed. In the modern society of great material abundance, the fear of Food cuts was like an unknown black hole, making even the originally calm people fall into panic step by step.
The Epidemic reappears
Liu Yun first learned of the epidemic from a customer. In the evening of Jan. 12, Liu Yun heard people talking about the epidemic while watching the store. Soon, a customer checking out told her, “How do you not know anything about it? Look at your circle of friends, there is already a case in Tonghua. “
In fact, throughout the day on January 12, five new asymptomatic infections of the new coronavirus were reported in Tonghua. The outbreak originated in a “health center” where an infected person traveled back and forth between the two provinces, carrying out four health training sessions for middle-aged and elderly people in Gongzhuling City and Tonghua City. Marketing activities led to a number of “trainees” being infected.
Before that, the small city in southern Jilin had been free of new cases for nearly 10 months. The “new crown” seemed a bit distant from the citizens of Tonghua, with few people wearing masks on the road. The news of new confirmed cases like a boulder into the calm water, Liu Yun some panic, “right next to their own, are asymptomatic infection, how do I know if the customers who come in the store is infected? “
She is not the only one who is nervous, the next day, Liu Yun’s small store “was robbed”. The kiosk is only a dozen square meters, the scale is not large, no fresh vegetables, only selling some household items and rice, noodles, snacks and other easy to store food. Even so, the store was bought a large part of the things.
Husband Zhang Qiang thinks that people’s reaction is a bit too much, “What is there to grab? Last year was so serious, there is no shortage of anything, but still let you can not eat? “Zhang Qiang in a local bathing place to work, after the outbreak of the epidemic all public places closed, he went Home and Liu Yun together to look at the store. The store is small, only a simple bed, two people take turns to spend the night in the store.
On January 15, the city of Tonghua began nucleic acid testing throughout the city. Liu Yun lives in the district of the detection point is downstairs, open air, “like a queue to buy food, are a community of people, know each other, are standing chat. “Occasionally there are one or two precautionary people, deliberately keep a distance from the crowd.
The community did not make arrangements for sub-cells and Time slots, and there were long lines of residents waiting to be tested. The temperature that day was minus twenty degrees, the community testing from six or seven in the morning until after 11 pm. Kong Jueying, a senior who lives in Dongchang District, was also in the long queue, and took advantage of the moment to organize the owners of the building and two neighboring buildings to pull up a WeChat group to update the progress of testing in the group, reducing the time the group spent frozen in the cold wind.
Liu Yun queued for an hour and a half to do the test, “freezing cold hands and feet, with the cat bitten. “After returning to the house, she called her daughter Hui Hui, “Mom is freezing to death, those who gave a day to do the test can do ah? “
Closure
The calm did not last long. Starting on January 12, new confirmed cases appeared every day in Tonghua. The atmosphere began to be tense again, the 18th Tonghua City issued a notice, urban areas as a residential district, the countryside to the natural tunnels as a unit, the full implementation of closed management.
Liu Yun is an acute person, heard from neighbors that 4 p.m. to close the community, hurriedly ran to the supermarket outside the community to buy some rice, and around to their own store, to get back a few packets of instant noodles and ham. Usually, the couple cooks in the store, and there is not even soy sauce and vinegar at home. In those days, fresh vegetables in the supermarket were still available, although the price had gone up by a dollar or two.
She didn’t buy much food and the calmness of the Family pacified her. Her daughter, Hui Hui, who works in Hunan, kept calling to tell her, “Bring a good mask and don’t go to the pile to grab something. “Hui Hui has a number in mind, last year when the Wuhan epidemic was serious, the district was also closed, but residents were allowed to do passes to enter and exit, and supermarket prices quickly came down after a small increase. Husband Zhang Qiang also joked, “old men and women like to receive eggs to take advantage of the epidemic, and now take the lead in grabbing vegetables, if only to lead to price increases. “
The “eggs”, is the local population “health hall The usual method of the health center is to let the elderly listen to the class and sign in, sending free eggs. Tonghua is a city with a serious aging population, and the large number of elderly people has provided the soil for the spread of health centers. Hui Hui told me that in the area, there is a health center in almost every neighborhood. When her grandmother was alive, she was an avid fan of the health center, and “the family couldn’t stop her.
When Liu Yun walked to the entrance of the district with instant noodles, the “blocking of the district” had already begun, and she was stopped by the staff on duty at the card point outside the door. “I was told to enter the door”.
Zhang Qiang remained in the store. Since the day of the closure of the district, all commercial activities in Tonghua have been suspended, and the doors of the supermarkets on the street are closed, but the kiosks located inside the district have not yet received notice of closure. Liu Yun’s family’s kiosk is getting busier and busier, one side is the rush of residents inside the district, the other side is the inaccessibility of goods. The store’s supplies are decreasing a little bit, Liu Yun called her husband and urged him to “stock up some rice and noodles for his family. At that time, she was wondering when the community would notify for access cards.
The “household closure” came unannounced.
On January 21 at 9:00 pm, Liu Yun was washing up when she suddenly received a phone call from a friend, urging her, “Quickly let your old PR store go home, to close the household! If you wait any longer, you won’t be able to come back! “About an hour ago, the city of Tonghua issued a notice, from 22:00 onwards on the Dongchang District residential households to implement the seal closed control, residents are not allowed to go out, community workers to help solve the needs of the distribution of household goods, closed management to lift the time of another notice.
Even last year, when the national epidemic was at its worst, Tonghua did not “seal households”. Liu Yun panicked again, the heating in the kiosk is not enough, only 15 or 16 degrees at night, she was afraid, busy calling Zhang Qiang, “not sold not sold! You come back quickly! “And let him take the rice and noodles home with him. Calling at the same time, Liu Yun’s phone WeChat and payment collection sounded crazy, “the phone blew up like”. Later she learned that the kiosk was crowded with more than a dozen people buying things at the same time, “the door can not be closed. “
Hang up the phone is already 10:00 p.m. out. The door has not been sealed, Liu Yun ran to the entrance of the district to find the staff of the card, pleading “do not seal my home first, my husband immediately back. “But the kiosk is located in the community closed, Zhang Qiang has not been able to get out.
Until 11:30 p.m., Zhang Qiang suddenly knocked on the door. He reported to the police, sent home by the police, Liu Yun’s heart was only slightly relaxed. In a hurry, Zhang Qiang held back a puppy kept in the commissary, a cabbage and a sauerkraut, but only left behind the rice and noodles.
Fear of food cuts
The city of Tonghua was pressed the pause button overnight. Staff in protective clothing worked through the night to put a seal on each house. Liu Yun did not know what time the seals were put on her house late at night. When she woke up the next day, there were no pedestrians on the road, no cars, no sound, like the Wuhan she saw in a video last February.
After the seal was put on, Hui, who had been calm, was overwhelmed and was afraid to let go of her phone all day and night. She saw someone in the WeChat group forwarded a message saying that the length of the closure is three days, “if the second round of nucleic acid testing after the entire district is negative, you can take access to the pass. “From January 20 to 22, the second round of full nucleic acid testing in Tonghua is basically over, the cumulative collection of samples in the city has come out of the results of 360,000 people, positive 88 cases.
Liu Yun’s family’s neighborhood has no positive cases, but also did not get the news of unsealing. With only a little rice and instant noodles left in the house, Liu Yun and her husband switched to eating two meals a day. She has not eaten vegetables for three or four days, began to mouth ulcers, “constantly drinking water, in order to solve the hunger, but also afraid that they are on fire. “22, early in the morning of the first day after the closure of the household, she asked in her circle of friends,” who has the phone number of Life supplies distribution? “Friends sent her eight or nine phone numbers, but also pulled her into the supermarket procurement group. Liu Yun called one by one, and each number got through, but all of them were unanswered.
Hui Hui began to help Parents on the phone to “grab food”. From 7:00 am on the 22nd, she kept refreshing several small programs and APPs for purchasing purchases, and all the stores inside showed “resting”. She once placed a successful order, and then quickly canceled the order, she was anxious to cry. Until 9:00 a.m. on the 24th, Hui Hui swiped to a supermarket briefly opened, “a brain fever”, too late to look carefully, quickly ordered a bag of rice and a few bundles of vegetables. A few minutes later, the store was closed again. Hui Hui wondered if the order she placed still counts, “the takeaway is shut in the house, someone can send us? “
Liu Yun reassured her daughter, “It’s normal. “She saw the supermarket staff said in the WeChat group, open 10 minutes of time, an influx of more than 1,000 orders, “simply can not be sent over “. Her daughter asked her if she had ever been hungry since she grew up. Liu Yun said, “No, much less thought about this era will be starved because of the epidemic. “She could only finely arrange the food in the house. “My husband ate at ten in the morning and was hungry at two or three in the afternoon. I do not let him eat, there are things I do not dare to let him eat, I’m afraid to eat after there is no what to do? “
Those were the most difficult days for many Tonghua citizens. The date of unsealing was unknown, and the fear of a possible “food cut” made them cautious. Messages kept popping up in every local group asking for phone numbers to buy groceries, ways to send groceries from out of town, and information about “food outages”. But there seems to be no more effective solution other than “contacting the grid worker”.
Liu Yun once heard the grid member in the district said that he had not returned home for five days. The most heartbreaking thing for her is that the WeChat group circulated a picture of a request for help to buy drugs and eggs, with the door number and cell phone number written on it, “there is a 92-year-old bedridden, we are both more than 70 years old, can not buy things online, I take 300 yuan to help buy. “
There are also some young people who have prepared in advance. Chen Yu, a junior college student, told me that before the closure of the household, some WeChat group stream has been circulating government documents on the distribution of supplies, their own foreboding “may have a more stringent closure” . When the epidemic first appeared, the government had urged people to “not grab vegetables,” but Kong Jueying still urged her parents to buy staples and cabbage and potatoes that would last for several days. After the closure of the house, the family was careful to maintain a daily diet of boiled noodles, congee and pickles, and vegetables. 24, someone in Kong’s neighborhood put a rope out of the window and passed food from upstairs to downstairs. If you don’t have a rope, you can tear up your bed sheets and clothes and tie them into a rope.
She saw in the WeChat group she formed that a resident on the top floor of the next unit building asked for help, “There is absolutely no dry food left to eat at home. “She felt a little powerless, and said somewhat pessimistically in the microblogging: “Calling the day, calling the ground.
“Self-help”
“Do not say those useless, are top microblogging self-help, let us on the hot search, let the country attention to us! “In the afternoon of the 24th, Liu Yun saw the call of her friends on WeChat.
She had never used microblogging, rushed to download a software in the phone, logged in. “Once I went up, I saw so many people talking about Tonghua, I also said a few words, and when someone asked me, I replied. “Liu Yun flirted,” to me, an old woman in her fifties, hungry ah, but also had to learn on the microblogging. “She stared at Tonghua’s words floating up and down the hot search list. In order to get as much exposure as possible, many Tonghua citizens left messages under the microblogs of major media, or spoke with other hot search terms, “Please pay attention to the livelihood of Tonghua! “”Tonghua is in shortage of supplies” “Tonghua needs support,” and similar content was constantly splashed across the screen.
On January 24, deputy mayor of Tonghua Jiang Haiyan apologized at a press conference for the lack of timely delivery of supplies to the public, and said that a volunteer service team had been set up to protect people’s livelihoods, and would provide free services for residents to purchase and deliver essential goods on their behalf, at half price for each household’s 5-day demand. “Vegetable package”, will be sent out at 6:00 am the next day all.
At 9:00 p.m. that day, Liu Yun and Zhang Qiang lying on the window, see the delivery of supplies of the vehicle drove into the next neighborhood one after another, “hoping for the moon, send food to come. “But waited for a long time, but also did not deliver to Liu Yun’s home district. Zhang Qiang called the grid, was told that “your home is a newly completed community, do not know how many households, so you are not included in the community. Zhang Qiang got anxious and quarreled with the grid clerk. Finally, Liu Yun contacted the property and the community, before the cell block registration on.
More than 5:00 a.m. on the 25th, volunteers in protective clothing delivered vegetable packages to Liu Yun’s home downstairs, a cabbage, a few white radish, a cabbage, in a large blue plastic bag. Liu Yun took pictures of the vegetables and sent them to his circle of friends, “Thank you to the government for the life-saving vegetables, and thank you to the ‘Dabai guys’ for going out of their way to run around! Grateful! “What surprised her was that the rice and vegetables that Huihui grabbed on her phone were subsequently delivered. The supplies in hand dispelled some of the fears, and that night, the couple finally “ate a full meal”.
The vegetable package of Kong Jueying’s family was delivered only in the evening of the 26th. 25 evening, seeing that people in the circle of friends received vegetable packages one after another, Kong Jueying and his family fried the last remaining large package of vegetables, “to celebrate, moving up there is hope. “She sent the reporter a picture of a stainless steel bowl eaten shiny.
However, she opened the grocery platform found that all the stores on it still show “suspended”, running errands on behalf of the purchase “Not in the scope of services”. The rushed delivery system still left a lot of problems, some communities received a small number of vegetable packages, only to “tighten up the people who really do not have food”, there are The quality of the vegetable packages varies, and is not enough to support the five-day volume.
Chen Yu is most worried about the people who deliver the supplies. 26, Tonghua snow, she posted a video in her circle of friends, looking out of the window, five volunteers in protective clothing stumbled to the fence outside the community, and immediately fell down in the thick snow. “Many places in the eastern provinces are taking care of themselves, can more people come to support, to replace the front-line personnel who have been working continuously for ten days? “
(Liu Yun, Hui Hui, Kong Jueying, Zhang Qiang are pseudonyms in the article)
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