Friends on the front line of Epidemic prevention and control. She said the biggest lesson from the year was that the more turbulent the times, the more important it is not to live with the perspective of the big man. She gave three examples, recorded in the first person for convenience.
II.
This year, I tracked a total of more than 6,000 people who came back from abroad, both Chinese and foreign, from airplanes and from ships. An important point in our good control of the epidemic is our strong traceability and control ability, both of which can only be achieved precisely by people watching people. There are three things in this “man-to-man” battle that I can’t forget for a long Time.
The first one is the birth of separation.
The other party is a German couple, came to China to invest for many years, living in Zhejiang for a long time. The husband was in the country, the wife returned from Germany with two young sons. Because the eldest son has a serious mental illness, they came to apply for direct Home isolation, saying that the Family has a detached villa and is far away from the neighbors, which fully meets the conditions for isolation, and is also willing to accept 24-hour monitoring. From experience, I knew this could not be applied for. But for some reason, there was something heartbreaking in this German man’s voice, and it hit me like a little hammer.
I helped him find a way to enter from Shanghai. At that time, Shanghai was 7+7, 7 days medical isolation, 7 days home isolation, less than Zhejiang isolation week. But the first night I stayed in a Shanghai hotel, my 10-year-old son became ill. His wife and youngest son, 6 years old, also had severe skin allergies due to stress and allergies, and to add insult to injury, the three mothers barely ate rice. The German man drove more than three hours to the isolation site with Food and toys. But the stuff couldn’t be brought in. He called me and asked me: Do you only have rules and policies in your eyes? Don’t you have children or loved ones?
I wanted to tell him that at this time, grassroots personnel can only follow the rules and policies, even if there is unreasonableness in this policy. Otherwise, it would be chaos. But I couldn’t say it. I just listened to him in silence. In him, I saw an anxious husband, a helpless father, a man who had been struck by the epidemic.
I thought that after 7 days of quarantine, I would be able to quarantine at home. But on the fifth day, the policy changed. All Shanghai arrivals, destined for Zhejiang, were sent by special bus to Jiaxing after 7 days of unified quarantine. Jiaxing quarantine conditions are far from Shanghai. This man, again, drove his car to Jiaxing every day. Of course he could not see his wife and children. He just wanted to be close to his fragile wife, a little closer.
The second piece, is a dead goodbye.
A foreign company’s Korean executives, due to the epidemic did not go home for a year, one day suddenly died suddenly in the dormitory. The wife and children had to come to deal with the aftermath, and they needed to apply for an invitation to China, and only with the invitation could they get a visa. The process was complicated and cumbersome, and I helped her apply for a humanitarian green channel. But even then, it was already a month after this woman saw her husband after his death.
Can you imagine? In the fall of 2020, at a funeral home somewhere in China, a Korean woman, with her two children, went to claim her husband’s body after 14 days of medical isolation, wearing a protective suit and goggles. The woman wanted to take the body back to Korea and have a traditional funeral service when she arrived home. But everyone told her that she could not take it with her and that it would have to be cremated on site. On the day she received the urn, the staff member who translated for her whispered in Chinese: This afterlife is too torturous.
It was. A woman, with two children, traveling back and forth for two months, 28 days of isolation alone. It’s brutal to think about. The epidemic cut a person’s death and a complete pain.
The third piece, is the love can not.
The young man was 90 years old, a seafarer, stranded at sea for 8 months due to the epidemic. Every seafarer who comes ashore, we have information logged and tracked.
Ask him: please provide an emergency phone number, Parents, loved ones are fine.
A: No parents.
Q: What about a lover?
A: Not married.
Q: Siblings are fine.
A: Neither.
After a pause, he said: Leave my aunt’s.
Q: The return address is right?
A: The old home does not go back for many years. Leave the aunt’s home.
That is an extremely remote village in Shandong, the address of the village kiosk.
Usually after the phone call, will say: thanks for cooperation, goodbye.
That day, added a sentence: return trip have a safe journey.
I don’t know, this young man who was stuck at sea for 8 months, what was his journey for the past half year, did he look out at the sea, did he complain about the epidemic, did he suddenly cry at night. The epidemic rubbed his sore spots, and he had a reason to cry a few times.
Three.
Many people do not want to read these concrete and micro things.
They like grand narratives, politics, economics, the world situation, and “in the face of the epidemic, we have delivered a beautiful answer”. They feel that specific people, small sorrows and joys, are not worth mentioning. They do not know that to perceive the times and to perceive oneself is to perceive these specific people and to chew on the sorrows and joys of these people.
They are them, and they are also us.
IV.
The 1920s of the 21st century is destined to be a turbulent era.
The first thing to learn about living in such an era is not to be held hostage by the macro turmoil and not to live from the perspective of the big man. Otherwise, your emotions, every day, are stormy. Over time, you will have a pessimistic plus panic stress disorder. The stock market is high, chasing high is you, the stock market is down, kill the fall is also you. Neither the courage to buy a house with the old for the new, nor the willingness to live in the old neighborhood of tranquility. You will step by step to this turbulent grandeur, surrender your wisdom, your judgment.
Turbulent times, the most afraid of people left and right entangled, back and forth anxiety.
We have to practice an ability to make our inner stability and clarity, and let this ability to hold up a small world for ourselves. In this small world, we take ourselves, lead our children, live a stable Life and play happily.
Start by chewing on the little sorrows and joys around you. With awareness and compassion for ourselves and others, we can see ourselves, heaven and earth, and all beings step by step.
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