"I sit in front of the window every day, looking at the big tree outside, which is not a big tree with four floors high. From autumn to winter, I see the once dense leaves falling one after another. Now, the leaves are about to fall, but I still can't get out..."
My friend said this, his tone was very calm, but on the other end of the phone, I could still feel his helplessness and sadness. Somehow, his words reminded me of the famous article "The Last Falling Leaf".
He was banned at home on the 12th last month, and it has been 42 days today.
In the first few days, he was allowed to go out to buy vegetables. At that time, he didn't feel panic, thinking that it would be fine if he blocked it for a few days at most. But unexpectedly, as the wind became more and more intense, it changed from only a few communities to the entire city's silence.
At the same time, the management of the community has been tightened and entry and exit is prohibited. The property started to recruit volunteers in the group, but almost no one was willing to apply. In the end, each family had to send one person, each person was two hours away, and took turns to be on duty in the door opening.
My friend rented a house in that community for many years and was familiar with the property security guards and so on. He took advantage of the time of duty and went out to buy some food in a red jacket and armband. Now that I think about it, I am scared. If I hadn't taken the opportunity to go out that time, I might have been hungry later. Because within two days, the supermarkets and vegetable shops outside were forced to close. And a few days later, someone asked for help in the group to find food.
My friend lives in a house with three households, and there are nine households upstairs. Soon, people upstairs said in the building group that there was someone in their family, and that the whole family had been diagnosed. Some patients were taken away on the same day, while others stayed at home for several days without anyone asking, which made everyone in the unit panic.
A few days after that, with the outbreak of the Foxconn incident, the epidemic in Zhengzhou attracted national attention and was also criticized by the State Council twice. Soon, the fancy performances in Zhengzhou began to be unblocked. Unfortunately, my friends didn’t even have the chance to be an extra. Their community has always been under lockdown without leaving home.
During this period, residents can also ask the property management to help buy vegetables and food in the group, but the quality and price of those vegetables are hard to describe.
Fortunately, things began to develop in a good direction, and other areas began to be gradually unblocked. A friend asked a free friend to help buy some meat and vegetables to deliver them to the community entrance, and asked the building manager to take it over and transfer it to him, the price was to give the building manager a piece of meat.
During this period, all nine families upstairs have been hit. What is even more puzzling is that they have been blocked for a month, and the family of three next door has become alive. Where did this virus come from? My friend said that the epidemic has been going on for three years, and he never thought that the epidemic would be so close to him and would make him so scared! He heard that the virus could be spread from the sewer pipe through aerosol , so he was so scared that he even tried to avoid the bathroom. Moreover, he felt that the corridor was full of viruses. Now, let alone leaving the house, he would not dare to go out even if he was given up.
The introduction of the 20 new policies on epidemic prevention has given people banned hope. Zhengzhou’s policy is: as long as the unit where it is positive is cleared, it can be unblocked after three days of observation. But what's so bad is that there are all families who have been infected with the houses of my friend, and the rest of them were pulled away, leaving only a paralyzed old man and his daughter who were forced to stay and take care of him. Because it is inconvenient to go downstairs, no one came to pull them away.
If these two "yang people" are there, the people in the entire unit will not see the hope of unblocking. Moreover, there was a confirmed case living above my head, which made others worry that they would be sent to the temporary cabin at all times. Someone has looked for a property in the group, but there is no response. For this reason, they made an appointment to protest at night.
My friend said that he would smash the aluminum basin that night, but fortunately the property finally responded and transferred the father and daughter away overnight.
The entire unit has finally been cleared and will be unblocked in three days! But before two days of happiness, the property management sent another message: Receive the notice from the superior that the community will continue to be silent for five days starting tomorrow! My friend said that he was a little anxious and impatient at first, but now he is numb.
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From the day I was blocked, my friend would call me or send messages every day, and voice calls every night have become routine. We talked about everything, but one thing was tacit, that was not about work, and I knew that would make him even more upset.
One hour ago, we chatted for a while, and he told me that the day after tomorrow would be unblocked. There was a hint of excitement in my words. Before I could congratulate him, a scolding came from the other end of the phone: X, I will be silent until the end of the month again!
Then he transferred the notification to me and hung up the phone immediately. I felt like he was about to collapse. But I really don’t know how to comfort him, I hope this news can be a rumor!
If the news is true, he will be banned for fifty days!
