Most of these patients have recovered. Apart from employment, "positive" has been deeply embedded in their lives. The water surface seems calm, but the memories hidden in a certain section still exist, becoming an indelible sting.
article | Zhong Yixuan Zhou Xinyu
Edited | Zhao Lei
Operation | Painting firefly
People who have passed the sun
"People who have passed the sun", this word is used on Lele, who is only 6 years old.
htmlOne day in May, Lele was playing in the flower bed downstairs of the community. A girl suddenly appeared, pulled Lele's playmate, pointed at Lele and said, "Her mother got the new crown ." The children were stunned for a moment and squeezed beside Lele, "Do your mother get the new crown?" Lele's smile disappeared immediately, she lowered her head, pursed her lips and did not speak.
Liu Wei in the distance saw her and strode to hold her daughter Lele's hand. The child's hand was trembling gently, "Lele is a very sensitive child, I know she is very nervous." She asked the girl who told her this. "My sister, she is a volunteer of the neighborhood committee."
Liu Wei's family of three were transferred to the temporary cabin on April 12. It was not until April 21 that they finally waited for the news of their return home. Before that, the nucleic acid was negative many times. Before Liu Wei took Lele downstairs, she also obtained a pass issued by the neighborhood committee, which means that they have the right to move freely.
Nest committee staff once greeted Liu Wei's family at the entrance of the community when they returned from the cabin, "You are suffering, we have left you vegetables and will be delivered to you later." Liu Wei was very moved at the time, but she didn't know that after she turned around and left, the names of the three of her family were marked on the residential committee's residential manual, "People returning to the cabin". Later, when the volunteer who registered for nucleic acid test saw Liu Wei take Lele downstairs, he told his sister, "That child and her mother will have to survive the new crown, so you have to wear a mask."
"Is it because I didn't wear a mask? Is it still used as a negative teaching material to be judged morally?" Liu Wei took Lele to the neighborhood committee. She took the child with her specifically to let the child understand that being infected with the virus should not be discriminated against.
As a professor at a university in Shanghai, Liu Wei blushed with others for the first time, "You lack basic respect for people!" She regretted that she was excited when she quarreled, she shed tears, and her heart was filled with guilt for the child. The neighborhood committee kept apologizing to her, "There will definitely not be similar in the future volunteer work."
Standed on the podium for so many years, Liu Wei found out that she couldn't explain the truth for the first time. What's there to be criticized for me? Why should my children and I be treated differently?
21-year-old Chen Feng also encountered different treatments. On July 8, he lined up in front of the intermediary store where he worked to do nucleic acid and happened to be standing among a couple. Due to mixed examinations, the woman in front of him was already the last in the previous jail. According to the requirements, a positive infected person like Chen Feng needed a single jail test. He received a separate canal with a small red label on it.
Soon, the man behind him, as the first person in the next batch of mixed inspections, also received a tube. The one in Chen Feng's hand seemed particularly dazzling. The man asked the staff next to him, "Why is this person one by one?" The staff told him that Chen Feng had entered the cabin.
The man quickly shouted in the direction of his wife, winked and glanced at Chen Feng, "This person is positive, please stay away from him." When the people around him heard this, they quietly moved a few steps without hesitation. A wave of nameless fire rushed over to the top of his head, and Chen Feng had a conflict with the man, but the other party was tough, "If I discriminate against you, I wouldn't do this nucleic acid, it's because you are too inferior."
The two of them got to the police car near the nucleic acid point. The man cursed and said "Ce Na" one by one. Chen Feng's face turned red with anger, unable to speak, and tears rolled in his eyes.The police mediated the two of them. When they left, the man turned around and pointed at Chen Feng, "You see, he is about to cry."
In the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic, prevention and control has become a normal state, and people have dealt with it more calmly, but the metaphorization and stigmatization of the COVID-19 pandemic have become a derivative problem that we must face.
Liu Wei and Chen Feng’s experience is not the worst. Some media visited many labor agency units in Songjiang District, Shanghai and found that many institutions claimed that it is difficult for people who have passed the imperial examination to find jobs. Some even directly said that "if you have passed the imperial examination to do so", even if this person was a former volunteer in the cabin.
▲ Many gig workers recruitment conditions emphasize: "If you have entered the temporary cabin, don't want to." Picture / Network
Even if you find a job, someone will be fired because you have been infected with the new crown. A blogger publicly stated on social platforms that she had been infected with the new coronavirus while studying for a postgraduate degree in Ukraine. After returning to China, she worked as a Russian teacher in an institution. After the employer learned that she had been infected with the new coronavirus, she actually asked her to resign.
On July 13, the State Council Executive Meeting clearly required that workers should be protected with equal employment rights and strictly prohibited from discriminating those who had tested positive for the nucleic acid of the new coronavirus in employment. On July 21, the Shanghai People's Congress passed the "Decision of the Standing Committee of the Shanghai Municipal People's Congress on Further Improving Current Employment Promotion", and shall not refuse to hire employees on the grounds of having suffered from infectious diseases.
Although employers dare not openly violate the regulations, discrimination still exists in the workplace in a hidden form.
5 In May, Wu Jing and her husband were tested positive for the new crown. After returning from the temporary cabin at the end of the month, Wu Jing sent a message to her leader asking when she could go to work. The other party first said that she would wait for a week and then ask a few days later, which turned into more than a month. Finally, the leader directly pointed out, "Everyone is very scared, and my colleagues said that if you come to work, they will resign collectively."
"Oh my God, can you understand my heartache at that time?" She has been in the company for three years, and some colleagues have become good friends. In the past, the company has always talked about "unity and friendship", but now no one is willing to speak out for her. There was a colleague who was not very familiar with her and sent her messages regularly every day, including one in the morning, noon and evening, "What do you feel now?" "Have you taken medicine?" "Did you have a fever today?" Later, this colleague took a leave for a while, and Wu Jing received another message from her: "I'm back home, you can come to work these days." When
can't go to work, Wu Jing's monthly salary is less than 2,000 yuan. She calculated that the expenses for renting a house and eating were close to 5,000 yuan, the mortgage of her hometown is 6,000 yuan, and the child's milk powder cannot be saved. Fortunately, her husband's company is quite open-minded and does not affect her work. At first, her husband said he would wear a mask and a protective mask to go to the company, but his colleagues joked and refused, "We were not infected when you were diagnosed. If you recover, how could we have something wrong?"
But Wu Jing never waited for the news that the company allowed her to resume work. She once called 12345 for help, but the other party told her that this situation might not be easy to accept, because the company did not fire her and still paid her a minimum wage. As the days passed, Wu Jing could no longer wait. She called the leader's phone number and said, "I want to resign." The leader did not even try to keep her, and replied directly, "Okay."
Wang Fangfang was not discriminated against by the unit, but her work was also affected. She worked as a teller at the jewelry counter of a large department store in Shanghai. After resuming work on June 1, the supervisor notified her that employees with a history of positive infections were suspended from entering the mall, "This is what the mall leader means."
Wang Fangfang accepted this condition. She thought it was just a temporary arrangement, but until now, Wang Fangfang's working hours are still far away, and she was temporarily arranged in a shop on the street. In the jewelry sales industry, there is a hidden rule that seconded employees cannot compete with the original employees. In this way, Wang Fangfang has been reduced from main sales to auxiliary sales. Her daily job is to add tea and water to customers when her colleagues are responsible for recommending products.
salary has also fallen all the way. When the epidemic in Shanghai was at its worst, Wang Fangfang's home salary was only over 2,000 yuan. Now, because of no sales performance, people can only get a salary of about 4,000 yuan every day in stores. "This salary cannot survive in Shanghai." She called 12345 to complain again and again, and the customer service told her that this was a legal complaint and found a legal aid phone number. The other party said that this might involve excessive epidemic prevention. Wang Fangfang finally called the epidemic prevention office. This matter was characterized as a shopping mall and company behavior, and she needed to coordinate with the employment unit herself.
Wang Fangfang completely gave up the complaint. One day later, 12345 called back and asked her if the problem had been resolved. "There is nothing to say." She said to the other end and decisively cut off the phone.
"History without positive", this tag is so realistically placed in front of people who have been infected with the new crown positive for the first time. According to the National Health Commission notice, as of 24:00 on July 20, 2022, 31 provinces (autonomous regions, municipalities) and Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps have reported a total of 228,180 confirmed cases. Most of these patients have recovered. Apart from employment, the "positive" has been deeply embedded in their lives. The water surface seems calm, but the memories hidden in a certain section still exist, becoming an indelible sting.
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Innocent infected person
Many people still don’t know how they are infected with the new crown.
has no signs. On April 2, Liu Wei, who had been blocked at home for more than ten days, suddenly started to have a fever. A day later, two bars appeared on her antigen , "It was still negative the day before, and I haven't left the house either, I don't know why." Chen Feng, who is also in Shanghai, had been staying at home for more than ten days before the diagnosis. Apart from taking supplies and opening windows, they had almost no contact with the outside world.
After having a fever, Liu Wei moved to a room alone at her home of less than 70 square meters. Under the same roof, Lele couldn't see her mother. She wrote several letters and drew a cartoon mother wearing a skirt and a mask, and stuffed it into the crack of Liu Wei's door:
"Mom: I love you, I want to ask, how are you? I'm a little worried. What will happen if you ask you to go to quarantine?"
"My mother is sick, and I really want her to recover soon."
On April 4, Liu Wei's husband also had a fever, and Lele began to cry unstoppably, and she was worried that her parents would be taken away to quarantine. Liu Wei once heard from her colleague that the neighbors upstairs were taken away and quarantined, leaving only the child at home. She sent a WeChat message to her husband through a door and used 5 exclamation marks , "You must not be separated from your child!!!!"
That night, Lele did not sleep well overnight, and had nightmares repeatedly, shouting "Let me go." The next day, Lele also had a fever, and Liu Wei and her husband breathed a sigh of relief, at least the child would not be separated from them. In the early morning of April 12, Liu Wei's family was transferred to the cabin, and the couple reached a tacit understanding - not telling Lele's cabin what kind of place it is. "I can't imagine what kind of blow the child will suffer after he knows that he wants to be isolated from society."
When he packed up his things, Lele was wearing his school uniform. It was the exam week, and she brought all the textbooks. Lele remained silent until she was about to set off. She suddenly pulled Liu Wei's neck in a crying voice, "Mom, I'm scared." The family walked downstairs, and the staff wearing protective clothing saw them and shouted, "I'll come and pull people in Yang!"
Liu Wei quickly covered Lele's ears and squatted down to tell her, "You are a human, not a Yang person."
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Because infectious diseases are extremely spreading, the social attributes indicated by their pathology are often associated with people, which in turn stigmatizes patients.
The new coronavirus is highly contagious, which means that everyone may be infected in public spaces. Once infected, some people will be considered as "not wearing masks", "running around" and "loving to play".In early 2020, in Huaian, Jiangsu, three women in their thirties were diagnosed with positive COVID-19. For a while, rumors about them were spreading around the Internet, "infidelity" and "going to Wuhan to meet their lover." After experiencing the online violence, all three of them said in the hospital, "Forget it if you die." After the matter subsided, some of them chose to change their names.
In the multiple rounds of epidemics that broke out across the country after March this year, due to the sharp increase in the number of infected people, the names of infected people on the Internet have also changed. Some people began to jokingly call those who were positive for the new crown as "Xiaoyang people" and "sheep", and even divided them into " ram ", "ewe", "old sheep" by their gender and age. Some people even described the behavior of transporting people to centralized isolation as "catching sheep".
For many COVID-19 patients, it is an infection under unknown reasons and unawareness. The jokes, condemnations and labeling of them are actually a secondary injury superimposed on physical pain.
So far, Wu Jing doesn't know where the source of the infection between her and her husband is, and even the epidemic investigation report on the two has not found any reason, but the couple's lives have been stirred upside down by "positive". Wu Jing dared not tell her parents and friends in her hometown that there is no positive case in her hometown so far. Her parents are old and have a blank understanding of the new coronavirus. She thinks it will be a terminal illness that will kill her. But what she was even more afraid of was that if this incident spreads to hundreds of people, how should relatives and friends view her at that time, and whether she can go home will become a question.
In Chen Feng's later memories, the days in the square cabin had a peaceful happiness. He and his parents were isolated in the cabin. There were many people here, and they were quarrelsome, but they were also lively. The most important thing was, "Everyone is the same, no one will look at you differently." My parents like to chat and met many new friends, and they often disappeared. Once, he heard his father chatting with a security guard and learned that the other party came to the temporary cabin to apply for a short-term security guard. He was healthy before, but later he was infected with the new crown, so he simply kept working in the temporary cabin. Every night, the nurses would organize everyone to dance together, and the audio was placed on the ground, playing square dance music like Chen Feng that young people could not understand. He simply did not participate and just watched it as a pastime.
Liu Wei's family was first placed in an isolation point. This isolation point was previously an undelivered office building with a total of 14 floors. The floor where Liu Wei is located alone accommodates more than 200 single beds, one meter apart from each other, and there are no ventilated windows. The night here is brightly lit, with snoring, spitting and chatting sounds one after another. Lele couldn't sleep, so Liu Wei explained the meaning of the cabin to her in English. She deliberately avoided the word "centralized isolation" and used cabin mobile hospital to explain it. Lele suddenly looked up and said to her, "Then this is our fake home."
The toilet at the isolation point where Liu Wei is located is still clean, but she still can't take a shower. She used a basin to wipe Lele's body. The child said excitedly, "It's like taking a hot spring!" Usually, Lele often plays with children in the isolation point, "If you meet a child today, she will introduce it to me." During the school’s online work meeting, sometimes it is necessary to turn on the camera, and Liu Wei and her husband helped Lele set up a virtual background. They have not told teachers and parents about the diagnosis for the time being, "the children cannot be given unnecessary guidance."
" Barbie Q" "Happy gongs and drums beat out the festive year after year". Amid the music played outside the short video, Lele spent his online mid-term practice week, and the result was very good, "The baby is very happy". Every morning at 8 o'clock, Lele took online classes on time. She sat in a corner of the camp bed. The table was a brown plastic stool with a tablet computer on it. The textbook and hands were placed on another blue plastic stool. In such an environment, Lele read 42 books in 7 days.
On April 18, Lele cried for the first time. She saw someone coming home after the quarantine period. At that time, the family's nucleic acid and antigen had turned negative, but she had not waited for the news of returning home.She didn't understand, "Why don't you let us go home?"
Long-term impact
On April 24, Lele went home, but Liu Wei found that the family's life had changed.
The night when she got home, Lele had a nightmare. She suddenly woke up and hugged Liu Wei and said, "Mom, Shanghai is on fire." The same nightmare lasted for three or four days. Lele's dream changed from "Shanghai is on fire" to "Home is on fire". Liu Wei and her husband carried Lele to the middle, coaxing her again and again, watching her fall asleep.
Liu Wei was anxious and was also inquiring about seeing a child psychologist. She hopes to return to her home in the suburbs as soon as possible. Changing the environment may improve the child's mental state.
Because of isolation, Chen Feng missed his junior college entrance examination in Jiangsu. After returning from the temporary cabin, he had to be quarantined at home for 7 days, and at the examination site he had to be quarantined for another 14 days. "I can't catch up, so I can only give up the exam." In fact, there are many candidates like Chen Feng who are affected by positive COVID-19, and some are almost disqualified from the exam, which may change the fate of a lifetime. After being treated strangely by others, Chen Feng began to reject nucleic acids from the bottom of his heart, especially the nucleic acid points near the company. If you really can't escape, just choose the hottest and sunniest time, as there will be the fewest people. In Shanghai, within 3 months, people with positive COVID-19 infection can only show the staff the green Suishen code as nucleic acid, while the black nucleic acid code used by ordinary people is simply invalid for Chen Feng. This also means that positive patients who have been infected cannot conceal their positive history. Before taking nucleic acid, Chen Feng needs to actively report to the test personnel and wait for the ongoing mixed test to join the team.
This is a very "conspicuous" behavior for Chen Feng. Standing aside and waiting for others to get over the inspection, then picking up his own single tube. He was particularly afraid of being noticed by others, so he often covered the small red label tightly with his hands and handed it to the tester in a careful posture.
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"People's hearts are separated from their belly, you can't judge other people's attitude." Others' eyes are good, but Chen Feng is worried about how his colleagues in the company will view him and whether the company will fire or suspend him. He began to become neurotic, and when he heard his colleagues talking about "positiveness", he became nervous all over. Once, a colleague chatted with him. Chen Feng was distracted and thought the other party was asking him if he had the new crown. He stood up and interrupted his colleague directly, shouted "I don't", leaving behind a confused other party.
The uncertainty created by the epidemic is eliminating people's trust. During this period, the community notified Wu Jing that home nucleic acid will be needed for the next six months, which also means that Wu Jing needs to call to notify the community to make an appointment before each time she takes nucleic acid. When staff come to do nucleic acid, Wu Jing is always the most anxious time period. Dabai, wearing protective clothing, stood at the door of his house, and the neighbors were inevitably looking up and down. Some time ago, a neighbor had already asked Wu Jing, "Why are there always people in your family doing nucleic acid?"
Chen Feng has been frightened for many days. There is one thing he never dared to confirm with his colleague. On the day he quarreled with a middle-aged man, a colleague had witnessed it for a moment. Chen Feng didn't know how much the other party heard, "Standard Cabin" and "Masculine". Whether the other party listened to it again. He still remembered that after returning to the store that day, the store manager asked him tentatively why he had been doing nucleic acid for so long. Later, when he saw Chen Feng didn't want to say it, he had to give up.
He had a vague idea in his heart. Will you have an answer in your heart, just choose to protect him silently. That night, the store manager invited everyone, including Chen Feng, to have a dinner together, and everything was as usual. That day, the police saw that he was so embarrassed, and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Aren't I standing next to you? Look, I'm not afraid of you." But Chen Feng felt that he could never tell others that he was once a positive person, "It's a good thing to meet a good person. As long as I meet someone with malicious intentions, I may not be able to bear it."
For these people who have recovered from the new crown positive, privacy protection has become the top priority. If you don’t pay attention, you will have the risk of being leaked. Wu Jing still remembers that among a group of confirmed patients she was in before, a group member was exposed by a colleague of the company because of her privacy. Her name, ID number, home address, hometown address, and phone number were all published on the Internet. Hundreds of phone calls into his cell phone, and a pervert actually called the phone to his elders, causing the elderly in the family to get seriously ill. Wu Jing discovered that since then, his avatar has changed and turned into black, and there is nothing else.
Now Wu Jing is also worried about her privacy issues. She is looking for a new job and has had several interviews. Fortunately, no one has asked her about the history of COVID-19 infection for the time being, but she still has to be careful and urgent. She also has to think of a good excuse to explain why she has to do nucleic acid at home.
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Liu Wei is also worried about Lele's start of school. A parent who came out of the cabin told her that her child was in the third grade. When taking online classes, the teacher mentioned the concept of the cabin, "It is a place where positive patients are centrally isolated." She could not imagine what would happen if Lele heard similar words. Recently, Lele's school began to count the COVID-19 vaccination status of students. Because it was once positive, Liu Wei did not intend to let Lele get the COVID-19 vaccine . Liu Wei once imagined how the child should answer if the teacher asked why the child had not received the COVID-19 vaccine.
"How to do not deceive the child and achieve self-protection, it is really difficult." In the past two days, Lele went to the dentistry and the hospital needed to fill in the information about the history of the new coronavirus. Liu Wei only filled in the column she had diagnosed two months ago. She was deliberately empty in Lele's column. After all, she could not guarantee that if the other party knew about it, her child would be called and treated.
Only children will not worry so much. On the day of quarrel with the neighborhood committee, Liu Wei talked to herself angrily at home, and once wanted to write "Everyone should be respected" on the notice board at the door of the neighborhood committee. The daughter walked up to her, grabbed her hand and said, "Mom, don't quarrel with others, give others some face."
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