In just three days, our editorial department with dozens of characters every day has reached one-third.
Since December, many places have successively adjusted their epidemic prevention policies, and have been fighting the epidemic for three years, and now they have entered a new stage. Since last Wednesday, the way colleagues say hello every day has become: "Are you Yang today?" "Yang." "No Yang yet, it's probably soon." In addition to choosing topics, the discussion in the group also adds topics such as what are the symptoms, how to buy vegetables, and where to buy medicine today.
For a public account established in 2016, Daily Characters have been around for more than six years. In the past six years, we have released more than 2,000 original content at the rate of updating one article every day. But never once, like today, in a short period of time, a large number of colleagues (including editors, authors, operations, picture editing, business, etc.) have experienced symptoms such as high fever, cough, and pain, which has caused challenges to the normal operation of the editorial department.
Our values when we were initially established were "people who are worth recording in time", and in this special time segment, we decided to focus our attention on our editorial department. Yes, in the big era, everyone will be witnesses, and as a small social unit, the editorial department may also face what it encounters after suffering the impact of the epidemic, or what many companies, communities, and families are facing or are about to face. I hope it can give people a reference.
and we will eventually spend this winter together.
article | EFAN HING
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All kinds of pain
In the editorial office, if the immune ability is ranked, the person in charge Mai Manghan always feels that he is standing at the "top of the food chain".
She is in her early 40s and is a very friendly person. She is always keen to share the experiences she has experienced. For example, she has been fighting the epidemic for three years. She lives in Fengtai, Beijing. She often lamented that she has never encountered pop-ups or quarantine. Even the last outbreak of influenza A, she was one of the few "survivors" in the office.
And just in the policy, she finally ushered in the day of relaxation, on Tuesday, December 6, she sighed to us in the office: "I really want to get new crown soon."
A day later, she was really arrogant.
She said, "My immunity myth has been shattered." She didn't know where she was hit.
On Thursday, we all saw her Moments:
" Yesterday morning, Xiao W (note: her son) had an illness at the same time. His fever reached 38.5 degrees, Xiao W took Tylenol, and I took ibuprofen . The most obvious feeling was that the whole body was hurt. It was like the soreness of the muscles curled up after strenuous exercise. It was like being beaten up, and his whole body was covered with internal injuries, and it was one after another. When it hurts the most, it was sore. Cold sweat. Headache, the kind of pain that is about to explode.
others are fine, the throat doesn't hurt, and the taste is not lost. I tested antigen this morning, and quickly stumbled. I feel that the new crown is the most uncomfortable time for me to catch a cold. There is a feeling of being violent and knocking you down directly. Xiao W is better, but he has a fever, and when the fever fades away, he will be full of energy."
▲ On December 8, after the policy adjustment, there were more people in the subway. Photo / Photo by E Fund Xing
In fact, before December, the symptoms of the new crown were unfamiliar to most of us. As one of the earliest people in the office, Mai Manghan talked about a special part of the symptoms after the infection - pain.In my next chat with my colleagues who were Yang Li, I repeatedly felt that in addition to the common fever and high fever, the presence of "pain" was the most significant among all the symptoms.
Moreover, although they are infected with the new crown, everyone's pain is diverse.
Author Huang Diandian, born in the 1990s, loves to laugh. But after she was on Thursday, only "Ouch" was left in the first two days. The part that hurts her is the calf bone.
"Some people say it's muscle pain, I'm in my bones, I always have an illusion, is there a lesions in my calf bones? That kind of pain makes my feet unable to maintain a posture." After the sun became angry, drinking more water caused her to go to the bathroom frequently also made her very painful. "It's hard for me to get out of bed every time. My legs are moved step by step, and I don't have the strength."
About five meters from her bedroom door to the bathroom, and for the first time she felt it was very far away.
And the place where the operation is painful rarely appears on the eyes. On weekdays, she is a girl with bright eyes. This time after the sunlight, she burned to about 39 degrees. "The eyes are hot and I feel like I am blind."
Because there is no fever-reducing patch, she found cotton , folded it in half, dipped it in water and applied it on her forehead and eyes, and it immediately felt much more comfortable. But after applying it for a while, the temperature will rise and you have to dip it again. The pain left her sleeping for an hour or two at night.
and the friends in the business department were also "imperfected". The four of them had an afternoon meeting on Tuesday, and then they were all sunny.
Jintang is the general manager of the daily characters. She is a positive-looking school who practices it. This time, she was also knocked down by the pain caused by the new crown. The symptoms appeared on Thursday, "I covered myself with a thick quilt, and my muscles hurt. I knew, it's me."
By the early morning of Friday, when she was in the most painful time, she directly had a fever of 40 degrees. "I was awakened by the sound of my upper and lower teeth fighting." At that time, she didn't even have the strength to get up to drink water and take medicine. The pain was like "the soreness of my aunt's waist soaked all over her body, and her whole body was covered with her waist."
▲ Jin Tang describes severe throat pain.
And the little flower in the same department as her also suffered a lot of pain. She heard a rumor that "the new crown will attack the weakest part of a person", so her worst-exercising legs began to hurt. At the same time, her upper body was hot and her lower body was painful, and her whole body was "like in the alchemy furnace of Taishang Laojun."
At that moment, she thought of Ziwei who was being tortured.
Of course, some colleagues also had very mild symptoms, almost as if they were not infected. Some colleagues are at the peak of symptoms and have no strength to chat with me. For example, Ah Hao, I can only type and ask him about his feelings. He typed four words and answered:
"I'm going to be familiar."
▲ "I'm going to be mature."
Connect and support
But in the face of pain and fever, in the face of the new crown, everyone is not fighting alone.
We often emphasize that each person is an independent individual, but we often ignore one thing: social attributes are the basic attributes of human beings. Since the development of human society, it has never been a single human being who overcomes plagues, disasters, and wars, but rely on the connection and support between people.
When Huang Diandian was in pain in his calf, he saw a statement: "Some people say that the new coronavirus is particularly kind and righteous, because a family of five will be infected, and one will be fine. Then cook for everyone."
Of course, this is a self-deprecating word after Yanglu, but she herself has indeed felt the "benevolence and righteousness" of the new coronavirus.
She lives with her boyfriend.When she had a high fever, her boyfriend seemed to have nothing to do. She wore a mask to take care of her, cooked and brought her water, and then physically cooled down when she had a high fever. "I was shocked. He kept taking care of me. I was wondering why he wasn't infected yet. I even asked him, 'Are you an iron man?'" When
burned the highest, she reached 39.5 degrees. Although there was popular science before, she was still a little panicked when the fever was so high. Her boyfriend discussed with her that if the fever exceeded 40 degrees and did not subside, she would prepare to go to the hospital.
At that time, she took ibuprofen to try to reduce fever and relieve pain, but she still felt pain after taking it. Finally, she shouted in her heart: "Ibuprofen, have you not found the place where I feel pain?"
Fortunately, the fever subsided. However, once her fever subsided, it was her boyfriend's turn to have a fever. It was her boyfriend who took care of her before, but now it was her turn to start taking care of her boyfriend.
This time, she also deeply felt the importance of human connection. Before this wave of epidemic came, she actually bought antigens, antipyretics and other things for her family in her hometown in Chongqing. She even bought an blood oxygen meter for her grandparents and . But she didn't prepare these for herself.
And when it was sunny these days, she wanted to measure antigen and body temperature, but at this time the thermometer could no longer be bought. At this time, it was her colleague Ahao's family who supported her thermometer.
▲ Huang Diandian Prepared Medicine. Photo / Respondent provided
Maimanghan's family also had similar experiences. On the day she posted on WeChat Moments, we asked about her condition. She and her son had a fever, and her son started to cry. At that time, her husband was also responsible for cooking and taking care of her. Later, her and her son's symptoms were relieved and her husband fell ill.
And not only that, after the diagnosis of the new crown, some interpersonal networks that may have been silent before will also surface.
Mai Manghan received a lot of greetings from relatives in her hometown. Her hometown is in Shandong, where the epidemic has not spread like the editorial department. "My uncles, aunts, cousins, etc. all came to ask about my situation. Even some friends and relatives who have not been in contact for many years also came to ask me because in their opinion, this is a big deal, and I don't want them to be afraid of the new crown, so it is not scary to take this opportunity to popularize the new crown to them."
And what if there is no one to take care of you after the sun is over?
As a girl who drifts from Beijing, Yuemi lives in a room alone. She has two cats named Tom and Mimi. When she was burning the most, she didn't even have the strength to change the water and food for the cat. When I had the strength, I saw that the two cats were empty. "I felt very guilty at that time, and I didn't take good care of them."
Two cats gave her a lot of comfort when she had a fever in the room. "I have been lying in the bed, and I don't know if they feel I'm sick, but they sleep next to me. The cat's body temperature is very high. When I get very high, I touch them, as if I don't have as high fever as myself."
▲ When I have a fever, the kitten will accompany me. Photo / Respondent provided
Changes and things that cannot be changed
After being infected with the new crown, one thing that colleagues in the editorial department inevitably have to face is to decide how to place their work.
In a sense, when a person's body is suffering, no matter how much the person loves work, it is difficult for him to spend extra energy on his work. Even if the workaholic is like Mai Manghan. She didn't post a word in the editor's group throughout Wednesday, which seems to me unheard of. In the past, she was the first person to come to the office almost every day, and was definitely one of the most talkative people in the group.
But on Wednesday, Mai Manghan admitted that he really couldn't work. "All day, you don't have even a very comfortable moment, including at night. The sleep time recorded by my watch is only one or two hours."
Finally, the work was interrupted for two days and restarted on Friday. She became more and more active in arranging topics in the group.
▲ empty editorial department. Photo / Photo by E Fund Xing
There are also people who are on the way to work. For example, Huang Diandian, on Thursday, she had a topic that she had to go to a large shopping mall, and it was difficult to find a person to talk to. That day, she ran up and down the mall and finally found someone who was willing to talk to. As a result, she became optimistic after she came back.
The day when the symptoms were the most serious, she "didn't dare to look at her phone because she didn't have the strength to do it", but she still took a look. It was sent by the person in the mall and asked her, "When can I talk?"
"I was afraid that I would not have the strength to add friends and the application expired, so I struggled to pass his friend. Then I was afraid that because I ignored him for too long, he felt that I did not respect him, which led to refusing to chat with me, so I sent him an explanation message, and I said I was very sorry that I was optimistic."
This at least shows that at the realistic level, it is difficult to separate the new crown and work.
▲ CBD in fog. Photo / Photo by E Fund Xing
Some people may think that being infected with the new coronavirus is also a rare opportunity to rest from another perspective. For example, recently, a foreign video about the "new crown holiday" circulated on the Internet, saying that getting the new crown means you have received a seven-day paid vacation, which is a thing worth having fun.
But in fact, this "happiness" is difficult to establish.
For example, on the day when it burned to nearly 40 degrees, that is, on Thursday afternoon, Jin Tang from the business department was still setting up work. The key is to catch up with the work, and she has to arrange it. And several of her colleagues were also burning. She had no choice but to call a phone call, and then arranged another job between "half-sleeping and half-awake" on Friday. "The strength and logic are gone, we can only type. Maybe we have some tacit understanding. We listen to each other half and miss each other, and we still know what to do."
. According to the speed of the new coronavirus infection, although from now on, only one-third of the positive ones are positive, more colleagues will be infected soon.
"Maybe people in the company will have more positive results in the near future. If there is more positive results, it will definitely have an impact on work, but you also know that this thing will definitely not be avoided. Sooner or later we will face such a battle." Mai Manghan feels that it is best to have batches of positive results. After this month, everyone should have positive results, and then they will return to normal. She has planned to go out for a trip on New Year's Day.
But there are some things that cannot be restored as usual. "After these three years, people have known the importance of a sense of security. In the past few years, we have been moving upward. If one day we find that life will also take a sharp turn, then there will be a big change in our views on the future, consumption, emotions, and the world."
We happen to be at the turning point of an era. Specifically in the editorial department, the colleagues who were Yangli last Wednesday and Thursday are now in the process of recovery, and new colleagues of Yangli are also emerging one after another. Just like before. But one thing is very important. No matter what kind of pain and high fever I experienced before, these colleagues have had a deeper understanding of the three years we experienced in fighting the epidemic.
And even in the most painful times, life will have some surprises. This is like these days, when Yue Mi has a high fever, she can't sleep at night. She was alone and simply ran to the balcony to cool down with the night wind. She said that there are always some relatively special communities in Beijing that face south and north, and she rents such a bedroom that faces south and north. The advantage of facing north is that you can see the moon on the balcony in winter.
She found that the moon on winter nights is so beautiful.
▲ The moon on the rooftop. Photo / Respondents provide
(some of the respondents in the article are pseudonyms)
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