Text/Season Editor/Huang Fang
【Editor's Note】
Some people say that after the epidemic, a movie should be made called "Shanghai Regiment Leader". Although it is a paragraph, it also tells the voice of most Shanghai citizens at this time.
During the special period, materials are tight, and large and small community group purchases support people's three meals a day. Whose mobile phone has not yet set up a few group buying groups, and has not stuck to a few "group leaders"?
On the eve of Puxi sealing, the author of this article joined a group buying group of 400 people, and in just over ten days, she added a variety of community group buying like a marquee - just like the small social field scene, she felt a kind of "vitality that can be tossed", and the kindness and decency of everyone helping each other in difficult times.
"In a large group of more than 400 people,
It was like another world."
Joining the community group buying group was on March 29th.
At that time, Puxi was not yet sealed, and I was still going to get up the next morning to grab vegetables in the box, and by the way, I dried and kept the vegetables I had bought. At that time, the dishes in the supermarket had long been snapped up, and it was lucky, before this round of sealing, I bought spinach, chicken feathers, eggs, and chicken wings in a vegetable market near the community.
Because I was going to be notified to do nucleic acid testing, I joined the group of our building, and it was in this group that I first learned about the "group buying" of the community. Some owners want to initiate a group purchase of vegetables, 80 yuan of set meals, there are celery, lettuce, Chinese cabbage, onions, oil wheat vegetables, cucumbers, has been a lot of people at that time red dishes, because 100 copies can not be made up, someone proposed, the link "throw to the community that group buy group to ask."
In this way, after finding the QR code, I entered this large group of more than 400 people, as if entering another world.
The first picture of the group is of an owner drying a freezer filled with ice cream. Open the group announcement, there are already some group purchases in the interception of the group, including salmon, Arctic shellfish, eel, and Shanghai refueling special edition cheesecake. The head of the group is shouting in the group to buy a dim sum, which is a new Internet celebrity shop in Shanghai.
"Do you want to go on a wave?" "How about not walking?" The regimental commander worked hard and sent several seductive pictures.
This had some impact on me, who was only thinking about buying vegetables at that time.
On March 29, 2022, volunteers delivered daily necessities to an isolated citizen in Shanghai. Surging Image Infographic
The sheer volume of group chat quickly overwhelmed me and dazzled me. The community is more than 1,500 households that I rented last year, and I can say that I know nothing about the other residents in this community. At that time, the epidemic was not so serious, after the group purchase, they would chat in the group, I knew that there was a Nanhui store selling egg spring shoots and beans opposite the community, very expensive, there was a delicious pot rice at the entrance of the community, there was a hidden menu, and there was a Southeast Asian restaurant, and the boss would nag and spit on his son. On weekdays, I commute between work and home, indulge in work, and often use takeaways to cope with dinner, which is all new knowledge about the neighborhood for me. The society is afraid of me, silently collecting in the group.
To buy a group, the rule in the group is that the owner of the group and the supplier negotiate the price and quantity, and after reporting with the group owner, the group is unified, and after the number is reached, the group is formed, and all the members of the group pay.
When I was immersed in the group chat and did not react, someone quickly sent a link, it was another vegetable set, 69 yuan & 89 yuan. "Let's start a 15-part regiment first", "Take a dragon directly", "Everyone volunteers". "I'll come", immediately the owner initiated the group solitaire. Given that I still didn't have enough vegetables to eat for a few days, I became the 12th person to write about the building and the door in a state of excitement and panic.
But the excitement soon fell short. "Comrades place an order to prompt insufficient inventory, don't worry, I read the comments have irregular replenishment," said the owner of the group. My first group purchase was just so late. Until a few hours later, there are still owners who do not know the situation and continue to solitaire.
"I'm holding an egg,
It's like holding a kid who can stumble at any moment."
After Puxi sealed on April 1, the dishes in the refrigerator became smaller and smaller.
This group buying group was once forgotten by me, at that time I put all my hopes on the food grabbing software, six o'clock can grab the US group to buy vegetables and dingdong, eight thirty dingdong and box horse. Wake up in a groggy day, brush the phone for ten minutes, "congestion ahead", "insufficient capacity", and later tried the daily fresh, RT-Mart, but none of them grabbed. I am also Buddhist, grabbing vegetables is mostly focused on participation, rice is still there, can always eat. The community has also sent supplies several times, although there are not many things, the first time there are two corn, one lettuce; the second time a cucumber, a carrot, an onion, a potato, and a half ginger. Later, Dingdong, Hema and Meituan stopped at our nearby stops.
A once-in-a-kind supply from the community.
However, with the original thought that No. 5 would be unsealed but not unsealed, the anxiety increased day by day.
During this period, the community sent supplies with several bananas, a bag of biscuits, three sausages, in order to reduce contact, every household hung a bag at the door, on which was written a piece of paper: Thank you volunteers (love).
Bag hanging on the door.
The regiment of the group leader in the group buying group also basically stopped during this period. On the 5th, the leader of the group issued a group announcement: the group was not in the group for two days, it was too chaotic, and it could not be taken by itself, and it would trouble the volunteers. Please rational group purchase!
She was worried about security risks, as well as the chaos of management, and some people in the group threw all kinds of groups and links into the group chat, but they didn't know who the leader of the group was, "If you don't report it, you will lose the group, and all of them will be kicked." ”
What else can I grab?
Until the 6th, the leader of the building group sent a nearby supermarket group purchase in the building group, the neighborhood committee docked, built a group, I immediately came to the spirit, "please pull into the group, thank you", many owners also seem to see hope, have lined up a long line to enter the group.
The head of the group purchase in the south district of the community pulled me into the group, looked at her group nickname, and I realized that she was my neighbor to the door, and her head was like a big bear holding the hand of a small bear.
During the pandemic, most of us opened the door at the same time when we needed to go downstairs for nucleic acid testing, and she was a middle-aged woman with glasses. When the community was distributing dishes, we divided the dishes, and the neighbors once said, if you have any needs, we have more here, you can ask us. At that time, I felt warm in my heart, and it turned out that she had been volunteering.
The supermarket group purchase has four sets, namely vegetables, meat and eggs, I quickly bought 30 eggs, 41 yuan / board, did not compare the price at all. This became the best consolation that I didn't grab the dish that day. The group purchase is quite orderly, the person in charge will pick up the goods at the door, pull it to each building, notify the residents in the procurement group to come down and get things, and the person in charge will check it one by one.
2 days later, because I didn't see the notice of the group buying group going downstairs to pick up the goods, the neighbor knocked directly on the door, and she helped me take it. I sprayed disinfection with alcohol and carefully carried my eggs to the refrigerator, like holding a child who would stumble at any moment.
Eggs that I bought in the group.
"Barter begins"
Everyone was very enthusiastic about this "official" group purchase, and they hoped to continue to open the group the next day.
But there is a new problem, I saw neighbors in the group message: because the order volume of the community exceeded the limit of the supermarket yesterday, the surge in order volume has also caused a serious impact on the epidemic prevention and control work in the community. Group purchases are changed to once every 2 days.
She added: "Because of the long period of community closure, we have encountered various difficulties in life, and our emotions are very depressed, but we still sincerely advocate to everyone to hold the last few days, minimize other takeaways and group purchases, and enjoy the spring blossoms outside the house as soon as possible." ”
My room was quiet, and across the door I could always hear her busy as if she were discussing something.
After the neighbors finished speaking, some people said in the group that the purchasing power of the residents of our community was too strong. The other man replied, no, just to be alive.
During that period, when materials were gradually consumed and in short supply, in the group buying group, some owners began to queue up for rice, noodles, onions, ginger and garlic, hoping to open a new group of staple foods, but there was no sound for a long time.
People also began to barter in the group, seasoning is the bottom is relatively fast, everyone change some cooking wine, salt, soy sauce, will be in the group tacit understanding of a sound, try to exchange in the building, no contact, put in the neighbor's door.
A more significant problem is the dietary security of the elderly who do not use mobile phone group purchases. In the building group, an old man sent a long text, and the words were helpless:
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When will it be? I thought that the three- or five-day closure had become a protracted war, and the long-term preparations for the materials, sitting and eating vegetables empty, and had frequently exhausted the desperate situation of food, and the community group buying also had the ability to pick vegetables, and specially asked the neighborhood committee to contact more group purchase points, so that the elderly could also buy vegetables... To the director of Lou Niu, who has worked hard | in the process of epidemic prevention, the volunteers thank you! Lucky! (Probably because the old man is handwriting, leaving some typos)
Fortunately, the old man quickly sent a message, the two neighbors next to him had sent food, also helped him join the group purchase, and did not know who, hung a bag of vegetables on his door. "Thank you good neighbors," he said.
Another good news is that the neighborhood committee docked the meat purchased by the group, some residents complained in the group, bought a small steak, got the soup bone, and another resident then complained, there is meat to eat is already very good, in case there is nothing.
However, these limited number of group purchases still cannot meet the needs of residents.
On the 8th, it is a shaky moment about the fate of group buying, in the building group, the staff of the neighborhood committee issued a group announcement - there are positive cases in the community, and the data of Shanghai believes that "the risk of community prevention and control is that express delivery and group shopping products are always dangerous links."
Group buying is no longer encouraged to open up, and the group members need to bear the legal responsibility related to the risk of the epidemic, "if there is a real lack of individual items, advocate priority in the exchange of support in this building and the community." At the same time, it is recommended that everyone buy daily necessities and suspend the purchase of improved side foods.
Perhaps the biggest problem is that "due to the large size of the community, the neighborhood committee and volunteers are currently overloaded, and the distribution guarantee and killing capacity have reached their limits." ”
At the bottom, no one said anything. On that day, each household had to do antigen testing, and residents sent pictures of antigen detection reagents in an orderly manner as usual.
On the evening of April 5, 2022, at the gate of a sealed community in The street of North Sichuan Road in Shanghai, community workers and community volunteers delivered dishes to the doorstep of residents overnight. The Surging News Gao Jianping Infographic
"Waited for a lonely morning"
But there are some emotions that have been brewing for a long time.
A resident said that compared with other communities on the street, we only have biscuits and sausages in the package, and other communities have at least oranges, lunch meat, and rice dumplings. Many people followed suit, posting a comparison map of the materials in various communities, expressing dissatisfaction.
These parts that were tolerable in the early days of the pandemic are no longer taken for granted at this time. After all, the future supply of supplies seems to be far away, and everyone is facing the possibility of running out of food. The group was quickly divided into two voices (although the two voices did not contradict each other), one emphasizing understanding of the neighborhood committee, and the other asking the neighborhood committee to provide a statement, and calling the street and complaining on the government message board.
"Don't ask for much, but ask for fairness," many people say.
In the process, I also collected an emoji that was holding a broken bowl in one hand, as if begging, and it said "Ok okay."
In the group buying group, the leader of the group also said: "We can only rely on ourselves, one size fits all, and it is impossible not to form a group." Group purchases have been reported to the neighborhood committee. ”
At the same time, the supermarket group purchase docked by the neighborhood committee, egg noodles, flour and rice were gone in seconds, and there were many residents like me who did not grab it in the group, "Waiting for a lonely morning." ”
This day is the peak of my anxiety since the epidemic, I don't know when to unseal, the rest of the food can be eaten for a few days. From time to time, I read messages in various groups, afraid of missing out on what to buy. Some other group purchase links sent by friends, I was hesitant to compare with many parties before, and this time I resolutely bought some. Seeing the slogan of the success of the small program of the fast group: "Boss, the group has succeeded, looking forward to receiving the goods as soon as possible~" It seems that these foods will soon be thrown into the arms of my refrigerator.
The page after the success of the group.
In the mud, I don't know if the group purchase has recovered. I entered a community bread group, there are already 37 people in solitaire, I don't even know what kind of bread, regardless of it, first pick up and then say! There are constantly people entering the group and solitaire, and the atmosphere is warm. The regimental commander immediately found the person in charge and made a table of statistics. The three districts add up to 200-300 servings.
As a result, by 6 p.m., the regimental commander said that comrades, our group purchase may not be successful, "force majeure factor." ”
Another bread bun in the community also failed, seemingly because the manufacturer of the toast supply chain had a sudden problem, and the head of the group refunded. I also entered a special community milk group buying group, and the result has been solitaire to the 80th, full of groups. I was like following a noisy crowd, huddled to a place I didn't know where to join in the fun, and I was used to the loss after the bustle.
Everything did not ease until the early hours of Friday morning, JD.com resumed supply and logistics, the head of the group sent the link to the group, and people had hope again. I placed several orders in Jingdong, water, meat, eggs, milk, and the panic of the past few days was finally able to land temporarily.
"It's a life force that can be tossed."
Then open the group buying group, and found that the leader of the group said a lot of words in the group, including the resentment that was too late to say and the problems that had not yet been solved:
“
I can pay anything in advance, I'm afraid that no one will send the goods when the time comes. (Last time) there was no docking person, milk was placed at the door. No one killed either.
That's what we're going to solve is this 100 meters. I don't know how the volunteers are arranged. Because (volunteers) also have to (co-ordinate) nucleic acids, if you have to do your own (docking and delivery to your door), it's too scary.
Each time the group is not troublesome, the order finishes the most eyeballs fall down.
She also mentioned that deliveries require a 48-hour nucleic acid test certificate from the driver, as well as a pass.
Late at night on the 10th, more than midnight, she was still thinking about opening a collection list of hema and RT-Mart in the group, and gathering more volunteers in the community. On weekdays, she often stares at the situation of positive cases in the community, reminding everyone to protect to ensure the safety of the group's shopping funds.
I think that she has made a lot of efforts that we usually can't see.
Clicking on the head of the regimental commander, the video number is full of pictures of family members, and I realized that she is the mother of a lovely daughter, and her signature reads, "Friends have many channels."
In the past few days, I always think of March 29, before the closure, some owners spoke in the group buying group: "Can this group not be dissolved after the epidemic?" Feel that you can buy a lot of good food, thief convenient. The sharing of resources is particularly good. ”
Others say, "It's so cozy here, it's too stupid to be emo." ”
When not buying in groups, some people will share recipes in the group, for example, blanch the sweet potato leaves in water, mix soy sauce and sesame oil with delicious mix; some people borrow karaoke in the group, hold it at home, and want to sing. There are men who love to cook in the group, mothers who have children in online classes, and the leader of the group will bubble up from time to time: Why is it so quiet today, and what did everyone eat for dinner?
I also like this group buying group, often soaking in it for a while and brushing up on messages. The night before the sealing, everyone was still chatting vigorously, and for the first time I knew that there were weasels that turned over the garbage cans in the community, very sweet mulberries, and osmanthus trees that had been fragrant for a long time. "It's really a foodie group," one resident said.
I think back to the enthusiasm of the owners when they first entered the group to buy salmon and cakes, and now I miss it. It is a kind of life force that can be tossed, and it is in a period of normal operation, the vitality of desire and consumption.
Later, even when the materials were difficult, some residents read it, and did not dare to buy milk or water, for fear that the volunteers would carry too much weight. Such kindness and decency really hope to be cherished, protected, and continue.
Source: The Paper