Puxi has been sealed for 21 days since April 1, and although I don't know which day it will be unsealed, I firmly believe that that day is not far away. In particular, record the trivialities and daily routines of these home isolations, for yourself, but also for yourself and for the city you love deeply.
April 1
The days of home isolation have officially begun.
TOEFL lives in Puxi, and with 4 days of abundant purchasing time, the family's dishes are prepared. Even her husband, who barely bought vegetables, came back from grabbing a bunch of dishes.
The day before the sealing, we received a large gift package from friendly people, including: steak, beef brisket, pork belly, pork chops, a large plate of eggs, a number of fresh vegetables, a bag of 10 pounds of rice, a bucket of oil, and a carton of milk.
Such a wealth of supplies is enough for our family of four to eat for a week.
Coupled with a carton of milk, a bag of rice, a bucket of oil and pork, beef, chicken wings, etc., there is no problem in eating for half a month.
The home coffee stock is also sufficient: hand-brewed coffee powder, ear hanging, substitute brewing, freeze-dried. Enough to drink for a month.
Tissues, napkins, garbage bags, dish soap, laundry detergent, and disinfectant are all ready.
Previously, the things in the surrounding convenience stores and supermarkets were basically robbed.
Prices have begun to take off. A lettuce sold for 15 yuan, an egg sold for 2 yuan, tomatoes sold for 12 yuan a catty...
I appeared at the gate of the community again because I received a coffee courier from someone else.
It is said that the Mandarin duck pot sealing law was opened in the early morning, in fact, the merchants at the entrance of our community all put on the seal before 4 p.m.
With the pride of the finalists (the community had been all over the place before), I confidently started my isolation life.
While listening to my brother's concert and writing articles in his memory, the busy and fulfilling first day passed.
April 2
Life was normal, after all, we basically didn't go out much for a long time before the closure.
Made myself a pot of tea and cut some fruit. Sit on the balcony and soak up the sun and pretend to be on vacation.
Nestled in a butterfly chair, I brushed my phone with obsessive compulsive disorder, and negative news came from all directions.
The most tragic thing is that the people of Pudong thought that the 4-day closure could usher in the unsealing, but they did not expect that what awaited them would be countless 4 days, 14 days...
In fact, before the "Mandarin Duck Sealing" pioneered by the magic capital, many areas in Shanghai have done "accurate sealing" for several days or even ten days.
The current policy is equivalent to the previous sins being completely suffered in vain.
The point is that many neighborhood committees in Pudong only give a short purchase time, resulting in a large number of residents flocking to supermarkets to grab shopping funds. But there are still quite a few people who are underprepared.
Hear a funny and poignant story —
The couple in the fruit shop opposite the community has a son who dropped out of school at a very young age, and when he was less than 18 years old, he opened his own fruit shop and married and had children.
This time, the father and son received a single order to deliver something to Pudong.
According to the official announcement, Pudong will be unsealed at 5 a.m., while Puxi will begin to be sealed at 3 a.m. There is a 2-hour time difference between the two, and this sealing policy has been jokingly called the shortest lockdown time in history - 2 hours.
They calculated that as long as they drove back to Puxi from Pudong in ten or twenty minutes in advance, 1,000 yuan would be properly bagged.
Who knows that people are not as good as the heavens, and Puxi's sealing control is advanced.
When the father and son drove from Pudong to Puxi, they found that all the intersections were blocked. The two had to turn back to Pudong.
I don't know where they ended up in Pudong.
Anyway, in April, when the wild group was raging, their family was absent...
Another funny story is my colleague.
She went to a friend's house in Pudong to play, and then she couldn't come back...
She started as a snail girl, and in her spare time, she studied food, using various ingredients purchased by the group to make steamed dumplings, buns, mashed potatoes, beef cakes, fries...
By the way, she also couriered a box of clothes from her home in Puxi to Pudong, which is very prescient.