Editor’s Note: The article “Shanghai People’s Patience Has Reached the Limit” published on China’s WeChat official account “Mrs. Maya” was once deleted on the WeChat platform, with more than 20 million views before and following the deletion, making it known as the most-read WeChat official account in history. article. The original text has now been restored, and the reason is unknown.
Today’s Shanghainese go to bed anxiously following checking the refrigerator every night. After grabbing the dishes every morning, they open up the information released by Shanghai in an uneasy manner, and then start a day of nucleic acid, antigens, group purchases, scolding mothers, and asking for help.
I don’t know why, but every day there are events that refresh the bottom line.
A native Shanghai resident, the father of a 5-year-old child, and a cancer patient who was in stable condition following receiving treatment, went to the hospital suddenly feeling unwell on April 3, and was asked to immediately carry out the investigation under the condition of the nucleic acid report made by the community the day before. Only the nucleic acid report from the hospital can be admitted, and he will die while waiting. His last words before his death were “Mom, go and ask the doctor, has my nucleic acid report come out?” Two hours following he left, the nucleic acid report came out and was negative.
It is reported on the Internet that a cadre of a district health and health committee, a doctor graduated, smart and professional, hanged himself in the office under great pressure.
A 14-day-old baby was asked to be separated from the positive father and mother and sent to the Jinshan ward alone. The child’s grandmother tried to jump on the window sill to force her to be with the baby. The mother dragged her weak body and sent a message for help. , just ask the mother to be isolated from the baby and let the baby eat a mouthful of breast milk. This comes following the press conference that “positive parents can quarantine with their children”.
Many primary and secondary schools adjacent to residential areas suddenly turned into square cabins, residents protested, teachers and students were stunned, many teachers’ books are still in the school, students’ personal belongings are stored in the class, and some boarding schools even have students living there. Can we still start this semester? The high school entrance examination is coming soon, what is the future of the graduating class?
There was a heavy storm in Shanghai today, and the roofs of the Nanhui shelters and Gaoqiao shelters that were completed in a hurry were all leaking! The residences where the positive patients are located have suffered from the tragic conditions of wet bedding and drenching of people. What’s more, some toilets that are already unbearable in the cabin have been exposed to multiple pressures such as rainstorms, power outages, water outages, and explosions. Cross flow, no one repaired. This is a square cabin! Since people are arrested for “treatment”, they have to be treated like patients, so why should people have no dignity?
Call the hotline and find the neighborhood committee, and the standard answer you encounter is always “already reported” and “waiting for the notification above.” The informants made a help file themselves and we’re here to help you. Shanghai Anti-epidemic Mutual Aid (helpothers.cn), which includes help from all parties, helps each other by oneself, and opens the document in emergencies that can no longer wait, but if a leader sees this document in person, he will not be embarrassed to say those empty talk.
An old gentleman who lived on Yongkang Road for most of his life and a staff member of the neighborhood committee asked, “Why is Shanghai like this?” The answer was “I can’t do anything,” with a sigh of grief and indignation.
Yeah, why is it like this? Why do we fully cooperate with the government’s requirements, if we say we stop work, we will stop work, if we say we stay at home, we will stay at home. Add 7 to 7, clench your teeth when you say we will overcome the difficulties together, lose your job, shut down the company when you shut down, and fight once morest the epidemic first, if you say you are holding back (hold back), you are holding back. What’s the result?
After staying at home for half a month or a month, the number of positive cases in the community increased one by one, and the community that did not have positive positives also appeared positive during the month-long strict lockdown. There is no hope of unblocking the closed area, and new control areas are constantly being released. The so-called prevention area can only go out for one hour a day, and one person cannot go too far.
Under the circumstance that Shanghai citizens are serious, strict, and persist in cooperating in the fight once morest the epidemic despite all their needs, the daily figures are still more than 20,000 and 20,000.
All specialist doctors rushed out to do the never-ending nucleic acid test, most of the medical system was shut down, all patients outside the new crown were struggling to survive, unable to see a doctor, unable to operate, unable to dispense medicine, have to wait in line, go out the order not to open, blood I can’t get through the rounds, and I can’t do chemotherapy. All the patients have sacrificed their lives to make way for Omicron, who has only one severe case in 150,000 miles. From Nurse Zhou at Dongfang Hospital to the elderly who ignored the deceased, to today, this patient is waiting for nucleic acid. The emergency patients who passed away in the report, as well as the economist’s elderly mother, and the patients who might not be prescribed antidepressants, died without getting a word, and they became a speck of dust in the overall situation.
It is believed that the citizens who bought food for four days following the government banned them for four days have already fallen into a food shortage crisis.
There is a serious shortage of transportation capacity. In my area, several grocery shopping apps have been out of service, and I have no qualifications to grab food. I can only rely on group purchases initiated by enthusiastic residents in the community. It is limited to the most basic rice, noodles, oil and vegetables. More living needs cannot be resolved.
Even group purchases, which are just necessary to maintain life, are facing many restrictions. “In order to reduce the risk of virus transmission from foreign objects” and “reduce the burden on volunteers”, many community properties and neighborhood committees require group purchases to be approved. What to buy and not to buy, for example: you can buy the group buying of the neighborhood committee, but you cannot buy the group buying initiated by yourself; you can buy the vegetables of the guarantee unit, but you cannot buy the vegetables of the private boss; you can buy the vegetables and noodles, but you cannot buy coffee and fruit “non-necessities”, etc. etc. regulations. But what are the necessities of life? Who defines the category of what can be bought or not? With layer-by-layer approval, how much room is there for power to rent?
After being the head of the group a few times, you will feel that you have regressed from the Internet era to the era of supply and marketing cooperatives. No matter how big your temper is, and the quality of the dishes is not satisfactory, you can’t have any opinions. As long as you can get the goods, you have to be grateful, and the price will naturally skyrocket.
The only way to shop is terrifying and extremely uncomfortable. Even more frightening is that in the short term, there seems to be no other way to shop. Jingdong Meituan, which made a high-profile appearance at the government press conference and promised to protect people’s livelihood, has become a scumbag who can never deliver goods.
If you take a closer look, the surrounding areas such as Suzhou, Kunshan and other places are all stationary and the high-speed is blocked every day. Who will ship it to you? What is the use of Shanghai’s emphasis on security materials? Under the strict epidemic prevention policy, the logistics of more than a dozen provinces and cities across the country have been affected. The itinerary code is not allowed to get off the expressway. How many truck drivers can’t go back to Shanghai Jilin following delivering the goods, and who would dare to stay on the expressway? for delivery? Which supplier is willing to take the high cost and risk?
We may no longer have the freedom to buy a bottle of soy sauce we want.
More people have nothing to eat. In the past few days, many elderly people who live alone have waited until they ran out of ammunition and food before they sent out a cry for help and asked for a bite to eat. Among them are old professors and experts who have experienced times of catastrophe, made outstanding contributions to the motherland, and are not short of money. Intellectuals, who are trapped in 2022 without food, is it absurd?
Since the main goal of our anti-epidemic is to protect the elderly, how did these elderly people who can’t eat, can’t see disease, and even die?
Shanghai is a city with a large proportion of the service industry. There are a large number of migrant workers who stop and talk. They cannot “work from home”, and they do not have independent residences. , and there is no long-term financial support.
If we stay at home for 20 days, nucleic acid antigens take turns every day, and the number of positives is still skyrocketing, what is the effect of staying at home and daily nucleic acid?
All the testing doctors, neighborhood committees, and community properties are overloaded. The grassroots front-line workers have already undertaken tasks, orders, and scolding far beyond their own capabilities. Have you ever thought regarding putting yourself in someone’s shoes?
A leader of the Civil Affairs Bureau came out at the press conference the day before yesterday. He thought he was going to release some kind of policy to benefit the people. As a result, it turned out that creating an “epidemic-free community” was a big joke. Why not create a “cold-free community” and “AIDS-free community”. Hemorrhoid-free community “?
Are positive people guilty?
Is the positive result deliberately contagious?
Can an “epidemic-free community” be achieved through human effort?
Is it safe to live in a square cabin where feces and urine are flying all over the place in a hurry now?
Let community residents resent their neighbors who are unfortunate enough to be positive, create positive stigma, create obstacles, transfer conflicts to the masses, and punish positive buildings for not unblocking.
Isn’t this what the escort system is?
Today’s heart is really heavy, why is the city we love, proud of, and so shining so bleak? Is the patience and blood and tears we paid wrong? Is there anyone in this city who dares to argue with reason like the old volunteer in Xuhui District? Are there still officials listening to the voice of the people? The tomorrow we look forward to, how many 14 days will it take to arrive? What is the price to pay for a pragmatic people first? !
