[White Night Talk] An ordinary person’s ordinary cabin life

In recent Shanghai, of course, everything is centered on the “epidemic”. As a grass-headed commoner, daily life is home, nucleic acid, antigen, and online grabbing vegetables. It’s a pity that people are not as good as heaven. I am unfortunately suffering from Omicron, if there are any symptoms – fatigue, sore throat, thick phlegm. Omicron sore throat is different from cold and sore throat. Ordinary inflammation is like soreness, while Omicron sore throat is more like stinging pain. Thick phlegm is more sticky. in.

After the diagnosis, I followed the standard procedure and went to the shelter for half a month. Now there are a lot of descriptions of the life of the shelters on the Internet, both located in large exhibition centers and temporary isolation points, so let me introduce what the next ordinary shelter is like.

small room for two

Each of these square cabins in Shanghai has a host unit, both directly under the municipal office and the district office. Of course, all these square cabins have different conditions. A large exhibition hall square cabin can allow patients to run a full half-marathon, and the isolation point may only be a camp bed, not even a partition. The square cabin I live in was transformed from a warehouse. There are four floors in total, with about 150 to 160 people in one room. Every two people are separated into a small space. Because there are few people, there is no toilet queuing. The materials such as washbasin and WIFI are also simple and simple, and they are all gone. In addition to the lack of materials, Dabai in the shelter is also more responsible. Many shelters were not fully equipped at the beginning, such as water in the sewers and anti-skid toilets, etc. After the reaction, they were able to improve quickly.

It’s not a free sky outside, but a row of movable toilets

Of course, no matter how the square cabin is adapted to local conditions, there is also a unified side of the city, especially in terms of food and drink, which is quite unified. For breakfast, steamed buns and soy milk, two meat and two vegetarian dishes for lunch and dinner, Muslims can order separately. The city’s square cabins have nucleic acid at least once every two days, and they can go home after being overcast twice in a row. The hospital occasionally provides some traditional Chinese medicine, and other recovery methods are the same as a cold – more rest and more water.

Standard meal in the cabin

The routine of Fangcai life is very simple: get up, wait for breakfast, take test tubes, nucleic acid, lunch, dinner, sleep, and fill in the leisure time by yourself. The patients were naturally divided into two groups. A sloppy man like me, consciously entered the pig-raising mode, slept and ate every day, and ate and slept. But those with family and family, especially with children, still have to work hard to create some home atmosphere in a small world. The most basic thing is to cover the corridor with a sheet and create a small space for yourself. As for the more particular ones, you can bring a small folding table, where elementary school students sit to eat and take online classes, and their parents are tutoring them, which is very life-like.

Use the sheets to cover a small privacy space; in addition, the sheets in the square cabin are extremely useful, and many people hang them like mosquito nets to block the lights

Hitchcock, the master of suspense films, has a masterpiece called “Rear Window”. The protagonist photographer is recovering at home. When he is very bored, he will erect a telescope and peek through the rear window to see what the neighbors on the opposite floor are doing. People don’t have to be so troublesome in the square cabin, straighten their waist, and walk a few steps will have the same effect. These mini rooms are the reflection of the original daily life. Sometimes children cry because of trivial matters and family members. Doing exercises gives the illusion of shooting multiple sitcoms at the same time in the studio.

The most elegant living in the cabin are families with young children. In my cabin, there is a grandmother with a baby over one year old. Eggs, as they should be, and the two beds are joined together, giving the doll plenty of room to roll. Under the care of grandma, the little doll regarded the square cabin as the first fun summer camp in her life. When they were going home, grandma took him around the cabin for two times, showing off that the doll knew everything, but When asked where they lived, the doll answered the address of the cabin, which made grandma a little embarrassed. The doll obviously can’t tell the difference between the two, or at his age, where there is family is home.

In the videos on social media, we can see people playing cards and chatting, dancing and playing games, and even people vowing to find true love in the cabin. But in our small cabin, these social interactions have violated the taboo of nurses. After all, the new crown is still an infectious disease of the respiratory system. Many people have not been symptomatic for a long time, but they have been yin and yang for several weeks and cannot be discharged from the hospital. It is said that a few words may cause cross-infection.

Under normal circumstances, nurses do not worry about patients socially. At the beginning, the patients in this cabin were all family-based, and they were sent from different communities in pieces. However, a few days later, a group of patients came from a large community with thousands of people. Everyone looked up and didn’t look down to see each other, so the feelings of fellow villagers came to the fore, and several communication centers were quickly formed. After a week of isolation, some people have returned home one after another, and the previous family social circle has also disintegrated. The people who remain are often yin and yang, oscillating back and forth on the passing line, becoming more and more anxious, and the need to express their sincerity is more and more urgent. . Everyone fell into a state of incompetence and rage at the same time, and people who came at about the same time would spontaneously form a new social circle.

Photos of large cabins: Nurses must not welcome such activities in this cabin

The information center in the cabin will be opened several times a day. In addition to commenting on today’s meals, patients will be lined up to watch every day they are discharged from the hospital. After the nucleic acid results are released, the patients will be divided into several groups to discuss how to “continue to become overcast”, and for themselves. “Today becomes Yang” throws the pot. The more frequent this happens, the more often the nurses will shout “quiet, quiet”. If a new patient chats up an old patient who is about to be discharged, the nurse will rush up and shout, “This person is going to be discharged from the hospital. Now, be careful not to hurt anyone.”

Another major reason for psychological anxiety is the work and rest in the square cabin. After all, there is no mandatory management in the square cabin except for meals and nucleic acids, and actions are arbitrary. In addition to the 24-hour uninterrupted bright light, some people will move in the middle of the night to avoid crowds. Some people in the party in the middle of the night are just in need. For example, there is an old man who has emphysema. He can’t breathe on the bed. Be considerate.

Others are old ladies. They are afraid of being infected. They lie down early after dinner and get up at two or three in the middle of the night to wash their clothes. The worst thing is that these old ladies are very meticulous in their work. Just for a washbasin, they have to wash it with hot water for half an hour without any dead ends, and then they start to work. When they finished, the old people who got up early at four or five o’clock began to get up officially. So for the late sleepers or brothers with unstable sleep, one night’s sleep wasted again.

The picture comes from @Throne Court shit shovel officer

For an idler like me, even if there is no work to do and no need to bring a baby, the best and safest activity in the cabin is to play games online. When I was in the cabin, my routine was often like this – in the morning: breakfast, nucleic acid, sleep supplementation, mobile game daily activities; lunch, sleep supplementation, surfing the Internet, walking in the cabin to collect life materials, playing games, and disseminating various kinds of things in the city Rumors; dinner, complain about nucleic acid results; play games, sleep – basically can’t sleep, and then continue to swipe the net to play games. Because there is no WIFI in the cabin, I used 30G of data in just two weeks.

Considering the cost-effectiveness, the activities that do not disturb people in the cabin, save money, and have high cost-effectiveness are still playing games. At first, I was worried that taking out SWITCH would attract friends or children to watch, but it turned out that the real number was unfounded. The proportion of aging people in this area is too high. The number of elderly people in the cabin accounts for 2/3. When they see my Switch, they will only think that this thing is quite suitable as a mobile phone – the screen is large enough, and it can be easily placed. into the bag. As for young people and children, either because of work, or because of closed social circles, they don’t care what other people are doing, enough for me to quietly be a savior in the cyber world.

Fangcang is disinfecting the beds of discharged patients, obliterating the last traces of his stay here

Whether it’s to the nurses or the patients from all walks of life, the interpersonal relationship in the cabin is like “to help each other, it’s better to forget each other in the rivers and lakes” – no matter how hot the chat is in the cabin, when it’s time to leave, give the patients If you leave useful supplies, you will leave without looking back, without leaving a cloud. So in the square cabin, apart from changing from yang to yin, what else can people leave behind? Probably a life similar to a dream. In dreams, our past and future are blurred, we are put into a plausible identity, to experience a story, and then return to reality. The same is true in the square cabin, except for family members, everyone’s identity and social relations have been stripped, and they are suddenly airborne to live together in an unfamiliar space. In this space, people are wearing masks, their faces are blurred, they come and go, and they are erratic. Before they were completely familiar with each other, everyone separated again, and sometimes lack of sleep left a hazy special effect on the memory in their minds.

Sometimes I also think about what would happen if I left a few WeChat messages for patients at that time. In the first few days, it may relieve their anxiety, but they will eventually return to their original lives and continue to become WeChat accounts. of strangers. Shanghai now is like a giant beast that stopped at a loss. The insects on our giant beasts are naturally in a panic. I hope that the epidemic in Shanghai has been controlled, and I hope that it will improve as soon as possible, and the world will be free from diseases, so that people can return to normal life .

Fangcai box lunch, full of flavors. -CaesarZX