Everyone can take a look at the road I have walked. If it has ever curved, please turn to another direction - I will guard this intersection and stop you from going back.
I haven’t been here for a long time, and I forgot to say anything when I picked up my pen.
Where to start?
From time to time, the roar of airplanes could be heard in the sky. I wonder if it was the plane with the coil above its head that was flying by again.
In the blink of an eye, this human war against viruses is coming to an end. Although it is only in China now, I believe that it is not an accident that humans can win the opportunity to move forward in the evolution of the earth. . As long as everyone understands that working together to advance is our only way out, the prospects will not be bad.
Light will surely come, just like our country.
The baby still has some coughs, but I am no longer as panicked as I was more than a month ago.
More than a month ago, I embarked on a journey from Shanghai to Anhui.
Before that, I went to the supermarket to buy New Year’s goods and found that many convenience food shelves were empty. The supermarket staff didn’t even have time to replenish the goods. Even my little baby pointed at the empty shelves with his childish voice. The shelf told me:
"Mom, look! It's empty! We need to replenish the stock!"
At this time, I simply thought that this was just because of everyone living in Shanghai. Everyone is going home to celebrate the New Year, which is an inevitable phenomenon brought about by the strong purchasing power of New Year goods, but they have completely forgotten that at this time, half of the customers in the supermarket are already wearing masks.
Although I don’t care much about the news, after I went to the supermarket, my baby’s uncle called us and mentioned the gossip about the epidemic, so I kept a little note. I thought to myself, that was in Wuhan, so far away from us, so life would be fine as usual. But maybe I should bring some masks back with me.
At 12 noon the next day, our small family filled the trunk with all kinds of New Year’s goods and embarked on a self-driving journey to my grandparents’ home in Anhui.
In the middle of the trip, we were going to buy some steamed buns for lunch. However, the steamed buns in the store were still ten minutes away from being cooked, so I planned to see if any masks were on sale. I found that only Japanese masks with no medical purpose were still on sale, and the prices ranged from 50 yuan to 7 yuan. Between ten yuan.
In addition to me, within a few minutes, people came to ask about masks one after another, and they all looked nervous.
It was too expensive, and it had no protective effect against viruses and droplets. My husband immediately rejected my intention to buy it. I thought to myself, it is really not worth it; fortunately, I was afraid before. I am allergic to pollen, I have hoarded 20 medical disposable masks, and I once exchanged it for an N95 mask for one yuan. Looking back now, at that time, was I a well-off woman with hard currency? (Manual dog head)
Although I wore a mask, none of our family wore them during this trip. (Afterword: In fact, not wearing a mask correctly or wearing a mask during the epidemic prevention and control period is completely wrong!)
Midway through, the uncle made another video call. He had already wrapped himself in a mask. Tie it tightly.
I began to feel vaguely uneasy.
In Jiangsu, we were stuck in a traffic jam once, and then, as we went westward, there were fewer vehicles on the highway.
We left Shanghai after 12:30 and arrived in Hefei at 4:30. This was something we had never dared to imagine before - it took at least five and a half hours for us to go back. , if it is before the Spring Festival and the highway is congested, it may take eight hours.
After entering Hefei, there was a large market. From the car window, I saw the big signboard containing the word "Wuhan". The market that should have been bustling was empty and deserted. horrible.
Finally I arrived at my grandparents’ house. There was a famous Chinese medicine clinic at the door. I had added their official account before and knew that they sold Chinese medicine sachets. I thought, maybe I would buy one for my family. Sachet, keep safe - because my hometown has always had the habit of drinking herbal tea, and the housewives who are familiar with the same source of medicine and food, and love making soup, all have a certain understanding of traditional Chinese medicine, so their sachets are better than Masks make me feel more at ease. (Afterword: Traditional Chinese medicine is very useful, but wearing a mask and practicing physical isolation must be king!)
However, when I ran to the clinic, I discovered that their door had been locked with an anti-theft lock in advance. Get up - before, this clinic was very punctual and never had the habit of closing early. ——Last year, I bought a sachet a minute before they closed.
I had no choice but to go home empty-handed.
No matter what, it is a very happy thing for the whole family to get together to celebrate the New Year.
However, no one noticed that my father-in-law had begun to feel uncomfortable in his throat a few days before we returned home - but in order not to worry us, he neither went to the doctor nor told anyone. But he had to carry it on his own. He has been happily busy with his job in the supermarket and happily coming home from work to tease his cute little grandchildren.
Everyone is happy.
Early the next morning, we took our baby with us and went to the supermarket where my father-in-law worked to buy New Year vegetables.
The baby is small and resists wearing a mask. I have no choice but to let him. (Afterword: As a mother, I am indeed incompetent at this time! Remind me again: Do not go out during the epidemic prevention and control period, and be sure to wear a mask correctly when going out!)
A staff member whom I had never met asked kindly. Me:
"Don't you have an elderly person at home to help take care of your child? Why are you taking him out now in this situation?"
I'm embarrassed to say it. In fact, I think it may not be so serious—— But after she reminded me, I felt that maybe I should really take it seriously.
In the evening, I started to greet my best friends in my hometown on the Tropic of Cancer in advance.
My best friend is a doctor, so she will naturally be concerned about my situation related to the epidemic.
After returning from the supermarket, I have learned a lot of the latest information related to the epidemic through the public accounts I follow. In particular, various public accounts in Shanghai are already spreading science popularization overwhelmingly. This information made me nervous. I quickly searched for various situations in Anhui and found that there were already many confirmed cases in Hefei.
Now I am completely awake.
Combined with all the things I encountered along the way, I began to remind my best friends to pay attention to safety.
However, even though my best friend is a doctor, she still said carelessly that the situation was not that serious, and said that my worries were unfounded, so that I could relax.
She also told me something that she thought was an interesting anecdote:
In our hometown, it is said that someone just came back from Hubei during the day and was reported to the county in the afternoon. People from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put on protective equipment as quickly as possible, drove special prevention and control vehicles, and quickly took the reported person to isolation and observation.
As a general doctor who is only a few years older than me, she even thinks that our county’s prevention and control efforts seem to be a bit excessive.
After listening to her words, I was very surprised, and then I quickly realized - it turned out that when SARS happened 17 years ago, my best friend was studying abroad, and she did not understand what happened in her hometown.
At that time, I was in middle school.
When SARS first broke out, CCTV was still busy "refuting rumors." Even focus interviews said that SARS was "little harmful." Our county received a notice from the city. County hospitals, in particular, began to implement special prevention and control measures—even in hospitals, the prevention and control measures were even stricter than those later required by the state.
Because we don’t know what kind of infectious disease it is - but some of the local senior cadres who are still alive have personally experienced the germ warfare waged against us by the Japanese during the Anti-Japanese War. As history scribes, those difficult years are as if they were yesterday in their memories. They blew a strong whistle to our local hospitals, fearing that this time we would experience an infectious disease more terrifying than the plague - so our hospital began to take measures on its own as soon as it received the first SARS patient in the region. Isolation and protection were carried out according to the level of plague prevention.
After that, we had to take our temperature every day in school and drink a cauldron of preventive medicines prescribed by old Chinese doctors. No one asked us to drink isatis root for prevention, but at that time, disinfection knowledge was not as popular as it is now. The teachers just brought a kettle and used boiled vinegar to disinfect us in the classroom - the sour taste was very good. The way they eat - Although this method of acid and vinegar disinfection is extremely unscientific, everyone has tried their best to fight the epidemic and will never give up.
I have to be the student on duty every few days, and my thin shoulders can’t carry the two large wooden barrels of Chinese herbal tea, so I walk a few more times with the girls who are on duty together, from the end of the playground to In the cafeteria, they carried them across the playground with a pole, took turns carrying them up to the teaching building with a smile, then lifted them up with difficulty, and poured them into the boiling water tank in the classroom. Then I looked at everyone who has a tradition of drinking herbal tea, talking and laughing, opening the tap, and one by one, they took turns putting it into their lunch boxes and drinking it. Slowly, the scent of medicine filled the entire classroom.
During this period, as middle school students in the Tropic of Cancer zone where the climate is hot and humid and prone to colds, and who live together in collectives, from the onset of the SARS epidemic to the end of the entire semester, only two people in our entire grade fell ill. For common colds and fevers, it must be said that strict hygiene, control and prevention with traditional Chinese medicine play an extremely important role.
Now, seventeen years have passed, and I still vividly remember what happened back then, not to mention all the staff in the county, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who were the backbone of epidemic prevention and control at that time.
So I’m not surprised at all that they responded so quickly this time.
I sent this story to my doctor friend by voice, hoping that she would take precautions in advance.
The next day, I saw a video of a doctor’s best friend’s friend posting a video of her children playing in a community park. There were many elderly people sitting around, resting and chatting, but no one was wearing a mask.
I was a little anxious and sent her a message to remind her to pay attention to safety and tell her that my parents-in-law who work outside have told us that the community where we live has now been closed and everyone must wear a mask before going out. .
She replied to me: "Haha, it's not that serious. There are no cases found in our city."
I fainted.
Seven
In the evening, news came from my husband’s work group that two of their colleagues, who went on a business trip to Wuhan before the holidays, had been confirmed to be infected with the new coronavirus. And the virus also followed them and infected another colleague who had never been to Wuhan.
I quickly asked my husband if he had ever had close contact with them.
My husband’s answer made me feel relieved: “I said hello to them before they went to Wuhan, but I haven’t seen them since.”
Next, I reported the news at midnight At twelve o'clock, I sent it to my best friend who is a doctor.
Eight
The next day, my best friend posted a photo of herself reading the World History of Infectious Diseases book on Moments, which mentioned the Black Death in Europe.
She sent me a message in the evening, saying that the infectious disease this time was really serious, and told me to be careful and take precautions.
She also specially gave me this Chinese medicine prescription:
During the Spring Festival, when visiting relatives and friends, it is inevitable that you will get angry when it comes to food. Now I will promote one, everyone can write it down. ! Drinking it as a family can achieve preventive and therapeutic effects! It also has the function of clearing heat, removing liver-fire, and dispelling dampness and heat!
Prescription: Honeysuckle 12 Forsythia 15 Nepeta 12 Bamboo leaves 15 Mulberry leaves 12 Trichosanthes bark 15 Scallop 15 Scrophulariaceae 25 White peony root 15 Gallus gallus gallus 15 Licorice 6
? Put Five or six bowls of water! Soak for half an hour first; boil for about fifteen minutes! Don't cook it for too long, otherwise the medicinal properties will be greatly reduced!
(Afterword: The dosage above should be calculated in grams. If foreign friends are lucky enough to see this prescription, they can take it to a local Chinese medicine practitioner to see if it can be used.)
In fact, in the fight between humans and viruses, masks are physical shields, Chinese medicine is magic attacks, special medicines are desperate strangulation, and vaccines are the ultimate weapons.
In the next article, I will mention a drug - recombinant human interferon α2b spray (Pseudomonas), which has given me great support and encouragement - as for why, below More details in Chapter 2.
" Before that, you can read the following three articles:
1. "China's State Food and Drug Administration is not slow in its actions. On April 24, α2b interferon, the first drug to prevent SARS, passed the "green channel" and entered the clinical trial stage. Then, on April 29, the second omega interferon also entered clinical trials. These two drugs are equivalent to life-saving protective clothing and can help reduce the infection rate of ordinary people, mainly front-line medical staff."—— Excerpted from China Interferon's Father's Fight against SARS
2. Hou Yunde: Spending his life "fighting" the virus
3. About recombinant human interferon omega nasal spray:
< p> Chen Wei, a researcher at the Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Academy of Military SciencesYes, she is the prototype of Dr. Chen, the national treasure doctor who invented the Ebola virus vaccine in "Wolf Warrior 2". She is the leading developer of the recombinant novel coronavirus (2019-COV) vaccine (adenoviral vector) that has entered Phase I clinical trials.
Recombinant human interferon omega nasal spray is also her invention. ” p>
At the same time, I found the following article, in which 13 key scientists appeared, including Hou Yunde and Chen Wei.
This gives me, an ordinary citizen, the confidence to win - there are so many capable scientists in China, and the world will definitely be saved!
Big deal! 13 academicians jointly signed the "Special Proposal on Vaccine Technology and Industry"
Next chapter 2020, my battle (2)