No one would have imagined that this epidemic would last so long. Everyone thinks it will be like SARS in 2003. When spring comes, the epidemic will disappear.
When I was in Wuhan, although there were confirmed cases in Handan, I didn’t really feel that the epidemic was very close to me at that time. In the spring of 2022, first came back from Xingtai to see a doctor, and then the elder brother came back from Tianjin. That time Handan was closed and managed for one day, and nucleic acid testing was conducted for all the people. Just when people thought everything was going to pass, a positive case emerged in Jize, the hometown of chili peppers. But when the itinerary was announced, everything changed.
The number of confirmed cases and asymptomatic infections is increasing every day. There are medium-risk areas in Handan, and everyone’s itinerary cards have stars. Tomorrow the three-day national nucleic acid test will begin. I hope this will be the last time.
Hometown, the place that all outsiders dream about. The convenient transportation makes hometown become very close; but the arrival of the epidemic makes hometown become far away. The door of our home will be open to all those who return home, and those of us who return home should also consider our hometown and the children in our hometown. Everyone's freedom should be respected, but freedom should not turn into harm. In this rare and special period in human history, being inhumane to an individual may be the protection of a group.
No one wants to make things worse, and often this becomes the reason to make things worse.
Everything will come and everything will pass. Looking forward to the real spring blossoms.