This article was written by yxtlavi
On March 20, the number of confirmed and asymptomatic infections in Shanghai was 24+734, which increased to 32+865 on the 21st. On the 22nd and 23rd, there were 4+977 and 4+979 people respectively.
Shanghai’s current policy is to first conduct mixed nucleic acid tests on a street basis, and then gradually fine-screen the areas within the grid after finding positives, and finally to a certain building. The whole process is relatively static.
As a result, many residents will continue to receive nucleic acids that are quarantined for 48 hours twice, and when they think they are unblocked, they will be notified to stay at home for 48 hours, even if their nucleic acids are multiple times. If you are negative, you cannot go out.
The spread of infected people in various districts has brought management challenges to Shanghai, which has always adhered to “precise prevention and control”. More than 24 million Shanghai residents are living in different conditions under the “gridization”: Some people can go to work normally, while others have trouble buying groceries.
On March 23rd, “Shanghai grocery shopping” was trending.
“From $800, $50 delivery fee”
Xiao Chen (pseudonym), who lives in Changning, has been working from home since mid-March. There is only one quarantine control area near her home. The rest of the residents can do normal activities, and the food in the vegetable market is still available. enough. However, after the number of closed and controlled areas increased day by day, some vegetable markets were closed, and green leafy vegetables gradually became a hot commodity. When she came back to the vegetable market at 5 o’clock yesterday afternoon, it was already empty.
(Photo courtesy of Xiao Chen)
She went to another nearby supermarket, and the shelves were still empty, even though the prices had gone up a lot. “There are only two people in my family, and I have been able to buy them a few days ago, so I buy a little bit every day.” This caught Xiao Chen by surprise. In the end, Xiao Chen could only go home empty-handed, and there were not many dishes left at home.
Xiao Chen gave up online grocery shopping a long time ago, “I can’t grab it on the platform, and there is no delivery from my brother.” And Liu Li (pseudonym), who also lives in Changning, is worried about buying it outside The risk of food, so it has always been the platform to grab food. A certain platform originally planned to grab food at 0:00 last night, but after she went online, she found that it was changed to grab food at 6:00 in the morning.
Unfortunately, she opened another take-out platform. She was shocked to find that the vegetable market near her home had now asked for “delivery starting from 800 yuan and delivery fee of 50 yuan”, and a small handful of leeks were now sold At the high price of nearly 30 yuan, it still sells more than one month.
(Photo courtesy of Liu Li)
Changning District is not the area with the most outbreaks. Zhang Qiang (pseudonym), who lives in Pudong, has been quarantined at home for several days. A week ago, they were quarantined for two days. When the lockdown was lifted, someone shouted at the gate of the community, “Go and buy groceries.” Everyone rushed out to buy groceries. Zhang Qiang was worried about the continued isolation, so he bought frozen meat, instant noodles, quick-frozen dumplings and other foods that could be stored for a long time. Sure enough, I was quarantined again the next day, and it’s been 5 days now.
I couldn’t buy food online, and the neighborhood committee never contacted them. Zhang Qiang didn’t know what to do when he finished eating. “Maybe the neighborhood committee will help.”
Buying groceries is harder, distribution is even harder
Several Shanghai residents told Lilac Garden that they did not know when the quarantine would be lifted. An Ye (pseudonym) who lives in Minhang, like Zhang Qiang, was initially told to quarantine for 48 hours, followed by another 48 hours, and she has been at home for a week today. She joked, “2+2 has entered an infinite loop”.
Zhou Yiran (pseudonym), who lives in Pudong, was informed that he needed to stay at home for 7 days because of an infected person in his unit, but the nucleic acid test result came out late. In fact, the door was dismantled on the 10th day; Now that she is quarantined again, “I heard that it is 48 hours”, but she doesn’t care anymore, and she is still preparing for long-term quarantine.
Some people are also required to strictly manage the community within 12 days after being quarantined for 2 days, and do not go out unless necessary, which they call “2+12”.
Nowadays, the isolation policy is different for each household. Even in the same community, there will be many households blocked for different periods of time for different reasons, and various combinations of different numbers can be seen on the Internet.
Residents who are directly notified of the blockade for several days can still prepare according to multi-day ingredients, while those who are only notified at home for 2 days and only prepare according to the amount of food for 2 days will be The notice to continue to isolate will lead to insufficient food. The nervousness of online and offline purchases has exacerbated concerns about the shortage of ingredients, making them more overstocked with food, which has also led to the high-load operation of e-commerce and the shortage of delivery manpower, which also makes it difficult to buy food. The problem appears.
At yesterday’s press conference on epidemic prevention and control, Wu Jinglei, director of the Shanghai Municipal Health Commission, also gave an example. “For example, some communities initially notified to do nucleic acid twice within 48 hours, then notified to do nucleic acid twice in 48 hours, and then notified them to do nucleic acid again for 24 hours. They questioned, so why not tell it for 5 days at the beginning?”
YesIn this regard, Wu Jinglei explained the current policy: “Currentlyin a classification and hierarchical grid method, the Reduce flow, nucleic acid screening.” There is relatively little flow between grids, and if there is a positive in the grid, the grid will be further screened. Therefore, multiple rounds of screening are required, and the time for mixed inspection and judgment is longer, resulting in multiple overlapping isolation days.
Virology expert Chang Rongshan explained, “Even with advance notice, it is not easy to alleviate the shortage of vegetables.” If the vendor already knew that the nearby community would be quarantined for a long time, the vendor might not come over at all.
Actually, the supply of vegetables in Shanghai is not a big problem. In March, although the transaction volume has gradually increased, the wholesale price has remained stable, and some vegetables that are easy to preserve have even dropped in price. The main reason for the shortage may lie in distribution channels.
(Shanghai Jiangqiao Wholesale Market Source: Visual China)
With the increase in order volume, the city’s supply chain is facing new challenges. The first market in Jiading, Shanghai, urgently invested more than 400 shuttles to turn around, and 110 new-style tricycles for direct weighing and trading; a logistics park in Shanghai, which is responsible for more than 800 agricultural, industrial and commercial supermarkets in the city, these days in order to To ensure stable operation, more than 150 employees can only “self-isolate” in the park and work overnight.
Fulfillment is the next challenge. Shanghai riders have long relied on non-local household registration groups. According to a survey by Youth Journal, non-local couriers account for 94.8% of Shanghai couriers. Nowadays, the epidemic spreads in many places across the country. Some couriers failed to return to Shanghai after the Spring Festival due to the epidemic, and some were quarantined and unable to deliver. There are very few couriers who can still work, which leads to the above-mentioned “50 yuan” Shipping Fees” situation.
In addition, Shanghai’s “vegetable shortage” is actually more focused on fresh vegetables, fruits and meat. This has to do with the eating habits of the Shanghai area, and there is actually no shortage of long-standing dishes. Xiao Chen provided us with pictures of the vegetable market near her home. The green leafy vegetables were all snatched up, but there were a lot of pumpkins left and no one cared.
(Photo courtesy of Xiao Chen)
Expert: Living supplies are the most important part of the fight against the epidemic
Xiao Chen, who has not been quarantined for a long time, suddenly received a text message on her mobile phone at ten o’clock last night, informing her that the town will be closed in two hours, so she can only rush out to buy vegetables. It was crowded with people outside, and everyone didn’t know how long they would continue to be quarantined, so they could only buy more.
(Photo courtesy of Xiao Chen)
Faced with the difficulty of buying vegetables for many days, Gu Jun, director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce, also mentioned at the press conference that some measures have been taken so far: to ensure that the supply guarantee personnel who meet the requirements of epidemic prevention can go smoothly. Return to work, instruct the e-commerce platform to integrate distribution resources, increase distribution strength, instruct multiple e-commerce platforms to share distribution resources, operate at the wrong time, and let the takeaway brother deliver vegetables in the morning and takeaway at noon and evening.
Currently there are some communities in Shanghai, and distribution and supply are not a problem. The community where An Ye is located has organized a variety of package forms, and the community will deliver vegetables to everyone. If you do not use online software, you can also buy them offline. Although there are many people in line to buy, it is well organized.
(Photo courtesy of An Ye)
Virology expert Chang Rongshan also emphasized that this “difficulty in buying groceries” should focus on the problem of the elderly living alone.
It is difficult for the elderly living alone to buy groceries online. If they encounter the problem of offline shortage, without the help of community personnel, life may become a problem. The relatives of Xiao Liu (pseudonym) who lives in Meilong Town do not know how to buy vegetables online. When there is no vegetables at home, they can only use tea leaves to make rice. Xiao Liu hurriedly sent two big bags of vegetables at home. Quarantined, no one knows how the relatives will deal with the next meal.
(two big bags of vegetables from Xiao Liu to relatives)
Chang Rongshan said that in dealing with the epidemic, it is necessary to prioritize. Critically ill patients are “heavy”, and people’s living materials are “heavy”.
He still has confidence in Shanghai. “In 1988, there was a hepatitis A pandemic in Shanghai, which infected 300,000 people, but was eliminated in just two months. I still have confidence in Shanghai today.”
Chang Rongshan explained, “During the hepatitis A pandemic, Shanghai did not close the city at that time, but only restricted Shanghai citizens from going out of the city. In the end, there was no case of death, nor was it spread to nearby provinces. .Now the symptoms caused by Omicorn infection are different from hepatitis A. At the same time, there are vaccines and rapid testing tools, so home isolation is completely possible.”
Nowadays, there are still a large number of Shanghai citizens who are isolated at home, distressed to solve the problem of food ingredients, and puzzled by the isolation policy. Professor Zou Yuhua, a public health expert from Guangdong Pharmaceutical University, believes that “paying a certain price, through temporary closure and control, and timely detection of the number of infections, is to reduce the pressure of prevention and control in the future.”
Wang Chenguang, a professor at Tsinghua University School of Law and Vanke School of Public Health, emphasized: “It is an objective fact that the epidemic has recurred, and it is normal for policies to change accordingly. Revision of prevention and control strategies and diagnosis and treatment plans , it’s not a slap in the head and say that if you want to be strict, you will be strict, and if you want to be loose, you will be loose. This is not a simple game of two-pole concepts.”
In the early morning of March 24, Zhang Wenhong, director of the Department of Infectious Diseases of Huashan Hospital Affiliated to Fudan University, also published a long article on Weibo: “The new crown is not so scary, but the battle is difficult to fight.” He emphasized that Shanghai “If you want to prevent the city from shutting down, you need to constantly make strategic adjustments under the support of data. The current strategies are mainly: rolling screening, focusing on key points, and cutting off the chain of transmission.”
“The big data of screening tells us that a positive sign has quietly emerged: the proportion of rolling screening cases in non-controlled areas has gradually decreased, accounting for only 10% of the total cases , indicating that the social epidemic is gradually under control.Although the inflection point of the epidemic has not yet appeared, the conditions for forming an inflection point have gradually been met.”
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The source of the title map: Photo courtesy of Xiao Chen