From August 2nd to August 13th, China time, in just eleven days, the plague claimed the lives of more than two million people worldwide, most of whom died within the first three days.
All the cities in the epidemic areas around the world have similar desolate scenes. The once bustling streets are lifeless, and there is no one more people to see. If it is not for the figures of the epidemic control personnel, or for some stray animals looking for food alone, looking for their dead owners.
Outside the epidemic area, people are also shrouded in the shadow of death, and their lives have become different.
Sales of medical masks, sales of various antibiotics, sales of various disinfectants, sales of mineral water, sales of protective clothing...
In the past half a month, people all over the world have almost only the same hot topic, about this plague.
"Jiahua, come out to play?"
"No, my mother knew she was going to scold me to death, and now I can still surf the Internet at home."
Chen Jiahua is a senior high school graduate from Dongzhou City. After the college entrance examination, he has been idle. He originally planned to travel in China in early August, but now he is gone. That's it for the rest of the summer. The news has been advising people to go out as little as possible during this period, and all large-scale events have been cancelled, and even cinemas and other places have to suspend business.
But staying at home is really hard, because of the way Legionella spreads, don't turn on the air conditioner.
Of course, it is impossible for everyone to be so obedient. Most of them feel that things will not burn themselves, so they just drive it. However, since Chen Jiahua's mother is a doctor at a health service station, out of his mother's expectation and his own interest, his university admission letter is a five-year clinical medicine program of Jihua Medical in this city.
Therefore, their family has not been sloppy in the prevention and control of Legionella, and the air conditioner and shower have not been turned on recently.
It is also because of this that the gloom over their home is thicker than that of others.
Now that the plague is out, the whole family is worried about seeing how many new patients and medical staff have died every day from the news.
Parents want him to give up the admission notice of Jihua Medical University, repeat his studies for a year, and take the college entrance examination next year, so he will not be a doctor.
But Chen Jiahua didn't want to, not because he had great ideals for wearing a white coat, but because he really didn't want to go through the third year of high school again. Thinking about living the days of falling in love and killing each other with Ti Hai, his scalp would become numb, so it would be better to let him die now.
"Son, you don't know how hard it is to study medicine." Mom persuaded, "If you go to study medicine, it is equivalent to taking the college entrance examination every day."
"That's not what you said last month." Chen Jiahua contradicted each time, "Why come out to find a job, what kind of doctor can find a partner."
"Easy to find a match?" Mom shouted, "If it was so easy to find a match, I wouldn't marry your father."
In fact, Chen Jiahua knew clearly that before her mother wanted him to study medicine, it was purely because she had been a doctor at a health station for most of her life, and she was not reconciled, and her income was still quite stable, so she just wanted to hope that her child would become a success.
In the past few days, my mother stopped persuading her, and instead sighed like Xianglin's wife all day long, saying that she had harmed him, as if he was already in some danger.
"Son, it's really okay to repeat a year of study." Dad kept persuading, "We are still young, we have to save our lives first, and then enjoy college."
Is this a matter of age? Chen Jiahua really didn't want to argue with them, he really couldn't do it again in his third year of high school, or he would lose all his hair when he was less than twenty.
Although the epidemic is still far away from Dongzhou City, and the fearlessness of the medical staff has recently been praised by the whole country, Chen Jiahua's family, which has always regarded itself as a future medical family, has undergone such a change.
"Are you afraid of going out to play? It's just the basketball court next to our community." The friend's dissatisfied voice came from the phone, "Are you so cowardly? Our Dongzhou is not an epidemic area. What are you afraid of? We had the flu last year, no It's all right."
At the end of last year and the beginning of this year, there was a very serious flu in Dongzhou. At that time, the whole city was under control, and the Internet was not available, and the communication of the people was almost completely cut off. The rest of the country didn't feel much. The Dongzhou people had been worried for several months, and they didn't fully recover during the Spring Festival.
Now that half a year has passed, it's slowed down, and many people's luck is much heavier.
"This time is different." Chen Jiahua sighed, "Two million people died in the world. My mother has an old classmate who works as a doctor in the city hospital. They said this time is very serious. The last flu has nothing to do with this." Bi, must not be underestimated."
"Forget it, forget it, I'm so cowardly, it's up to you." The friend said and hung up the phone.
"Sometimes you can live a long life by being cowardly." Chen Jiahua muttered, but the strange thing is, why isn't he afraid of being a doctor
It was so hot, so hot, he took his mobile phone to the balcony and sat down in a chair, while the natural cool breeze was blowing, while surfing the Internet for information.
Although the Internet has been heavily regulated these days, it is still chaotic. There are all kinds of news from home and abroad, and there are a lot of different claims, some true and some false. There were even rumors that some countries wanted to implement a nationwide blockade, and important officials from all over the world fled to Greenland, Antarctica and other places.
But the news he told his friend was true, his mother did have that classmate.
Looking at the news of the epidemic, Chen Jiahua felt uncomfortable, but looking at the touching stories and pictures of the epidemic areas: teams of medical staff in protective suits, children with strong faces, orderly people waiting to be evacuated...
He felt a power in his heart again.
Although these pictures are definitely not the whole picture, there are factors that the country wants to appease the people, so it makes such publicity pictures.
After watching mainstream media news for a while, I went to social networking sites.
As soon as Chen Jiahua opened it, he suddenly saw the title of a new post pushed to him by the app, which read: "A major event has occurred, and there is a suspected outbreak of Legionnaires' disease in Dongzhou!"
"What..." His heart popped up, and a chill suddenly surged up, making him a little numb... Epidemic? There is an epidemic here!
He quickly clicked on this post, and saw that someone used his mobile phone to take pictures of a group of quarantined vehicles passing by on the street, and then escorted a group of people into the car. The group of people was also really weird, all wearing strange linen clothes. He scrolled down to see the reply, and many Dongzhou netizens panicked, and that luck was easily shattered.
Now, the emergence of isolated vehicles is almost equal to the emergence of an epidemic.
The more Chen Jiahua read this message, the more confused he became. He wanted to refresh to see the new reply, but found that the post had been deleted by the administrator.
"Ah, it can't be true..." He became more and more frightened, and searched everywhere for the situation, but nothing was revealed.