Online Class Notes (Mike)

Shanghai lockdown memo

This memo probes to help remember the decays the poor management gave us.

Before the formal lockdown, the committee of community casually announced that the community was required to take an overall covid nucleic acid test, during which the whole neighbor would be locked down to assure the accuracy of the testing outcome. We were notified to prepare 2 day’s necessity the lockdown. However, in case of emergency, we decided to set aside a 5-day buffer, thus bought enough food for a whole week. 3 days later, local government officially announced that shanghai was going to be locked down. 10 days later, things turned out to lose control, those infected spread over the whole city, the daily food supply has been cut off. The city was a mess, and the speculators took the chance and manipulate the prices of necessity into a ridiculous place. At the same time, some officials hided in the shade, utilizing their power to monopolize food supplies, and gained a ton of bloody money through it.

Under such condition, we could barely able to buy any seasoning or food, especially vegetables. Compared with meat, vegetables and fruits were much easier to rot. Due to consistent lack of vitamin, our healthy condition became worse every day. We got moody, tired, easy to be pissed off, while still got a lot of jobs to do, and clients to patiently communicate. My roommates got fragile and aggressive, always tried to pour her rage on me, coincidently her boyfriend had been quarantined in company dure to the lockdown. The double pressure was going to kill me, and what’s worse, I just resigned from last employer and joined this new company a couple of days, colleagues were unfamiliar, working method was unclear, a crazy thought came to my mind, to simply escape from this cursed life and return to hometown, and start a new life. At least there would be no more hunger, and no more exploitation.

Struggling for 3 months, my weight plumped by 7 kilos, fitness deteriorates a lot, which affects  sports skills a lot. The landlord says that each day, a dozen of tenants are leaving this city, which gives them bubbles of fascinate and then heartlessly destroyed it.

Until today, the governments, along with the media, still insist that the momentum of economy appears to be “Steadily towards better”, which just like a moon reflected in the surface of water.

Shanghai lockdown memo

This memo probes to help remember the scar the poor management left/inflicted on us.

Before the formal lockdown, the neighborhood committee/committee in out compound casually announced that the community was required to take an overall covid test, during which the whole complex/compound would be locked down to assure the accuracy of the testing outcome. We were notified to prepare 2 day’s necessity/grocery for the lockdown. However, in case of emergency, me and my two roommates decided to 7 days of food/food enough for 7 days. Three days later, local government officially announced that Shanghai was going to be locked down. Ten days later, things turned out to be uncontrollable/things got out of control. There were newly infected cases all over the city, the daily food supply had been cut off. The city was a mess, and the speculators took the chance and manipulated the prices of necessity into a ridiculously high level. At the same time, some officials hided in the shade, utilizing their power to monopolize food supplies, and gained a ton of bloody money through it.

Under such condition, we were only able to buy a few food items, not to mention vegetables and fruit. Compared with meat, vegetables and fruits were much easier to rot/go bad. Due to consistent lack of vitamin, our health condition became worse/were worsening every day. We were moody, tired, irritable, meanwhile, we still got a lot of work and clients that we need to communicate patiently. My roommates got vulnerable and aggressive, always trying to pour/dump her rage on me, coincidently her boyfriend had been quarantined in company due to the lockdown. The double pressure was killing me, and what’s worse, I just resigned and joined this new company a couple of days. I was unfamiliar with the company and my new colleagues, and the way/style of working was completely different, a crazy thought came to my mind: escape from this cursed life and return to hometown to start a new life. At least there would be no more hunger, and no more exploitation.

Struggling for 3 months, my weight plumped by 7 kilos, fitness deteriorated a lot, which affected my sports skills greatly. The landlord says that each day, a dozen of tenants are leaving this city, which gives them a hard time and then heartlessly destroyed it.

Until today, the governments, along with the media, still insist that the momentum of economy appears to be “Steadily towards better”, which just like a moon reflected in the surface of water.

Vocabulary

inflict (v)
The storm inflicted heavy damage on this area.

apartment compound/complex (n) 小区

community (n)
the gay/scientific

neighborhood

grocery (n)
I do grocery shopping 3 times  a week.

typo (n)
There are in 5 typos in this sentence.

case (n)
There were 20 new cases yesterday.

4-digit

worsen (v) to get worse

irritable(adj.) to get angry easily

vulnerable (adj.) – vulnerability (n)

fragile (adj.) only used for objects.

outlet (n)
Social media was my main emotional outlet during the lockdown.
outlets (n) 奥特莱斯

I do remote work.