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Chapter 9 Epidemic

As the time for the college entrance examination is getting closer and closer, the atmosphere in the graduating class is becoming more and more tense.

Due to SARS, students have not been on vacation for nearly two months. The classroom dormitory canteen is filled with the pungent smell of disinfectant water, and they have to undergo body temperature measurements from time to time. The students are inevitably depressed.

Especially from the TV in the canteen, I saw six suspected cases who returned home from work from the south and were intercepted and quarantined in the city. Many of my classmates who were nearby were a little confused.

The school has found ways to arrange more teachers to calm students' emotions, and at the same time strengthened management. Parents are no longer allowed to visit students at the school gate.

Now parents who come to school will be welcomed by teachers on duty at the school gate, explaining the situation one by one and letting them leave. The items they bring will be registered one by one, concentrated and disinfected and then handed over to the students.

Standing in the corridor outside the classroom, Chen Qiaoshan often saw security guards patrolling back and forth outside the school wall.

Recently, Yan Xiaoqin has been under great psychological pressure and seems worried.

After spending some time together, Chen Qiaoshan probably understood the situation at her family. Her father worked in the city's government department, her mother was a doctor in the city hospital, and her whole family lived in the city.

In today's uncertain SARS epidemic, civil servants and doctors are the two most dangerous professions. When it is the most dangerous, others can still crouch at home and wait silently for the end of the epidemic. Doctors and civil servants are always on the front line of the battle. This is a fact that anyone can see.

Chen Qiaoshan saw the future Prime Minister in the newspaper column a few days ago. Now he is the top leader of Henan Province. He looks very young when he reads the photos in the newspaper. He is everywhere to express condolences to medical workers fighting on the front line. Chen Qiaoshan felt quite moved.

Yan Xiaoqin was very worried about her parents' safety, so he could only stay by her side to try to comfort her emotions.

After dinner, Chen Qiaoshan accompanied her on campus for a while, hoping to relieve her tension.

He had nothing to worry about because he knew that there was no safest place at this stage than the school.

My parents and my younger sister are both in the countryside. It is a remote village located at the junction of Hubei and Henan. There is no migrant population near the village except barren mountains and fields. There is only a dilapidated asphalt road from the city to the town. Although there is also a Jiaozhi Railway that runs through the prefectures and counties, the station is also fifty miles away.

Chen Qiaoshan was wondering if he would contact his home, but he would just forget it if he thought about it carefully.

The Chen family did not install a phone number. If you want to contact your second uncle's family, you have to call him half a mile away. You run back and forth and say that the family is too troublesome and there is nothing to do, so the brother and sister usually won't call him back.

Chen Qiaoshan was wondering whether to go see Chen Xi. In recent days, people in the school were in panic and he should fulfill his obligation to be a brother.

"What are you thinking?" Yan Xiaoqin suddenly asked.

"Nothing." Chen Qiaoshan didn't tell her what she thought. After thinking about it, he said, "I'm thinking about the situation where we will go to college together in the future!"

"Who wants to go to college with you?" Yan Xiaoqin said coquettishly, but her expression relaxed, as if she was also conceiving the future scene of walking on the university campus with Chen Qiaoshan.

Chen Qiaoshan breathed a sigh of relief. It was also a good way to divert his attention.

The students who took the college entrance examination this year were really unlucky. The first time they changed to take the exam in June, they encountered SARS.

He clearly remembered that in recent days, the worst time of the epidemic in the country, Yanjing and Hong Kong should be the time when the confirmed cases of SARS broke out. I guess the government is also busy.

Of course, the climax is not far from the end. On the 24th of next month, Yanjing will lift the travel warning, but it will not be until June 24 next year that the World Health Organization announced the lifting of the tourism ban in Yanjing. During this period, several suspected cases have occurred, but fortunately they are all false alarms.

Chen Qiaoshan felt a little glad. Fortunately, he had not traveled to Yanjing, otherwise he would have lived a life of fear and fear all day long. He didn't know how his sister, who had never met in Yanjing, is now living.

However, his gratitude did not last long. Due to the severe recent epidemic situation, the school has strengthened the monitoring of students. Before dinner, the school doctor found several students with abnormal body temperature during the inspection in several classes in the second grade of high school.

The news spread throughout the campus during supper, and Chen Qiaoshan didn't hear the news from Sun Guangming until he was in evening self-study.

What's going on? It shouldn't be.

In Chen Qiaoshan's memory, he clearly remembered the SARS epidemic in 2003. Apart from the elevator infection incident at Northern Jiaotong University, no epidemic broke out in other schools. There were only a few cases in Henan Province. Has history changed?

Thinking of this, Chen Qiaoshan was a little chilled. What should he do if history really changed?

The reason why this period of time is so calm is because he knows the social development trend in the next decade? If history changes, what else can he rely on?

After a while, Chen Qiaoshan calmed down.

He can come here for no reason. What does it matter if he changes history? Two lifetimes of life experience are his greatest wealth.

In his subconscious, he came here to change history, and the news has not been confirmed so far. Spring was originally a season of frequent flu, but I don’t know what the result is. Now I can’t even count as a suspected case.

Chen Qiaoshan was thinking about what he could do now.

Chen Qiaoshan, who has experienced various public safety knowledge popularization on Weibo and WeChat in later generations, knows more than most people how to better strengthen self-protection in this crisis.

He knew that SARS was transmitted through close air droplets, and the most important thing he should do now is to try to avoid too much contact with the outside world. It would be great if he could get a few pairs of masks.

Thinking of this, Chen Qiaoshan and Sun Guangming muttered in a low voice, and then the two of them sneaked out of the back door.

After leaving the teaching building, Sun Guangming asked, "Dashan, are you saying it reliable? Is it safe to wear a mask?"

Chen Qiaoshan said affirmatively: "It's not a question of whether it is reliable or not. Now it is the most important thing. No matter whether it is reliable or not, you have to get some back."

"Where do we do it? Should we buy it in the supermarket?"

Chen Qiaoshan couldn't help rolling his eyes. Without a large-scale popularization of public health and safety knowledge, people have not yet developed the habit of wearing masks when going out. Without demand, there will be no market, and there will be no supermarket to sell masks.

Chen Qiaoshan knew that it was not until after SARS that masks were gradually well-known to the public and became one of the necessary protective equipment for home travel.

At this time, masks can protect the spread of SARS should have spread in Guangnan and Yanjing. Masks must have become a scarce resource. In the province where he is now, only sporadic infection cases have been discovered, which has not attracted enough attention from people.

Apart from school doctors, Chen Qiaoshan has not seen anyone wearing masks on campus.

He thought about a solution, which would be best to make masks popular in schools. Regardless of whether SARS exists or not, it could at least play a certain protective role.

Chen Qiaoshan glanced at Sun Guangming, "Think about it carefully, who usually uses masks in school?"

"You mean we go to the infirmary to buy it?"

"It's good to go to the infirmary, but it's not necessarily true if you buy it."

It is evening study time now, and the campus is very quiet. The two of them sneaked to the door of the infirmary opposite the supermarket.

The two looked inside for a while and there was only one female doctor sitting behind the clinic desk in the room.

Chen Qiaoshan whispered: "I'll go in and see the situation first. Stay outside, be careful not to let people notice you."

The doctor was wearing a gauze mask, covering her eyes tightly, and Chen Qiaoshan couldn't see her appearance clearly.

Seeing Chen Qiaoshan come in, the female doctor asked, "Where are you feeling uncomfortable?"

Hearing the female doctor's voice, Chen Qiaoshan looked at her carefully again, thinking that she should not be old, "Doctor, I'm not feeling uncomfortable. I just want to ask if you have masks here?"

"What are you asking about this?"

Chen Qiaoshan said: "Many people in the school have a fever. I want to buy a few masks. Wearing a mask should be safer."

The young woman was stunned for a moment after hearing her words, and said, "It's true that there are masks, but if you don't sell masks here, masks are prepared for doctors, and there is no way to give them to you."

Chen Qiaoshan didn't hear it much, so he nodded and walked out, which made the female doctor stunned. She originally thought that Chen Qiaoshan would be able to tell the truth for a while, but she thought that if she couldn't do it, she would give him a pair. Unexpectedly, she would leave directly after saying that she wouldn't sell it, which made her a little puzzled.

As soon as Chen Qiaoshan left the door of the infirmary, he saw Sun Guangming hiding sneakily at the door. This kid must have been hiding here just now and eavesdropping on the conversation inside.

Seeing him come out, Sun Guangming asked, "What should we do now? If we don't sell it, what are we doing now?"
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