I was placed in Room 204 of the Fifth Hospital, a room of about 15 square meters. There was a bed and a bedside table in the middle, as well as a red plastic boiling water bottle. There was nothing else and it was empty. There is a bathroom with a simple faucet on the washbasin without a hot water switch, and a simple water pipe raised high. It is a shower pipe. There is no shower head. The door says to drain hot water every few days. I always miss the time and never use hot water. I turn off the lights in the house day and night, and it still seems to be exposed straight around, without any privacy. The door was locked, the large glass windows had no curtains, and the lights in the corridor and the office building opposite were on all night like searchlights. Every day, except for nurses coming to test nucleic acid and someone cleaning up garbage bags at the same time, there was no one else. Every meal time, someone knocks on the mezzanine cabinet behind, places the lunch box in the cabinet, and closes the outside cabinet door. Then I open the door inside the ward, take it out and eat. One day I ate a hospital bed registration card, and I no longer have the appetite to swallow the food here. The meals for three meals a day have not changed. Breakfast consists of a big rice bowl, a box of porridge, and a small packet of pickled mustard. Chinese food is the same as dinner. A lunch box contains rice, meat and vegetables. Fortunately, they will not stay for a long time. Otherwise, they will cause malnutrition even if they are not sick. Is this a sick meal? It should be a dying patient's meal bar, but it feels worse than a prisoner.

Is this Shanghai? The All Seasons Hotel in Minhang where I stayed also felt dilapidated. The wallpaper and cupboard paper were cracked and turned out. The bedside table was dragged out and it was full of dirt. In gray weather, the trees on the street look bald and gray. When I sat in an enclosed ambulance on the way to Jinshan Public Health Clinical Center, my mood was the same: gray and depressed.

Jinshan District is located in the southwest of Shanghai and is on the verge of Zhejiang. Shanghainese even regard it as Zhejiang. Jinshan Public Health occupies a large area here. It is all garden-style buildings with yellow tiles and white walls. The highest floor is three floors, and there are many scattered gardens. It is divided into new crown area, tuberculosis area, leprosy area, AIDS area, etc. It is quiet everywhere, and all wards are closed. The district where I am in is a building on the third floor +3 beds. When we first came in, there were 189 people. Ten days later, the number of people increased to 400. The second building was opened. I heard that there are 500 beds in the whole hospital, but in order to save manpower, we added one bed in each room, increasing the number from the original 2 to 3. It is natural to squeeze, but compared to the fifth hospital, it is simply a paradise. It has recently been built, modern decoration, automatic pedal door opening, indoor negative pressure environment, and hot water is supplied 24 hours a day. Washing your face is also hot water. Meals are available at 40, 60, and 100 yuan per day. There is an egg and a milk or yogurt for lunch and dinner. There is water for lunch and dinner. The meals are changed every day, but there are guaranteed to be soy products, fish, vegetables. I throw away 2 eggs and one or two fruits every day. I really can't finish them. When you come in, each person will pay a deposit of 5000 yuan. When you check out, if you have a domestic medical insurance card, the deposit will be fully refunded, that is, you will not be charged a penny for food, accommodation and medication. Of course, your identity will be settled as a foreigner. A boy who was discharged with me that day spent 6800 yuan in 10 days.

When I entered on December 24, there were already two little girls living there. One of them came from the United States on the same flight as me and came in two days before me. She was asymptomatic. One person came from the UK and had lived there for more than ten days. He had a cough. I was worried that I would be infected for the second time. The nurse said that the room was in a negative pressure environment, and the air flow would not flow horizontally upwards, so there would be no cross-infection. Later, when an additional building was opened, both of them moved to the new building. The next one came in was from Denmark and the other one came from Australia. They both said that they felt Omicron symptoms. This time I was really scared. The nurse said, don't worry, this living in this place was evaluated by doctors and experts. No cross-infection. It makes sense to think about it. People turn negative every day. No, I came in because of weak positive. The test was negative that day. On the eighth day, the hospital was negative. On the ninth day, the Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention was also negative. On the ninth day, I went through discharge procedures. I was officially discharged on the tenth day. Later, I learned that the two girls I lived with for the first time had both lived there for 30 days. This shows two problems: first, there is no cross-infection in living in the same room, and second, the course of treatment for complete improvement of COVID-19 should take about 30 days. The reason why I was discharged normally may be that I had an infection in the United States and had not completely healed, so it was weak yang. They may have been newly infected. Girls from the United States didn't have cold symptoms until the eighth day. Coupled with the next period, I stayed in the public health for a full 30 days, while girls from the United Kingdom had symptoms all the time and stayed there for 30 days.

I remember after I got the COVID-19 in the United States, all five members of my family got it, and it took the baby a month to get out of the body. It took my husband 35 days, the son-in-law took longer, and the daughter's time was slightly shorter. After the infection, we all took Lianhua Qingwen and Trachitis Pills and Chinese herbal medicines at home. The baby gave children cold medicine just two days ago, and later asked the doctor what to do? The doctor said that if he didn't have a fever, there was nothing we could do. Let him recover himself. In this way, it was not until 30 days that the baby's mental state completely returned to normal and should be fine. In addition to taking traditional Chinese medicine every day in public health, we just wait for time. Very few people are discharged from hospital within 10 days, usually thirty to forty days.

No wonder the United States calls the COVID-19 pandemic. If you are vaccinated and infected, the symptoms will be very mild and I am almost asymptomatic. I suddenly fell asleep when I had a cold. When I woke up, I felt that my arm was blocked. I was afraid that I had a stroke. I went to the emergency department. The doctor diagnosed it with COVID-19 and had no blood clots. I asked me if I should have a shot to prevent severe COVID-19. I felt that I had no problem, so I didn't take it. I came back and took Chinese patent medicines and Chinese herbal medicines for treating COVID-19, and then I drank astragalus ginseng and jujube decoction to lift my breath. I was fine in about a week. Later, several tests were done more than a month later, all of which were negative. We all think that the Shanghai Centers for Disease Control and Prevention test indicators are stricter than those in the United States, so my test was negative in the United States and positive in China. Or it may be said that COVID-19 toxicity does remain in my body, but it does not pass on to me. Shanghai is a conservative view, and it must be tested to be completely non-toxic. The testing in public health was very strict. On the day we entered, we took 13 tubes of venous blood, one tube of arterial blood, secondary urine and feces, plus nasal and pharyngeal swabs. When we came out, we also had double nasal and pharyngeal swabs and one tube of blood. On the 14th day before I came out of the hotel, I did the same tests as when I came out of the public health department, plus urine tests and environmental tests, including the surface of my mobile phone pillow.

Counting my experience in returning to China, I was notified that I was COVID-19 positive the second day after I entered the hotel. I was observed at the Shanghai Fifth Hospital for 4 days, stayed in the public health room for 10 days, and quarantined in the hotel for 14 days. In addition to the previous 2 days, a full 30 days. When I returned to Guangzhou, I was quarantined at home for 7 days. For 37 days, I was completely isolated from the outside world. If it were not for the company of my mobile phone TV, I would probably have gone crazy and depressed in addition to mold. In fact, my roommates were a little anxious and desperate. I obviously came back to reunite with my family and celebrate the New Year with my family. Now I'm fine. I can't get out of the hotel until the beginning of the New Year.

I suddenly felt that I was really too free in the United States. Unless it was a serious illness or I gave you a shot to prevent a serious illness, I basically didn't treat it or give you any medicine. Go home and you can do whatever you want. It's just that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) called and told my son-in-law that you are all patients and close contacts, so you must be quarantined at home for 21 days and report your physical condition every day.

I was free, but all five of my family were infected. My daughter is very angry about us bringing the COVID-19 to them, especially the baby under one year old. She said that if they were tested and quarantined as soon as they came in like China, they and the baby would not get sick. I am also speechless. Would I want to? If it weren't for helping take care of the children, would I have won the COVID-19 in China? In China, even if I get the COVID-19, I will get medical treatment for free. In the United States, not to mention the fact that I don't treat you, the cost of going to the emergency department was more than US$10,000, and the cost of the two was more than US$20000, equivalent to about 140,000 yuan. Can I afford it? However, our daughter spent US$1000 each to buy insurance for both of us for six months. According to the contract, the insurance was inclusive after paying US$250 per person. As a result, we still paid US$500 each, making it 1000. The daughter bought the insurance specified by the son-in-law's company, which means that the whole family starts at US$10,000 a year, and after more than 10,000, the insurance covers all expenses incurred. If you didn't spend 10,000 yuan that year, the rest of the money will go into your account next year to pay for the next year's medical expenses. Ten thousand dollars is not much. The baby cried one night because he hadn't changed the diaper. My daughter and the others were afraid that he would have a stomachache after eating unclean things on the floor. They went to the Children's Hospital to have a B-ultrasound. Finally, they found that his bottom was red. They applied the medicine, and finally settled the bill for US$1500. When they came back, they also bought a moisturizer designated by the doctor nearby at their own expense. In other words, they had to buy another medicine for personal use at home. Whether it is included in the medical insurance depends on the terms of the insurance contract. So getting the COVID-19 in the United States is not a terrible thing. If you get vaccinated, the infection is basically mild, and the symptoms will disappear after staying at home for a few days, or you get a shot in the hospital within 10 days of getting the COVID-19. The needle to prevent severe diseases will not develop in the direction of severe diseases. The problem is that each emergency room visit is basically about 10,000 US dollars. Who has the money? Who has the money to buy such premium insurance? So this is the reason for the high case fatality rate of COVID-19 in the United States: some people resist vaccination, and some people have COVID-19 and have no money for treatment.

Zhong Nanshan said that China has completed more than 80% of vaccinations and has come up with specific drugs. If the case fatality rate can be controlled within 0.01%, the country will be free to eliminate zero. Yes, another reason why China can liberalize is that patients can receive free diagnosis and treatment. The United States has liberalized it, and there are conditions for liberalizing it: vaccines and special drugs, but there is no universal medical insurance and free COVID-19 medical care!

2022-1-17 To 2022-2-5 in Guangzhou