Chapter 262 – Chapter 262. Coronavirus – 1
(This is Song Ji-eun’s central point of view.)
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Saturday.
Originally, Ji-eun might have gone to the crowded Dongdaemun to do Pilates on a holiday and then to buy clothes for the first time in a while.
Jieun sometimes went to Dongdaemun to buy clothes at a department store, and she enjoyed finding pearls in the dirt, so-called ‘deposit items’ among Bose.
Ji-eun sometimes went looking for pretty clothes with good cost-effectiveness like pearls in the soil, but only came across soil…
Still, the process of shopping itself was thought of as an occasional healing leisure for Jieun.
She didn’t like being extravagant.
Although the salary of a civil servant was decent, it was not too much for her to be extravagant, and she preferred to match her own fashion style rather than expensive ones.
Movement, fashion. These two could be seen as some of her great interests.
Jieun’s style mainly pursued a feminine fashion style.
When she was at home, she, of course, wore a comfy sweatshirt or something, but when she went out, she almost enjoyed wearing a slightly skimpy outfit.
Ji-eun like that, this week she was shopping at a clothing store and couldn’t make a choice at all.
“Do you need a plastic bag?”
“No. I brought it separately.”
Maybe it was because of Ji-eun’s usual personality that she stopped shopping and decided to stock up on groceries.
Jee-eun, she was the type of person who had a lot of worries from the beginning.
So she had a lot of things she cared about every day.
Among radioactivity, she preferred Mediterranean seafood because she was concerned about the accumulation of cesium caused by radioactivity flowing in the Pacific ocean current, and preferred domestic livestock products because of Peirin, a potentially harmful ingredient among pig growth promoters.
The dangers of GMO food have not yet been specifically identified, but in some ways, side effects may have not yet emerged, so they refrain from eating them.
In the case of yogurt, there are quite a lot of types of fruit-containing yogurt, and among the many yogurts, only two products used domestic fruits, and the ratio of raw milk differed by as much as three times.
The price is not that different, but the ingredients are really different.
This is only part of it.
In reality, Jieun was more meticulous about things.
Apples, kale, lettuce, broccoli, and other items that were difficult to prepare and eat in Gosichon were cooked separately for health reasons.
After purchasing ingredients like that, Jieun came to see a lot of things about cheap things not being cheap for nothing, and expensive things not being expensive for nothing.
Of course, just because it’s expensive doesn’t mean it’s good.
However, after buying and eating like this, Jee-eun suddenly began to purchase high-quality products among domestic ingredients, focusing on at least safe ones, if not those ingredients of the rich.
To prevent adult diseases by controlling calories and sugar, I always checked the nutrition label when purchasing groceries.
For example, even if 50% of the daily recommended sugar content is 50g, a safer amount of intake is about 25g.
In addition, I bought a bed without radon, used a blue screen blocking filter on my cell phone and computer to prevent deterioration of eyesight, and used high-quality products such as cosmetics and toothbrushes.
Also, I did exercises such as Pilates separately, and once in a while, I went to the gym to exercise separately.
It was something that someone might say was extreme.
However, Song Ji-eun was the type to worry a lot.
For others, it might seem like a cumbersome task to care about so many things as if a housewife raising a child takes care of them.
However, Song Ji-eun felt more at ease because of this concern, and she always felt good about caring about her health.
More than anything she hated being sick.
In the old days, water and air were said to be pure.
But now it’s different.
I don’t know the effect on the human body, but anyway, radioactivity is released into the sea, heavy metal dust is spewing out from factories, and food is made by manipulating genes.
The world has changed a lot.
Jieun felt that way.
The development of medicine has helped to extend human lifespan, but the development of non-medical fields such as industry and industry may have contributed to making humans suffer from diseases as much as it is convenient.
‘Still, if the world is better now than in the past, it must be a better world.’
Song Ji-eun thought about this and that while putting the groceries she had bought into a plastic bag.
Song Ji-eun, who came to the local market this time, goes to a small market in the neighborhood to stock up on food for the time being, even if she puts down her shopping time at a clothing store, which is an occasional leisure and healing time. I went out shopping to buy some of the stuff.
It was from the idea that she had to eat and live.
She thought that, judging from the recent atmosphere, she didn’t even want to come out this much.
I even took a little vacation.
As she rested a bit at home, she planned to stock up on some food, clean up and do laundry, then tidy up the fridge and clean the house.
-Crush, rustle…
After Ji-eun finished her calculations, she eagerly put the items in.
Whoever saw her, she might think that she might be someone who is trying to get into the underground bunker at any moment, she didn’t know.
Aunt Marquette looked her jieun up and down her.
Jieun could see that her outfit was slightly unusual.
These days, as the city is a city, many people wear masks or go around, but Jieun was a little more special.
First of all, the mask was at the level of a dust mask that exceeded the general KF94 premium mask.
It has a small valve that is slightly larger than a 500 won coin.
So, it can be seen that the air, heat and carbon dioxide inside the mask can be smoothly discharged to the outside, which can be seen as a small cleaning container.
Jieun was wearing not only a special mask, but also goggles.
The goggles were slightly large transparent framed glasses with a slight yellow tint.
“Goodbye~.”
“Yes, good bye.”
Jieun stuffed groceries into two medium-sized or larger plastic bags.
After a lot of groceries went in, even those two plastic bags barely went in.
Jieun bought something and went to the market.
– Jeobeok, Jeobuck…
Jee-eun walked toward the house with plastic bags nearly full in each hand.
It was because of the recent corona virus that Ji-eun prepared multiple things, such as a dust mask and goggles, while going to the market near her house.
This corona virus was also called the Wuhan Pneumonia, and the prestige of the plague was getting stronger day by day.
Day by day, the number of confirmed cases was increasing and people were dying.
However, there seemed to be no clear solution.
‘It wasn’t like this even during MERS.’
– Jeobeok, Jeobuck…
Jieun recalled the time when the MERS virus spread on her way home with two full plastic bags.
At that time, I thought that there was no such thing as fear.
At that time, he remembered getting on the express bus.
There were many people on the express bus.
And just in time, Ji-eun caught a cold and was coughing for a long time.
However, although there were people who sometimes wore masks, it was not the atmosphere to wear all the masks, and even if they coughed, there was no reaction, assuming it was just that.
Then he passed.
Jieun later found out that MERS was a very scary disease.
In the Middle East, it was a significant lethal dose of the virus with a mortality rate ranging from 30% to 40%.
In this case, although the current mortality rate was low, it was not vigilant.
The Wuhan Pneumonia Virus has just begun to spread.
In the case of the previous SARS, the end period was 9 months, and in the case of MERS, the end period was 3 years and 3 months.
In the case of Wuhan Pneumonia, which has just started, the number and speed of transmission of the infection seemed to have a long end period, but not a short one.
In the end, Jee-eun thought that there was no point in counting the death rate now.
At the beginning, only the number of infections is high and the number of deaths is small, so naturally, if we count now, the death rate will be low.
And it was common knowledge that the mortality rate at the end point would be an indicator of how much risk it actually had.
‘Ha, I’m nervous~.’
But even though she was wearing goggles and a dust mask, Ji-eun felt uneasy.
The number of confirmed cases, which was known to be around 145 during MERS, has already surpassed it a while ago.
The media reported that the number increased because of certain religious gatherings.
That was also true.
However, from Ji-eun’s point of view, there are more than 500 people including the religious group, and more than 200 people excluding the religious group.
It is true that there are many preachers in that religion, but even before that, it was already spreading rapidly.
Whether or not the religious issue was involved, this was already a serious problem.
When Jieun thought about it, everyone seemed busy shifting responsibility.
Jee-eun thought that it would be better if the state and religious organizations contributed to creating a better world through cooperation, rather than avoiding responsibility by blaming others for each other.
In addition, Gosichon had a high floating population and high population density.
After passing the civil service exam at the gosichon, Jee-eun was living with her own satisfaction in getting a rooftop room on a chartered basis and living in a better house.
It’s much better than the place where I used to study, and it’s a rooftop, and it’s not a partition, but it’s a normal house structure, so it’s better than other houses in soundproofing.
I was living thinking that it was okay, but an unexpected problem arose.
When considering it as a case of contagious disease, Ji-eun thought that this goshichon was also quite a dangerous area.
It was because there were many places where people entered in groups.
It could be said that the space itself, where people gather in groups, poses a certain level of danger, just as there are stories that the virus was infected in a religious meeting hall, bus, or something like that.
For example, when giving a lecture at an academy, there are times when more than 200 people gather in one lecture room.
The academy lecture was also a special final lecture with a large number of students taking the lecture for a long time, and I wondered what the civil service exam would be like with this trend.
The test site is also a place where many people gather, so I thought that there are cases where the test is postponed in places where there are relatively many corona confirmations by region.
Starting from the very large lecture halls of the academy to the small lecture halls, it seemed that the lecture halls where so many people could come could of course be the biggest corona transmission path.
However, not only in private academies, but in this gosichon, there were so many people in many facilities that it seemed that even one of them could become a real collective corona outbreak if they were mistaken.
Besides school…
A lot of people gather in the reading room.
A lot of people gather in the PC room.
A lot of people gather at the bar.
A place where so many people gather is now uneasy.
However, as of now, there seemed to be not much that individuals could cope with.
Washing your hands and wearing a mask, I could see this.
Also, I heard that viruses can live up to 10 days on doorknobs, etc., And generally 3 to 5 days…
In addition, it seems that facilities with a lot of people in a small scale like coin karaoke are also risky, and the main one seems to be a restaurant.
What everyone eats
In the case of food, it can be seen that the majority of people go out to buy and eat, whether it is daily or occasionally, so they will inevitably be in the same space as people there.
‘Let’s go home quickly.’
So, with the idea that a high school town with a lot of people could be a city with a certain amount of danger, Song Ji-eun took the things she had bought and took more steps toward her home.
