Chapter 265 – Chapter 265. Coronavirus – 4
The news about the corona virus didn’t end as if it were infinite.
Jieun cleaned the refrigerator while listening to it.
There weren’t that many seats in the fridge.
It’s amazing too.
There’s just so much to eat and it’s not like that, so why isn’t there always that much space in the refrigerator?
And it looks like there aren’t enough seats, but why do they somehow go in even if they buy a bunch of things at the mart?
‘I’ll have to secure some more space.’
Jee-eun could see that there were many things in the refrigerator to throw away.
At first, Jieun opened the refrigerator door and squatted in front of it to check the items.
Then, as a little more time passed, she just sat comfortably and checked the food items by holding them in her hand one by one.
Disposable ketchup and pickles, curry powder, rib soup in packs, etc…
These guys took longer than expected.
The shelf life of pickles is about 2 months, and the expiration date of other things is long enough that you don’t have to worry about it for the time being.
And the ones pickled in soy sauce generally seemed to last a while.
For example pickled garlic.
Most of the side dishes smell of the taste after a while, but in the case of foods cooked with soy sauce, it seemed to last a little longer.
It wasn’t that there weren’t things to throw away.
In the refrigerator, friends who should be thrown away also appeared one after another.
The flour, which was packaged in a second plastic bag, was out of date.
With a rustle, he took out the white paper-wrapped flour from the plastic and put it down.
I thought I should throw away the tonkatsu sauce and salad sauce too.
When I buy food to eat something delicious, I also buy the sauce that goes with it.
However, there are many cases where the sauce is left over even when the food is finished.
Jee-eun put down the long plastic containers of sauce that she could normally buy out of the refrigerator.
– Tak, Tak…
‘What else is there?’
Next is perilla oil.
I brought it from home and put it in the refrigerator, but I didn’t have much use for it.
In addition, since the date is not marked, it seems that it has become a bit like that at some point.
Jieun opened the lid of the 500ml plastic water bottle filled with perilla oil.
Then the smell was no longer that of perilla oil. The old perilla oil smelled like rotten vinegar, and it seemed like it had to be thrown away.
Besides that, I took out more things that could be thrown away from among the things in the refrigerator.
Next, Jieun brought a box.
It was a box that I got when I bought 6 cup noodles last time.
Ji-eun put all her discarded items into the box and left the house with the box containing the discarded items.
Even at that moment, the news flowed from Ji-eun’s smartphone that she had put down next to the refrigerator.
-Amidst the closure of schools due to COVID-19, kindergarten, elementary, middle, high schools, and universities are all closed, a professor who said that graduate students have to go to work and work has risen to the cutting board. In a survey to improve the treatment of science and engineering students, 89% answered that they stayed for more than 8 hours a day, and among them, 10 to 12 hours were most often in the laboratory. According to the interview, it was revealed that the professor’s powerful authority, which holds things like job recommendation letters, abuses graduate students…
When Ji-eun heard the news, she took the box, opened the door, and left the house.
She took a box full of trash and went down the stairs to the first floor.
When I came down to the front of the building on the first floor, there was a separate collection point.
Ji-Eun Ji-eun meticulously classified the items she took out into food and plastic, paper and vinyl, etc., And threw them away.
People were passing by outside the door on the first floor.
The front door of the building where Jieun lived was a slightly decorated door, so I could see outside without opening it.
When she looked outside while sorting out, there were definitely fewer people.
And nine out of ten people walking around were wearing masks.
‘What the hell is this?’
The situation was rapidly changing for the worse.
At first, people rarely wore masks.
The news that many people were dying in Wuhan was reported, but there was a tendency to think that it was just a story from another country.
However, when the number of people infected with the virus jumped to the top of the world in an instant, people’s alertness also rose overwhelmingly.
Jieun himself was also amazed at the change in his perspective.
At first, I thought people wearing masks looked weird.
Early.
When about 10 people get infected?
At that time, getting the corona virus was almost a probability of winning the lottery, so I snorted.
However, when the number of infected exceeded hundreds and ran to thousands, I couldn’t be relieved anymore.
In particular, this corona virus, ironically, the symptoms of being asymptomatic were quite dangerous.
If an asymptomatic person spread the virus, there was no countermeasure.
According to one article, the maximum incubation period for this corona virus so far is 27 days, and there may be an incubation period beyond that.
Not only that, but some of the infected people can pass without any symptoms, just carrying the virus.
That’s what was dangerous.
What if a person with no incubation period or symptoms does not self-isolate and engages in social activities as usual, completely unaware that he or she has been infected with the virus?
It was only a matter of time before they spawned another infected.
Among those other infected people, there may be asymptomatic people.
So this time, it seemed that infection through asymptomatic people would be a big problem.
In addition, the virus that spread at a large religious gathering seemed to be more problematic because it was a closed gathering due to the religious nature of that side, and the possibility of asymptomatic people could exist and, due to the closed nature, they could try to avoid testing if possible.
‘Could there be a day in the real future when 40% to 70% of the world gets coronavirus?’
The material presented at Harvard has already become a fairly international article.
According to their announcement, the coronavirus will infect more people in the future, and people may suffer every winter.
From what I’ve seen so far, it’s not really an improbable story.
The number of infected people increased by the minute.
By +20% to +30% per day, the number of new confirmed cases was steadily increasing by adding from existing confirmed cases.
Something that seemed like something out of a zombie movie was happening in real life.
‘Let’s go in quickly.’
Jee-eun took care of the separate collection as quickly as possible, like a skilled factory employee sorting things, and then moved back to the stairs.
– Tak Tak Tak Tak Tak!
Climbing up the stairs quickly, Ji-eun came back into the house.
– Clap
After I came in and closed the door, I felt relieved that I had been blocked off from the virus.
“Whew.”
Ji-Eun was the type of person who had a lot of worries.
However, since most of the other people around her were all wearing masks and not moving because of the corona, and even schools were ordered to close, Ji-eun thought she should be more careful.
It was for that reason that I wrote the annual leave.
After Ji-eun came back into the house, she cleaned out the refrigerator, and then finished the rest.
All the streets to be collected were sorted out, and what was left to be sorted out were small things that could be put in general garbage bags.
The sound of the washing machine was heard while Ji-eun was cleaning up the remaining small trash.
-Ugh, uh-uh-.
Jieun liked spending time with cleaning and laundry as it seemed to loosen up her body a bit.
It’s comfortable if you don’t move your body, but when you actually move your body, there’s something refreshing and pleasant just like moving your body.
“I have to run the vacuum cleaner once…”
When Ji-eun went to the mart to pick up her little trash, she also picked up the receipt she received, but she crumpled it to throw it away.
Then, wanting to see something, she opened the receipt again.
Then, when he checked her receipt, Ji-eun was surprised.
“Kyaaak! What is this!”
Jieun was surprised for a moment, then she smiled as she looked at the receipt.
It was a laugh that meant she had been beaten.
“Put… Oh, ah.”
It must have been due to this corona virus crisis.
Jee Eun-eun, of course, knew the price of her products, which she usually bought once.
But she bought it similarly, but the price was ridiculously inflated.
The mart used the fact that people were trying to buy frozen food and other groceries for several days at a time due to the corona virus crisis, and raised the price of them.
The price of various products, including ham fried rice, chicken fried rice, ramen, and these things, went up by +20% to +30%.
“Oh my God. Most of the things I bought are very expensive.”
In terms of price, it may not seem like much of a difference.
However, in terms of percentage, the mart raised the price a lot.
Ji-eun just thought that was the case.
It was because I had to eat and live anyway, and I couldn’t stop eating just because it was a little more expensive.
And although she has written down her annual leave now, she is working as a civil servant, so unlike when she was a high school student, she doesn’t have to worry about food prices at all.
Still, I thought this was really great.
There are occasional heartwarming news stories of helping others with the corona virus, but in this way, movements to take advantage of the corona could be found everywhere.
I wondered what the difference between buying a mask and buying a mask at a mart that goes up in price by tens of percent.
There was news that a gang of people who were trying to buy masks and sell them for 1.4 billion was arrested, and if they sell groceries in a huge number of places nationwide and make tens of percent more profit, it seemed that the profits from groceries would be enormously greater than masks.
“Doesn’t the mart take something like this… Opportunism is a jackpot.”
Ji-eun was amazed at this opportunism and cleaned up.
I usually live by organizing my own things, but as I made up my mind and cleaned like this, things to be cleaned stood out everywhere.
After cleaning, Ji-eun, who had made the house environment even cleaner in the previously clean house, came to the bed.
The washing machine was still running.
-Ugh, uh-uh-.
After Jee-eun finished her cleaning, she picked up her phone again and looked for something she could see.
Then, she discovered a broadcast that strongly intrigued her.
“Uh, are we discussing today?”
It was like a discussion on a TV program.
The discussion broadcast seemed to be just starting, and Ji-eun found it interesting because both the ruling party and the opposition party criticizing the government participated in the discussion and exchanged opinions. Because it was
In the case of general news, since it is announced from the position of the media company, in a way, you can hear one side of the story on the side of the media company.
However, I felt that if I listened to both sides of the story instead of just one side, I would be able to hear more information.
– Hello viewers. As we announced, we will have time to share stories with former lawmakers Kim Jwa-Ik and Lee Woo-Pan in today’s discussion.
The moderator first took a close-up and introduced both camps.
And we greeted each other.
-Hello.
-Hello.
Ji-eun lay down, covered herself with a blanket, and watched the broadcast with her cell phone.
As many people are currently interested in, the coronavirus is a global issue that transcends the nation, so Jieun wanted to hear from them as well.
