"Chronic deaths" during isolation of COVID-19

Recently, Omicron swept through Hefei, causing this city of ten million people to enter a state close to semi-shutdown. All day, you could see the so-called “Da Bai” (healthcare workers in protective suits) and countless ambulances outside. Similarly, on various social media platforms, there was a constant flow of information like “a certain community is under lockdown” or “residents of a certain building are being taken away in buses for quarantine.” Honestly, I used to think it was no big deal. After all, it’s been three years since the Covid-19 outbreak, and I hadn’t been infected yet (of course, even if I were infected, it wouldn’t be a big deal, as I have confidence in my body’s resistance). However, unfortunately, on October 24th, which is also “1024 Programmers’ Day,” I was required by the community to go into centralized quarantine. Initially, I was quite resistant, especially after seeing those terrible quarantine sites on the internet. I felt that staying there for a week without anyone to talk to, unable to go outside and move around… losing the freedom of a normal person, I would go crazy (of course, the reality is that I didn’t go crazy). But in the end, I found out that I was actually taken to a “four-star” hotel for quarantine. This instantly lifted my spirits quite a bit, after all, staying in this hotel normally costs 300-400 yuan per night, so this was a bit of a win…

Just when I was secretly pleased, I was informed that the meal cost had to be borne by myself. The standard was 40 yuan RMB per meal. At that moment, I thought 40 yuan should be able to get a pretty good meal, plus the hotel environment was not bad, so I felt it was okay. But in reality, the meals were really average, lunch and dinner might have a standard of 15 yuan, breakfast… well, I’d rather not say, you can see for yourselves:

Such average meals, for someone like me who insists on exercising every day, resulted in me looking much thinner after four days:

Fortunately, I, who was supposed to be quarantined for 7 days, was informed today that I could be released from quarantine after my nucleic acid test result (negative) came out!! Yes, I am now a Freeman!