Perth Diary 301st: The Three-Year Epidemic I Have Experienced

I have done two nucleic acid tests throughout the epidemic, one in 2022 to board the plane from Manila to Australia, and the other in an isolation hotel in Australia to end the isolation.

The three-year epidemic has really restricted my feet, and I can't go out for only one week. After landing in Perth, Australia, I was quarantined in a hotel.

A total of three injections of Pfizer were given, two injections were given in Malapasuca Island, Philippines, and one injection was given in Baguio, Philippines. After each injection, I went for a run, so there should be no sequelae.

Saying this is not to seek a sense of superiority compared with others, but to objectively describe what I have experienced.

My last departure was in October 2019, so I was already in the Philippines when the pandemic started.

In January 2020, my wife took a one-month family leave to come to the Philippines to find me for vacation, and by the way, I took the IELTS test in the Philippines.

The epidemic began to show its signs in January, and my wife's vacation was coming to an end, but at that time we had already decided to go to New Zealand to study, so I tried my best to persuade her to stay, because I didn't want to see any extra problems, based on my understanding of the current situation in China I understand that this will definitely bring about the closure of the border. This level may be forever. Even if it is only ten years, we will not have another ten years of youth to wait for.

But my wife still couldn't give up everything about herself for an illusory goal, and she couldn't give up her stable job in China. Finally, under the pressure of the unit's leaders, she bought a ticket to return to China.

After many quarrels, I said to my wife: 'If you have no chance to go abroad in the future, you have to learn to pay the price for today's decision, and I will not give up my freedom because of marriage. '

This separation, as I expected, did not meet again for two years.

I didn't think it would take so long, nor did I think how my life would change during the epidemic.

After seeing off my wife's plane in mid-February, I decided to travel as much as possible in the Philippines.

So I have this piece of my running account diary.

I went to el nido, Palawan, met a Danish girl, and on the day I returned to Cebu, I followed her to the Malapasuca isalnd, commonly known as Mama Island by the Chinese.

A two-week island tour: Palawan, Mom Pai Loofah and Coron

An island that changed the trajectory of my life and the course of my thoughts, a place that gave me a second life.

After a week of contact, I was amazed by the primitiveness of this small island. This is a place suitable for my childhood in an isolated island, so I decided to go back to Mint immediately to pack my equipment and come back to feel the charm of isolated island camping.

On March 11, 2020, I set foot on the small island again. On March 12, when I went fishing in the sea, my whole body became inflamed and unable to move. Immediately afterwards, the entire territory of the Philippines entered a state of disaster on March 17, and various cities and islands were closed and controlled.

And my imagined 2-week camping life on an isolated island has completely turned into an island survival diary.

My luck lies in the fact that I am stationed alone on the northern beach, facing the boundless sea and white sand every day, and everyone else is confined at home. Only fishermen can go fishing for their livelihood after applying for a fishing license. Survive, everyone else can't leave the house.

So even in the first three months when the global epidemic was the worst, I was not strictly banned. I applied for a fishing license and could go fishing in the sea. The beach is my back garden, because it is my back garden when I open the tent.

I run on the beach every day and use sand buckets to assemble my own fitness equipment. Apart from sports, my daily life is fishing and thinking.

Because I know that it is inevitable that the epidemic will spread to the island, and the only thing I can do is to strengthen my immunity as much as possible. This is the only weight in my hands. What kind of catastrophic consequences will be caused on the island is unknown beyond my control.

If this day comes, as long as I prepare as best I can, there will be no regrets.

81 Days of Island Camping

Three months later, the ban on the island was lifted and it was possible to leave the island. At that time, foreign tourists on the island fled one after another, and were picked up by chartered flights from their respective countries.

At that time, the only other Chinese girl on the island sent me a message, saying that she had found a way to return home at the embassy, and asked if I wanted to come together, but I refused.

So many of my readers thought that I was trapped on the island for two years, but it was not. This is my own choice. Freedom is what I am looking for. Material things, life and death diseases cannot be compared with it.

The rest of my life was just like what I had recorded in my diary. After sublimating my thoughts, I went to volunteer with cats and dogs for two months, and then worked on the island for the next year or less. Environmental Engineering.

A small island isolated from the rest of the world is like a small boat far away from the land and the city, yet it is also a safe place outside the world.

Many friends would also persuade me to leave and go to Cebu and Manila, but I hated the hustle and bustle of the city and did not make the trip. I would occasionally go to Cebu to buy some paint and painting tools for my environmental protection projects, even though I often The Bohol Island where I stayed was only two hours away by boat from Cebu, and I never thought of going back. During those two years, what I did on Mama Island gave me a greater sense of belonging.

Living on the island for nearly two years has allowed me to see through the portrayal of human nature in the worst living environment. This is what I learned from my father in China, and I never thought of provoking a struggle against human nature. , just three months of camp life gave me hope, courage and energy to make my change.

The two-year environmental protection project, in general, is a process in which I use my blood to fight against the old ideas inherent in the island. It is a period of time when I use my dreams to fight against human nature. The experience of these days has given me a deeper understanding of human nature. , It’s just that my transformation began to want to change something on my own. Even though my project failed in the eyes of many people, it gave me more energy and sought other ways to make changes. That is, I was in Australia want to do.

The two-year epidemic on the island made life so difficult that most of the labor force on the island left the small island to seek a job in a big city. Only more old and weak women and children were left on the island, close to their mothers Positive cases were occasionally reported in Daanbantayan City on the island, and there was once a case on the island, so that the military and police landed on the island, and the case's residence was surrounded by water.

But generally speaking, in the past two years, the movement of people on the island has not been restricted, and even wearing masks is rare.

Until one and a half years later, before I was about to leave the island, a case was quietly transmitted on the island, but at this time, most people had already been vaccinated, and I also had two shots of the Pfizer vaccine, so everyone had a fever and symptoms , are quietly recuperating at home, and I have been living in a big resort, I didn't know that no one came out on the street of the small town two minutes away, but fortunately, after a week, everyone who was infected has recovered back to normal.

In the past two years, I have always insisted on running, fitness and tennis, using the only effective way I think to resist. Even if the canteen lady who goes to business every day is sick, I am fine.

It can be said that the epidemic did not bring me troubles in my life on the island, but the environmental protection projects I voluntarily chose brought me countless difficulties in persevering and suffering from slander from others.

Finally, after I realized that I think it is not realistic to use my life for the next few decades to transform the ideology of the islanders, or that I can choose other more valuable ways of using life, I decided to leave, just in the Find a time and opportunity to leave.

In the storm, the island that is difficult to leave again

During this period, my wife and I kept in touch, the separation of space contributed to my growth, and under the pressure of the desire for reunion, it also forced her to release her potential. After receiving many offers, we chose Australia, where the border was first opened, and Perth University of Western Australia, where the IELTS score was still valid, considering the time limit for the opening of the border.

I had to arrive at Baguio for a physical examination at the stipulated time, but I couldn’t go out to sea because of the waves. By chance, I left the island by helicopter. It was a special farewell to my mother’s fate. I will be back again.

The twists and turns of Baguio's health checkup

After leaving the island, I found out that the Philippines under the control of the epidemic has many restrictions. I have to be thankful that I am at the most difficult node in the world, retreating and practicing in a quiet place, fighting with myself and others, but I have not fought against the virus.

After leaving customs, I experienced the last month of Filipino life in Baguio. Due to the large number of powerful people in Baguio, the management is more civilized. Play tennis.

The 34-year-old was born again in Australia

Then we came to Perth, Western Australia on February 4, 2022. Life here has gradually entered a normal state with the opening of the border. Although some places still need to wear masks and scan codes to record visits, in general, There are not many personal restrictions, except for the first week of hotel quarantine, but the government also paid nearly 2,000 Australian dollars in compensation. Even more than I spent.

An important criterion for a mature person, a mature system, and a mature government is how much time it takes to face reality, accept reality, and make truly valuable decisions and actions based on reality.

Instead of choosing to accept reality when you are forced by your own decision to be unable to continue, because the sooner you turn the rudder, the sooner you enter the correct route.

Personally speaking, the creed of your life will guide your life state, but the creed of life can be divided into right and wrong. Some things need a long time of life experience to realize, or find out from the theories of sages. There are clues, and the identification of correct beliefs requires a clear and logical judgment ability. After identification, you need to force yourself to execute rationally, so that it is possible to move your life in the right direction.

The most important thing in my credo in life has always been 'freedom', so I have been bathed in a free living environment for the past three years, and even when my survival is facing challenges, I still stick to this belief, so I am free.

Going back to the current situation of the epidemic in China, people have no power to fight back against the natural process. Some people complain that the freedom of others makes the economic situation worse, but they have no vision to think that the final bankruptcy of the economy will make everyone unable to survive. It's what everyone doesn't want to see.

Freedom is everyone's right. You choose to stay at home and not go out to work. It is your personal right, but you have no right to ask others to starve to death at home, just like others have no right to ask you to do so.

An epidemic has distinguished people with different attitudes towards life. Some people use optimism to breed development, and some people wait to die in pessimism. The epidemic will eventually end. Difficulties make some people grow up, and those who were once lucky return to the starting point.

The fairness of the epidemic lies in the fact that it hits everyone indiscriminately, giving mankind an irreversible natural evolution, allowing some people to learn to think, and let others choose to be depressed.

Difficulties in life are different, come at different times, and have different degrees of strength, but everyone's greatest difficulties will always come as promised before we are alive.

The epidemic is like a difficulty, and it will eventually pass. The important thing is what we have learned in this challenge, whether freedom is important, or physical health is important, or sticking to our previous beliefs is the most important.

Even if life can't go back to the past, it still has to go on, and you have to choose a correct direction for this continuation.