Lockdown Essentials You Actually Need

Mina Yan | Jun 18, 2022 6:14 pm | 3 comments | 339 reads

If your compound isn’t locked down, you’re one of the lucky ones. Yours truly, on the other hand, is not quite as lucky.

Earlier this week, in the middle of the day, my compound announced that we’d be locked down “for a while”. It’s been two days already and we still haven’t been told how long we’d be stuck at home. But that’s not the point of this post…

As soon as the lockdown was announced, residents were notified in any way they could be reached. A quick call from the community management company to inquire about whether there were elderly residents, pregnant women, anyone who might need special medication, or pets, and the door was officially closed.

So, as I buckle down for an unknown period of time at home, here are a few lockdown essentials that have helped me give me a relatively relaxed time at home.

Noise Cancelling Headphone

Get yourself a pair. With a toddler who’s constantly running around and screaming at home, it gets pretty difficult to concentrate on work. These have really come in handy recently.

Streaming Services

Whether it’s learning how to use iQiyi or Pumpkin Movies, get yourself some good entertainment. A WeChat service called MyPengYou can hook you up with Netflix, Hulu, Disney+, HBO without you having to use an overseas credit card. They speak English and payment is done over WeChat.

To get in touch with MyPengYou, add them on WeChat at MYPENGYOU1

Delivery Apps

Lockdown doesn’t necessarily mean you won’t have access to things outside your apartment. In the case of my compound’s lockdown, waimai and kuaidi deliveries are still coming in. So to make it easy on your stress level, learn to use the delivery apps so you can get all your favorite foods and essentials.

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BauLuo's picture BauLuo Submitted by Guest on Mon, 06/20/2022 - 11:24

Giovanni Martini]</p> <p>I already done toll ya, I jus wanna grow me and my family some vegebles, grow me some chickens an goats, trade fairly and squarely, read the scriptures, sing a few hymns, scrutinize Malcolm Lowry, and etc. Sumptin wrong wit dat. ?</p> <p> </p> <p>Alarms are going off in dozens federal Yank police agencies, Mr. Randy Weaver II. If even one Euroblood is isolatin', that's 'cause he's white-supremacizin.' If you scrambled the whole hornet's nest of acronyms you stirred up, you'd have a big bowl of alphabet soup. Enough to feed you for a week in next stop: Florence Supermax.</p> <p>[quote=BauLuo wrote:

My lockdown essentials: a bike, a tent, a foamy, three tins of compressed gas (easily acquired on Taobao), simple one burner campstove, camping pot and pan, and 3 km ride to the countryside. Might be more difficult in Shanghai or Beijing, but works anywhere that I have lived in the past eight years. Bye, bye, see you in a few weeks.

Alarms are going off in dozens federal Yank police agencies, Mr. Randy Weaver II. If even one Euroblood is isolatin', that's 'cause he's white-supremacizin.' If you scrambled the whole hornet's nest of acronyms you stirred up, you'd have a big bowl of alphabet soup. Enough to feed you for a week in next stop: Florence Supermax

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

BauLuo's picture BauLuo Submitted by Guest on Sun, 06/19/2022 - 23:01

Giovanni Martini wrote:
BauLuo wrote:

My lockdown essentials: a bike, a tent, a foamy, three tins of compressed gas (easily acquired on Taobao), simple one burner campstove, camping pot and pan, and 3 km ride to the countryside. Might be more difficult in Shanghai or Beijing, but works anywhere that I have lived in the past eight years. Bye, bye, see you in a few weeks.

Why waste money like that? I hear Australia has COVID camps where you get all that stuff. Kind of like Adjustment For the Attitudinally Impaired. "Vaccinate or Vegetate!"

Yah, but that would be THERE space, not MY space. And that really is what makes all the difference for me contrarians. Jus give me an acre or 20,000 of my own that ya can't f*ck with, an leave me alone. Don't worry, I won't ask guvment or health services for not a rusty stick. You toodle on yer way.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

BauLuo's picture BauLuo Submitted by Guest on Sun, 06/19/2022 - 08:21

My lockdown essentials: a bike, a tent, a foamy, three tins of compressed gas (easily acquired on Taobao), simple one burner campstove, camping pot and pan, and 3 km ride to the countryside. Might be more difficult in Shanghai or Beijing, but works anywhere that I have lived in the past eight years. Bye, bye, see you in a few weeks.

I am Doktor Aethelwise Snapdragoon.

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