Today, December 27, 2021, on this day in history, Dr. Zhang Jixian was the first to report the epidemic.
She is the director of the Department of Respiratory Medicine of Hubei Provincial Hospital of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine.
As a result, she became the "first person to report the epidemic", a real whistleblower.
(This is Dr. Zhang Jixian, picture from China Civilization Network)
As early as 2003, when fighting SARS, Zhang Jixian, then 37 years old, was a member of the Jianghan District expert group and was responsible for checking suspects in various hospitals.
"On December 27, 2019, she first reported three suspicious cases for treatment, sounded a loud clarion call for the epidemic prevention and control battle, and took timely and effective prevention and control measures for China, successfully broke the chain of virus transmission, and avoided the anti-epidemic results of hundreds of thousands of infections, winning valuable time."
I thought it was all common sense, but in fact, there are many people who don't know. Today, the Internet is full of all kinds of hot topics, all kinds of hype debates, cheap commercial movies are bragging, tearing society apart, and the real hot-blooded heroes are rarely mentioned.
Heroes since ancient times are lonely.
As of today, it's only been two years.
A netizen left a message saying: "The people who really should be remembered are only because they can't eat blood steamed buns, there is no traffic, and some people choose to turn a blind eye." ”
My heart was filled with indignation and turned to sorrow.
Another example, which deeply alarmed me, is how easily history is distorted.
In a CERTAIN TV series, there is such a dialogue: "The people who sign up are all gay men, is it also a female gay." ”
I was stunned. What kind of screenwriter is this creating? He dared to speak blindly in front of the people of the whole country with his eyes open.
Without those videos, reports, and news records, the birth and death of female compatriots would have been reversed.
Review the history of Wuhan's fight against the epidemic last year. So many volunteers, so many female nurses and doctors, so many people are working hard to save Wuhan and keep China. And all this happened when the world plague spread.
I'm especially thankful that I started writing at the same time when the pandemic broke out. Record the truest history for the first time.
The merits of Dr. Zhang Jixian, I wrote in black and white in the book.
There are many more female doctors, female nurses, and so many ordinary heroes, hidden in the crowd. They are the ones who give us strength and comfort as we grieve as we hold out. Ordinary people do ordinary and small things, but at this stage a huge burst of energy gives us a kind of comfort, and the feeling of darkness is dispelled.
After experiencing the epidemic first-hand, I was shocked by the huge social forces and moved by countless heroic stories. I made up my mind to change from a writer who used to be alone and single-mindedly writing behind closed doors, to writing that takes into account social practice.
The COVID-19 sniper war is a great cause that we have created Chinese, but how many people understand and understand the twists and turns?
Remember this history, for those who fell in the cold of the spring, but also for those who fought hard. When future generations want to understand the fight against the epidemic and check the information, our heroes, especially the heroes, will not be obscured.
It's not enough to say it once, so talk about it again. Over and over again, keep talking, keep calling. Even if the hoarseness is exhausted.
In addition to writing the book Wang Yong, an advanced individual in the fight against the epidemic, and "Life Ferryman", I continue to make records.
In this year's special report of Hubei Satellite TV, the reporter found me and hoped that I would tell this story. I repeatedly recommended the female nurse Zhao Juan in the book, and I must interview her and let her appear on camera.
I wrote about her during the pandemic at the time and couldn't see her.
Her face should be remembered.
I told the interview reporter of Beijing Youth Daily about the deeds of my friends who helped me and wrote them in the report.
I wrote down Chen Sheng, a street office worker who picked up more than a thousand patients in Optics Valley, and wrote about it in the magazine "China Youth".
I wrote down Hu Hui, the head nurse of the Infection Department of Zhongnan Hospital, who participated in the fight against the epidemic at Leishenshan Hospital. It was written in the magazine "Wind Flow Generation", an organ of the Youth League Committee of Jiangsu Province.
Too many stories, too many people, it's a writing task that can never be recorded, but I'm willing to keep writing. With the power of a snail, fight against the wear and tear of time.
Just yesterday, I also found an excellent post-90s volunteer leader, his name is Huang Bowen, his story, I slowly recorded it.
Writing anti-epidemic books, there is no best-selling, but still continue to write down, write the stories of these people, there is no good reward, but still continue to record them.
If we, the writers who have experienced it, do not write this down, the heroes will be forgotten and history will be distorted.
Finally, I just want to say that, as part of the national memory, please forward.
"Life Ferryman" by Shen Jiake People's Daily Publishing House, May 2020