Masks must become the most important symbols of 2020. / Figureworm Creative
These ten scenes in 2020 represent our determination to witness the present and the declaration of not wasting this era.
2020 is an extraordinarily long and heavy year.
Some people bumped head-on with the surging epidemic at the beginning of the year, and some people moved out of rented houses at the end of the year against the cold wind.
We endure the passing of a generation of spiritual icons such as Kobe Bryant and Maradona, and continue to witness the soft kindness of countless ordinary people from reality and the Internet.
All press the pause button in 2020 to reorganize their lives and become witnesses, witnesses and participants in this special year. The future has repeatedly demonstrated its uncertainty, and it has also continuously tempered our strong nerves in life.
Looking back at 2020, in the folded time network map, we have dusted out ten memorable live pictures, which are engraved on the ruler of 2020 in different forms, and write about this era.
They also represent our determination to witness the present and the declaration not to waste this era.
Sunset under the epidemic
Source: The official microblog of Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Fudan University in Shanghai
The elderly and medical care next to each other in the sunset are the first heart-warming pictures in 2020.
On March 5, while escorting an 87-year-old patient for CT examination, Dr. Liu Kai, a member of the Hubei medical team supported by the Zhongshan Hospital affiliated to Shanghai Fudan University, in the East Courtyard of Wuhan University People's Hospital, and Mr. Lao enjoyed a sunset for a long time.
The sunset slowly fell, an old man and a young man stopped under the sunset, looked up, and the warm afterglow was evenly spread on the doctor's heavy protective clothing and the old man's long-lost smiling face.
The two stayed for three or four minutes, "What do you think?" Liu Kai asked the old gentleman, who replied: "The sunset is quite good." ”
According to the surging news, the 87-year-old gentleman was in a very poor state when he was just hospitalized, lying on the bed sheet all day and unable to turn over, his brain could not remember things, and he was incontinent. After the medical treatment and care of the two medical teams supporting Hubei in Shanghai and Sichuan, the old man's body slowly recovered and his mood gradually became cheerful.
Since being admitted to the hospital on February 11, the elderly have not seen the sun for more than a month, and doctors rarely have time to see the sunset in continuous and high-intensity work.
This sunset with residual warmth gave them a little comfort in pain and fatigue, and also allowed netizens who saw this picture to dispel the haze of the past few days and alleviate the long-term depression.
The days of fear, blindness, bravery and pain will always pass and will eventually be forgotten, but the sunset at that moment will remain forever in the heart of the patient and the doctor.
Wuhan unsealed
After the unsealing, the people of Wuhan were calmer than we thought. /Figureworm Creative
A new crown epidemic has made Wuhan a real hero city.
As the first city in China to discover the new crown virus, in order to avoid the spread of the epidemic to the whole country and even overseas, Wuhan announced a lockdown in the early morning of January 23.
14 million ordinary Wuhan people are "trapped" in the city, gritting their teeth and holding on, waiting for the epidemic storm to sweep through as soon as possible.
People outside of Wuhan may never be able to appreciate what wuhan people went through during those 76 days of closure.
We can only learn about the ordinary Wuhan citizens who are waiting for beds one by one through the flood of information like a broken embankment on the Internet; and seeing a wave of medical workers, volunteers and migrant workers who are going against the grain...
At 00:00 on April 8, Wuhan was unsealed, and the city was on the track of restart. The people of Wuhan calmly, even somewhat numbly, accepted all this, and countless true, sad, and sincere emotions were slowly evaporated.
Just like the old man who played "Katyusha" on the accordion on the cold streets at night, the continuous epidemic cannot destroy humanity, and people's deep compassion, faith, and care are polished by the plight.
Between the lockdown and the unsealing, Wuhan is as depicted in the novel "The Couple Who Contracted marriage", "Someone leans out of the window and prays with the crowd, and can also hear whispers and sobs, mixed with sighs that are half sad and half comforting." ”
Dr. Tao Yong was injured
Dr. Tao Yong faced the public for the first time after his injury.
In 2020, the white giant tower was rebuilt in the hearts of the people.
On January 20, coinciding with the outbreak of the epidemic in China, a violent incident of injuring doctors occurred in Beijing Chaoyang Hospital.
When Tao Yong, an ophthalmologist, was killed by a patient who had been rescued, resulting in a fracture of the left hand, a ruptured neurological vessel, a skull trauma, a fracture of the occipital bone, and a blood loss of 1500 ml, after about seven hours of surgery and two weeks of ICU treatment, it was out of danger of life.
Previously, he was one of the few ophthalmologists in China to specialize in uveitis, and his research field was of great pioneering significance in the industry. He is also a doctor who has always been on the front line, and has performed about 15,000 surgeries in his medical career, bringing light back to countless patients, and often exempting patients from medical expenses.
Then, because of the patient who "took revenge", Tao Yong may never be able to perform clinical surgery in the future.
But the pain and grief on the hospital bed did not destroy Tao Yong, and after receiving the concerns, encouragement and blessings from many netizens, he began to rethink his relationship with patients and turned his tears into a more determined mission to practice medicine.
After being discharged from the hospital, Tao Yong continued his scientific research work, wrote the book "Clinical Application of Intraocular Fluid Testing", and actively promoted the promulgation of the "Regulations on the Management of Safety and Order in Beijing Hospitals", and since July 1 this year, all hospitals in Beijing will establish a security inspection system.
In recent years, doctor-patient conflicts have occurred from time to time, and Tao Yong's injury case has once again questioned us: it is urgent to create an environment for medical staff to practice medicine with peace of mind and mutual trust between doctors and patients.
Doctors are heroes in the red dust, but they are also ordinary people.
Say goodbye to idols
Pictures of the scene of Kobe's crash. /TMZ Sports
Bryant's sudden death has made the spring festival the most difficult in history worse; maradona's departure at the end of November has made people's desire to restart 2020 even stronger.
The "Black Mamba" in the No. 24 suit became the tears of the times in a sudden way. Fans around the world mourn his fall on social networks.
But the Mamba spirit of "never give up, endure humiliation, and create miracles in suffering" has been passed down forever, "Have you ever seen Los Angeles at four o'clock in the morning?" "Became the motto of his life's work.
The mourning of the post-90s may be more for Kobe, but the tears of the father's generation are more for Maradona.
On November 25, Maradona, who had just celebrated her 60th birthday, died of acute pulmonary edema caused by chronic heart failure.
This child, who grew up in the slums of Buenos Aires, has gradually become a national icon and spiritual symbol of Argentina, bringing the economically depressed and politically defeated Argentina to the top of the world and bringing irreplaceable happiness to the people of all third world countries.
But as Argentinian professional basketball player Scola says, there will never be a maradona.
Kobe Bryant and Maradona once represented the beautiful yearning of human beings across cultures, races, classes and ideologies, and now with their successive deaths, this yearning has all become the sadness and sorrow in people's hearts.
Online lessons in the mountains
Yang Xiuhua, a Sichuan girl, took an online lesson on the edge of the cliff.
The epidemic has caused countless people to lose their jobs, but it has also given birth to many new industries, and online education is one of them.
Since February this year, primary and secondary school students across the country have begun to shift their classrooms from classrooms to their homes.
But when urban children lie in the warmth of their homes to take online lessons, many children in the mountains have to study outdoors in the cold because they do not have "Internet freedom".
Yang Xiuhua, a high school student at Sichuan Guangyuan Wangcang Middle School, whose home is in the countryside and has no network signal, can only climb to the top of the mountain every day to rub the network to learn.
Srimbazhen, an 18-year-old Tibetan girl, climbs snow-capped mountains for four hours a day to find a place with a strong signal to take online lessons.
The father of Xiangyang girl Gao Bingying set up a simple tent with branches and plastic sheets on the top of the mountain, set up tables and chairs, and reluctantly set up a "classroom" for his daughter.
A few of these children in the mountains can let the outside world know their situation through the media and the Internet and help them get out of their predicament, but many more children may become the majority in silence and not even have the opportunity to be seen.
A small online course reflects the shortcomings of education in China's backward areas.
Is the rapidly advancing technology narrowing the gap between people or widening the gap between people? In this era of rush forward, on the edge of that stormy cliff, this is a question worth pondering.
California wildfires
California wildfires. /Wikipedia
After the pandemic that swept across the globe in the first half of 2020, many people already felt that it was hard to see anything that could shock them — until early September, when they saw the apocalyptic scene caused by the california wildfires.
The orange sky, the dark silhouette of the building and the illuminated lights on the mosaic buildings, the red taillights of a long line of cars stranded on the highway...
In Blade Runner 2049, released two years ago, the dusky, desperate, eerie scene in the lens of cinematographer Roger Deakins seems to redefine the aesthetic of doomsday. People at that time could never have imagined that such a scene could come to them so truly.
Wildfires on the west coast of the United States, from Oregon, all the way to California. Wildfires are a common sight in the dry season, but they have become increasingly difficult to control in the past two years. The scattered and disappeared California does not seem to be an illusory hypothesis.
On various social networks such as Instagram, people are excitedly sharing the apocalyptic scenes that are only found in the movie, and seem to have forgotten that the protagonists in this "pseudo-apocalypse" are themselves.
Many years from now, history books may record that in September 2020, the California wildfires lasted for several days, and the huge amount of smoke and dust caused an eerie doomsday scene. In California, the world's sixth-largest economy, people conquered by the doomsday scene have picked up their phones — and people want to share themselves more than protecting the environment.
Theaters resume work
Cinemas waiting to resume work. / New Weekly Outsider
In 2019, the box office of the Spring Festival file was 6.889 billion yuan. At the beginning of 2020, several movies that are ready to "fight" in the Spring Festival slot continue to release materials, invite, or stimulate people to continue to walk into the theater on the first day of the New Year and create another "Spring Festival miracle".
In the two years of rapid expansion of China's cinema line, the Spring Festival film box office accounted for one-third or more of the cinemas in many third-tier cities – so in the early spring of the sudden outbreak of the epidemic, the cinema line was the industry that was hit the hardest.
At the end of April and the beginning of May, various industries across the country resumed work and production, and we could see lively restaurants, crowded shopping malls, bustling scenic spots, and still empty movie theaters.
People keep asking, when will the cinema open? There is constant news that cinemas are about to open.
The time to announce the resumption of work in the theater is mid-July. On July 20, the cinema was finally able to resume work, which seemed to be a sign that "we are finally back to normal life".
However, the impact of the epidemic is still not over, and many blockbusters choose to postpone the change of file or broadcast on the Internet. In the six months when domestic blockbusters and Hollywood blockbusters are basically absent, there is still a longer way to go to the "blood return" road of the theater.
Jia Zhangke bid farewell to Pingyao
"Movies are never lonely." /@White Song
"In the four years I've been running a film festival, I've hardly seen a movie here!"
On October 18 this year, the penultimate day of the 4th Pingyao International Film Festival, Jia Zhangke was interviewed by reporters and announced that he and his team would withdraw from the Pingyao Film Festival and return the film festival to the pingyao local government.
"It is very urgent to let the Pingyao International Film Festival get rid of Jia Zhangke's shadow and let it gain independent vitality." Therefore, we choose to leave when it is strong. ”
At next year's Pingyao Film Festival, Jia Kechang will no longer work with his wife Zhao Tao to stand on the red carpet of the opening ceremony to welcome the arrival of filmmakers from all over the world, and the jia Zhangke color of the Pingyao Film Festival will also be slowly diluted.
Leaving Jia Zhangke's Pingyao Film Festival, where will we go next, we can't predict for the time being. But looking around, it seems that it is not so lonely: the rising reputation of the FIRST Youth Film Festival, the influential Shanghai International Film Festival, the little by little change of the Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival, etc., people chase light and shadow, light and shadow to find the audience, have not stopped.
Perhaps, the future Pingyao Film Festival will undergo changes of one kind or another, but the efforts made by Jia Zhangke are destined to be indelible.
The delivery man saved people from the sea of fire
In our city, there can be no bankers, talk show actors, and media reporters for a day, but we can't go a day without sanitation workers, couriers, takeaway workers and other grassroots workers.
Among them, the takeaway staff is like the blood of the city, silently maintaining the normal operation of society during the epidemic. At the most dangerous times, they shuttle through the deserted streets, delivering masks, medicines, and food to every citizen who is isolated at home.
But the importance of their work has not received enough attention.
On September 8, an in-depth report of "People" "Takeaway Riders, Trapped in the System" spread throughout the Internet, and the author showed us the survival of takeaway riders through nearly half a year of investigation and interview, and came to a clear but always infuriating conclusion: capital eats people.
Through big data and algorithms, the platform arbitrarily squeezes the delivery time of takeaway workers and passes on operational risks, resulting in a high number of traffic accidents encountered by takeaway riders in recent years, and takeaway workers have become a high-risk occupation.
Capital squeezes people unscrupulously, but every tiny individual can watch over and help.
On November 15, a blue-clad takeaway in Dalian, Liaoning Province, was tripped by a steel wire dragged by a tanker truck, hit the bridge pier and fell unconscious, and Xiao Zhang, a yellow-clad takeaway in the rear, saw it and rushed into the fire to drag him out.
Xiao Zhang said in an interview with the media that even if he is burned, he must save people, otherwise he will not go in this life.
Algorithms are ruthless and sentient, and capital traps every worker in the cage of the system, but the back of this resolute rush to the sea of fire tells us that there is also warmth outside the system.
Exploring space
Chang'e-5 was launched. / Figureworm Creative
In the early morning of August 3, Beijing time, after completing the mission of staying on the International Space Station for more than two months, the Dragon spacecraft of the United States SpaceX Company splashed on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico, and the first commercial manned spaceflight in history was declared successful, reaching a dual innovation at the technical level and business model level.
On November 10, the Chinese "Strivers" all-sea deep manned submersible set a new record of 10,909 meters of Chinese manned deep diving in the second phase of the sea trial in the Mariana Trench.
Half a month later, on the 24th, at the Wenchang Cosmodrome in Hainan, the Long March 5 rocket rumbled off with the Chang'e-5 probe, and the purpose of this trip was to the moon thousands of miles away. On November 28, Chang'e 5 successfully entered the orbit around the moon.
On December 1, Chang'e 5 successfully landed on the lunar surface, and then completed the key task of automatic sampling and encapsulation of the lunar surface. Soon after, it will fly back to Earth with samples taken on the lunar surface for further study by researchers.
"Blue sea, blue sky and night heart, a thousand years to see the People of Shenzhou", the Chang'e-5 probe on the surface of the moon, leaving a five-star red flag for the lonely Chang'e.
"Whether it is on earth or in heaven, and then in order to seek a new land and go to the universe, what realm will the realm of humanity be allowed to expand into?"
This is a classic question in the movie "Wang Li Cosmic Army", even in such a difficult year, we still have not given up the curiosity to face the unknown and the courage to continue to explore, which is precisely the most valuable quality on which human beings have come to this day.
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