Aifen Island
Video Game, 2020
Aifen Island is a virtual island space floating on the internet where players can communicate.
The Pumice on the Sea recorded an important news story about the early days of COVID-19 in various languages.
News related to this event was gradually erased from the web in China.
Players who visited this space voluntarily uploaded recordings of their reading of the text in this space.
On 18 December 2019, Ai came into contact with the first case of pulmonary infection, showing " multiple patchy blurry shadows scattered in lungs".
On December 27, she received the second patient, but this person had no history of contact with the South China Seafood Market.
In the afternoon of 30 December, the test result of the second patient showed infection with a coronavirus.
When she saw the words "SARS coronavirus, pseudomonas aeruginosa, 46 types of oral / respiratory colonization bacteria" on the test sheet.
Ai immediately reported to the hospital's public health department and infection department, and spread it throughout medical circles over WeChat in Wuhan.
On the afternoon of the same day, Wenliang, Li, an ophthalmologist at the same hospital with Ai, Li sent a warning to former classmates over WeChat, which was reposted publicly in large numbers.
At 10:20 in the evening of the same day, the Wuhan Municipal Health Commission sent a notice to the effect that:
Regarding pneumonia of unknown cause,
do not release it to the public to avoid panic among the masses; If panic is caused by information leakage, the leaker must be held accountable.
On 1 January 2020, Ai again reported to the hospital's public health department and medical office the news of the admission of multiple patients by a clinic owner near the South China Seafood Market, hoping to attract attention.
Afterward, Ai was interviewed by the hospital's supervision department, and said that she had suffered "unprecedented and very severe rebuke".
On March 10, China's "People" magazine published its March article "The Whistle man" on the Internet, which described Ai Fen's experience through an interview and called her "the Whistle man".
However, the original report on the WeChat official account of the journal was deleted before noon, and the mainland Chinese media that forwarded the article also deleted the article.
Protesting against the censorship, Chinese Internet users started to pass the article through means such as braille, emoji, Morse code and seal script. It has also been translated into English, German, Japanese, elven runes, and the same format as sequences of DNA.
Aifen said in a later interview that he regretted not being able to continue to announce the news after being interviewed.
The official website of the Hospital Humanities Committee of the China Life Care Association, under the supervision of the National Health Commission of China, reprinted the report under the title "If these doctors can be reminded in time, maybe there will be no such day", and thanked the reporter. And can always browse without being affected.
Aifen said in a later interview that he regretted not being able to continue to announce the news after being interviewed.