He once gave a ride to a nurse in his department who had just gotten off her night shift and wanted to pay a quick visit to her family.
Later, when the pandemic situation improved, some female colleagues would take their laundry back home. For a long time, they never visited their own homes for fear of bringing the virus to their families. Initially, he and his colleagues at work lived there. By March 12, Cai Yi had lived in the hotel for 45 days. Next to its Houhu campus is the Home Inn, which had been converted into temporary dormitories for the hospital’s employees. On March 12, Cai told a moving story about a female colleague. (Image: Courtesy Annenberg School for Communication) He is also director of Penn’s Center on Digital Culture and Society and deputy director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China. Guobin Yang is the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, with appointments in the Annenberg School for Communication and the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. These postings were humorous even when he was recounting the hardships of work and life. Because Cai was a physician in the hospital’s Pain Department, his fans jokingly called his postings “pain style.” Even the funniest of his postings brought tears to his readers.Ĭai Yi not only mourned the dead but also wrote about the living, especially about colleagues who, like him, worked on the front line. Readers found them both heart-rending and inspiring. They were stories of remembrance and condolence. The pathos of sorrow in these writings was as deep as an earnestness to learn from their examples. He wrote of their colorful personalities, their hard work, their sacrifices, and their humility and kindness as human beings.
Five of them were physicians, and one an administrative staff member. Cai would write stories about everyone in his hospital who died of coronavirus-six in all as of June 2020. “It is only when they are suddenly gone that we discover how important they were in our lives.” Cai lamented that there were many kind people like Mr. Lin was always smiling and never complained. Hospital staff could take something from his store and pay later (and it would be OK if someone forgot to pay). He would receive express deliveries for staff in the hospital. With just a phone call to him, he would quickly deliver bottled water to a doctor’s office. He was only the owner of the small mart at the entrance of our campus on Nanjing Road.”ĭr. He was not the head of the hospital or the party secretary. But almost every old-timer in Wuhan Central Hospital knows him. Lin? I don’t even know whether his name was Lin Jun 林军 or Lin Jun 林君 or Lin Jun 林均. A story about “little people” who died of COVID-19, it opened with four plain words: “Mr. The posting that made Cai Yi famous was put up on February 11. Almost all of his postings were like character portraits, telling the stories of his brave colleagues and friends and condoling every death in his hospital. His diary-like postings offered a rare and detailed insider perspective on the life and work of medical professionals in Wuhan. By the time the lockdown was lifted on April 8, Cai Yi had posted about 30 Weibo messages and had become an internet celebrity.
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