我在网上收集了许多中国各地具特色的疫情发生之初的文字标语横幅，作为我的作品提交这次的网上展示。
Li Jikai’s untitled work is a group of text slogans and banners collected online that were displayed in various parts of China at the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak. The banners display a paradoxical interplay of governmental surveillance control and propaganda as well as a sense of linguistic humour and irony.
Work description by Jiaying (Coco) Li
Selected banners translated by Jiaying (Coco) Li
1.发烧不说的人，都是潜伏在人民群众中的阶级敌人
Those who do not inform that they caught a fever are class enemies lurking among the people.
2.今天到处串门，明天肺炎上门
Today you drop in everywhere, tomorrow pneumonia comes at you.
3.口罩还是呼吸机，您老看着二选一
A mask or a ventilator, you gotta choose.
4.聚餐就是找死，拜年就是害人
Gatherings are for courting death, new year’s greetings are for harming others.
5.湖北回来不报告的人都是定时炸弹
People who come back from Hubei and don’t report are time bombs!
6.返乡先隔离，亲人都爱你
Isolate before returning home, family all loves you.
7.今天聚众侃大山，明天染病妻子散
Today gather to chew the fat, tomorrow catch the virus and break up the family.
8.带病回村，不孝子孙
Bring illness back to the village, unfilial children!
9.宅家十几天，幸福几十年
Stay at home for more than ten days, be happy for decades.
10.今天沾一口野味，明天地府相见
Have a bite of game today, see you in the underworld tomorrow.