Normally, it often takes me about 30 moreover hours to journey from my family in Grass Valley, California to Freetown, Sierra Leone. As a result of truth a number of airways have canceled all flights to Sierra Leone, I skilled to fly to Washington, D.C., and layover for a number of hours. I then flew to Brussels, and skilled a layover of 14 hours in Brussels. Then off to Casa Blanca, have a drink with the ghost of Bogart (I might have desired Ingrid) and sit there for five a number of hours in a crowded airport half with returning Sierra Leoneans. Then I flew for 4 way more a number of hours to Sierra Leone with a dude beside me who quickly after coughing up a storm, placed on a expertise masks and rubber gloves. Ultimately, arriving on the Freetown airport, the airport safety skilled us clear our fingers in chilly h2o after which took our temperature.

Proper after filling out a healthcare questionnaire, I used to be able to get on the bus that requires you to a 15 human being ferry to cross the bay to Freetown. Would not you realize it, another male sits following to me and places on a masks and gloves. Now on this ferry, it may be tough ingesting water and everybody on the boat wears a on a regular basis residing jacket… Everybody aside from the male with the masks and gloves! It took me in extra of 46 hours to trip to Freetown

I clarify to you this as a result of as you could very effectively visualize, an individual with Ebola may trip because of a amount of countries, get in contact with lots of people at the moment and land who understands wherever, and with what, if any constraints. The notion of a journey ban for West Africans tends to make us actually really feel higher and is correctly intentioned however badly believed out. Even in Sierra Leone, when the federal government set some villages lower than quarantine and have a number of avenue checks, individuals nonetheless nonetheless left the villages on the paths and rivers and produced their strategy to Freetown.

To implement a journey ban would demand 100 thousand troops. Improved notion is to ship out a thousand medical women and men and the instruments and medicines alongside with skilled infectious ailment administration particular person. As.a facet bear in mind, the people of SL are asking your self what the value of our troops are in Sierra Leone. They test with me if we’re preparing for conflict. They really really feel the troops had been trustworthy, however wasted of their mission. I’m instructed by a pal of mine who was there, that regardless of Ebola, the troops have been in extremely popular pursuit of the attractive girls of Sierra Leone.

Tomorrow, I get my journey transfer that lets me to switch throughout wherever within the nation. I’m going to Kenema and Kono. I look ahead to the journey to Kono, It is just 200 miles and the final 75 miles often takes a mere 9 hours to get there..