mdipaola

It's absolutely idiotic. My flight was filled with people wearing MSF, More Than Me, Red Cross, and IRC shirts. They have the option of taking military transports and UN flights but they don't because of how difficult it is to plan ahead for them. They get cancelled ALL the time, they get delayed for weeks, and they aren't at regular intervals (e.g. you get three flights per month, but they're all in one week). It's just not feasible to rely on military or UN flights.

With that being said, the American government can't ban flights because... well... there are no direct flights from the U.S. to Liberia/SL/Guinea.

There's serious problems with the Liberian government's release of official numbers. We know for a fact the following things:

1) the tests to confirm an Ebola case takes less than a day to do

2) they've been lagging 5-7 days behind their official reports

BUT... I got stuck at a godawful press conference while waiting for my credentials to get processed.. and I was only half-paying attention until the country's Chief Medical Officer got up and spoke about her close call with Ebola when her driver got it.

While she was up, she let it slip that she gets the lab reports at the end of the day every day.

This contradicts what they've been telling reporters, the public, and the WHO which is that it's taking 7 days to get the lab results out.

Someone here is lying, and I don't think it's the WHO, I think it's the Liberian government.

ALL construction is shut down. The Chinese, Lebanese, and Indians are all leaving and taking their money and construction jobs with them. I'm sure the government wants that money and construction and development back. Ebola has MASSIVELY screwed with the Liberian economy.

Yup. I'm doing it voluntarily, just to be safe, even though the chances of me spreading it without knowing I have it is REALLY low. I'm taking my temperature every couple of min. I just took it now. It's 98.4.

Nope. U.S. citizens have right of return.