Today I interviewed Nury Televaldi in Lhasa, Tibet. He was a human smuggler when the outbreak occurred in China. He would smuggle people out of the country into countries that were once owned by the Soviet Republic. He was very open about his smuggling business and that he became very wealthy from his smuggling business. He transported people through two ways. His major route was through buses and cars passing the border, but he also participated in air travel. He spoke of people who wanted to go to the Western World because of its acclaimed “miracle cure.” He even gave an example of a couple who went to Paris to escape. The husband had been infected and forbade his wife from calling the authorities. He did this because he was afraid of being sent back. These people were afraid of their own government! If the Chinese government had been open about the infection, then maybe they might have been able to contain it better. The Chinese government scared its people into fleeing and ultimately infecting the entire world. I think that the China was perceived as the “World Superpower” and did not want to show any weakness. Well back to the interview, Nury tells me about how corrupt government officials were. These people were so corrupt that they even helped shetous with the paperwork in exchange for some of the fee. People were more concerned in making money than containing this epidemic. If these people had better morals, then the world might have been spared from this disaster.
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