EDITOR’S NOTE: Shelby resident Demrie Alonzo and her 15-year-old son decided last August to travel to Shandong Province, China. He would attend school and she would teach. She has shared her story about the conditions there, approximately 800 miles from the epicenter of Coronavirus outbreak; her first story was published on Feb. 10. Richland Source asked Demrie to update their saga to give us a local look at an international crisis. She did so on Feb. 18 and again on Feb. 26.
Demrie Alonzo and her son offered this dispatch on Friday at 6:18 a.m. Eastern Standard Time.
We arrived at our departing airport. It’s like a ghost town in that there’s hardly anyone at the airport and no shops are open.
There was a coffee place open where I went to get coffee and I had to have my temperature taken, write my phone number down, write my name down, and where I was flying to before I could have coffee.
I have a feeling there will be very few people on our flight.
We go straight from China to Los Angeles. Originally, we were going to have a layover in South Korea so I’m very happy that’s not going to happen. once we are safely back in America I will follow up.
