Monday marks the third anniversary of the beginning of the COVID pandemic in the United States. On March 13, 2020, the Trump administration declared a nationwide emergency and issued a travel ban to those traveling to the country from the Schengen area of Europe. It was a time of great chaos and…
Monday marks the third anniversary of the beginning of the COVID pandemic in the United States. On March 13, 2020, the Trump administration declared a nationwide emergency and issued a travel ban to those traveling to the country from the Schengen area of Europe. It was a time of great chaos and confusion, and I was trapped in the Balkans.
That is when things took a turn for the worse. The next day, I was informed that this meeting also had to be canceled because the adviser felt ill after exposure to someone who contracted COVID. A few hours later, the Slovenian government announced a lockdown for the entire country, a social distancing protocol, and a curfew. Other European countries issued similar orders, and the Trump administration ordered the travel ban. My research trip was effectively over.
Our bus just stopped at the border checkpoint and waited. We were not provided any information about why or how long we would remain there. Four hours passed before we were notified sternly by a Croatian border official,"It's going to be a long night." It was now 1:30 a.m., 13 hours since I had any food or water. I decided to act. I didn't want to be put in a Croatian hospital for two weeks. It also made little sense to participate in a storming of the Croatian border patrol checkpoint. I felt such an act in a foreign country was not the best move, especially during the chaos of an international health crisis.
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