Interview 3 - Ajay Shah

From the United States, I travelled to Alang, India. This city has been financially and economically ruined by the war and is therefore basically abandoned at this time. Evidence is shown by the barren docks on the shore of the city. At one time in the past, this area was full of boats and merchant ships, with fishermen and traders aplenty. But now, due to the wars, all that are left are some empty scraps of metal on a barren beach. This is the setting at which I talk to a man whoescaped the disease by fleeing from this very beach. His name is Ajay Singh and after today's interview, I receivedsome great insight into the common man's view of the war that was to come.

When Ajay had been here before, it was filled with boats of all sizes with one purpose. This was to evacuate any survivors to prevent them from being infected. Although this may seem great at first glance, these men were infact cunning thieves because they would, in return, ask for all of their passengers' money. Often, they would just be leading these men, women, and children into their own death because as so many went on a ship, eventually, one or two infected humans would board without knowing. These would then reanimate on the boats and proceed to kill many of those on board and infecting many others. So, in effect, the innocent men and women were giving their money to be killed in the middle of the sea.

But despite this, people still continued to get on the boats. One of these was Ajay himself. He managed to swim, like many others, to these incoming boats to try and get himself rescued.  ut instead of being on boards a ship with a bad captain, he was pulled onto a boat that was from the Canadian Coast Guard. This boat was safer than the others and, therefore, Ajay managed to survive. But you cannot help but wonder what happened to all of those people who were not as fortunate.

This interview shows the extent of the disease and how it seemed to grow as time went on. If all of those men and women had proper protection, could this disaster have been averted? I guess we will never know...