Foreign Worker Zero.

All the movies, books and TV shows that involve some kind of disasterous disease all look for "Patient Zero". It makes sense that they must find this person to see where they went to spread the disease, treat them, find others, yada, yada, yada. Not being in the real medical world, I have no idea if it is true but the premise seems good and sensible. I talked to a good many people in Doha that were foreign workers. My 4 drivers were all from the same state in India. My housekeeper and hotel staff were all from the same state in the Philippines. Shopkeepers ranged from Ethiopia, Thailand, and other small impoverished African nations and other small impoverished Southeast Asian countries. If I met someone from the same country as someone else I had met, chances are, they would be from the same area.
I have experienced the "Foreign Worker Full Contact" in other countries besides Qatar: Singapore, Dubai, Oman, and some European countries and to a small extent in the United States. In the United States, I worked with some LVN's (just under a RN in the nursing world) and they had been recruited. But in all cases, and I can't think of a single different answer, all other foreign workers, in whatever job, in whatever country, all came to that country to work because of: "my cousin was here", "my uncle was here", "my sister came back to get me.", my auntie works here", and to a lesser extent: "my dad was here", "my friend came here."
Never have I been lucky enough to meet "Foreign Worker Zero". Some one at some distant time in the distant past must have come over first to that foreign country and started working and then started sending signals and money back home. Come, Come, Come. So they come, they live together and support each other and send money home, move from country to country sometimes, and maybe eventually go back to the Philippines, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Ghana, Sri Lanka, wherever. Who was the first? Who is Foreign Worker Zero? There must be one from each country of origin and in each country of destination. So technically there could be dozens. I'd like to meet one once, somewhere, just to ask how it all got started and how they made the decision to go where they did, do what they do and take that leap that the life would be better for them. It was better and they started calling in the troops. Way to go Foreign Worker Zero. Step forward and make yourself known. Your very huge, gigantic extended family thanks you.