By now the #StayAtHome has become the call for prevention from an unlikely but fatal enemy, Coronavirus. Also known as Covid-19, it has spread to a number of countries around the world. The virus which was called as NCOV before the World Health Organization declared the infection as Global Pandemic mid-March, came out of China. You ask yourself "how many people died in China from Coronavirus?"
What is it like to stay home, be forced to distance yourself from other people while being paranoid from people about getting sick with the virus?
For one, it can be boring if you won't find a way to do something. Second, you will appreciate what you have in your life. We are bombarded with so many social media trends that for once you feel like throwing your phone away and never to pick it up until your sane enough to read through the negativity that emanates from your friends' shout outs.
Where do we go to for all the noise this world is giving us?
I have my own sanctuary, Family prayers.
Every night at six, since March 15, my family has prayed the Holy Rosary. In two days we will be celebrating Palm Sunday and I really want to catch that Sunday Mass TV. Next week is Holy Week and this will be the first time since 2005 that I wont be able to do my Visita Iglesia. #SocialDistancing and #STAYHOME, because.
For every isolation and meditation, one asks the following:
1. Coronavirus prevention tips, which one must I follow?
2. How can I prevent coronavirus?
3. Is it airborne? Various sources give differing asnwers.
4. How do I make a facial mask?
5. Sanitizer gel, how can I make one?
6. Where can I buy disinfectant sprays?
These are some of the random questions you get to ask yourself. I still have lots of 'em:
7. What are the Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) Online courses that can take?
8. Will we get our share from the Landbank allotment of Php 10-B Emergency loan to LGUs?
9. The so-called social amelioration program of the government, when will it start?
10. With all the chaos happening, how can we move forward and live a peaceful life?
I have some answers:
Gabbi Garcia and Khalil Ramos starts fundraiser for corona virus frontliners. Feel-good news for a world that's been broken by personal agendas and politicking. Nairobi and her gang is back today on Netflix. Go ahead and binge-watch!
Do you want peace or war? These are the guys at the forefront of every debates, arguments and unfriending: Duterte. Robredo. DDS. Yellow-tards. Bong Go. Governor Remulla and Laguna Governor.
In Hollywood, we have Trump, New York and the rest of the United States of A getting sick and not knowing how to recover.
In China, they've got the solution to every problem, and the answer to every question. And the whole world is pointing fingers at them for spreading this virus. While everyone is getting sick, China is buying, building and bullying weaker economies and nations.
Department of Social Welfare and Development must be at the center of every transaction to help people in dire need of food, housing and support. But how can you be effective when you have not expected any of these? And you haven't been preparing for anything like this?
Watching live streams of news from local news TV, one gets to realize one thing: the world as we know it is over. From news casting, to learning with Zoom as one's platform and watching the Baranggay Tanod do their rounds at 8 PM to the tune of The Purge, everything has changed and we either adapt or perish.
So will you be doing the Seven Churches Visit via the Internet? Whats the weather like in your area? Here in Cavite, it's frying hot.
Yes, schools have closed and so are the businesses and services that we once hated for duping all of us into the economy of living. The NBA season is never coming back and si is the Candidates Matches of FIDE, the world governing body of Chess.
Do you know of a place where there is no corona virus?
Do you know of a school that operates like before?
Is there cure for this sickness?
So what's news?
I have run three chess tournaments online with my players from different schools.
I have uploaded chess videos over at my channel.
I'm sleepy now. I'll be back next Sunday, hopefully, refreshed from a week of praying and fasting.
Holy week 2020 is here and I'm officially logging off.
And my internet sucks!
Semper Ad Meloria!
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