Mother's Day 2020 and Timeline of COVID-19 in the Philippines

It's been 54 days since Luzon and other parts of the country was placed in Community Quarantine. I've gone full beard with regular haircut to full beard and skinhead and then crew cut to no facial hair at all.

In the last 54 days, me and my family has prayed the Holy Rosary together every five in the afternoon. During the Holy Week, we were able to pray Rosary in full, with Novena prayers to the Divine Mercy of Sister Faustina.

And it has been 99 days since the Philippines had its very first COVID-19 case courtesy of.......drum roll please, a 38-year-old Chinese woman from Wuhan, the origin of the disease. The woman arrived in Manila from Hong Kong on January 21.

And then:

• February 2, 2020. Second case of COVID-19 in the Philippines. A 44-year-old Chinese male who was the companion of the first case. His death on February 1 was the first recorded outside China. He suffered from co-infection with influenza and Streptococcus pneumoniae.

• February 5, 2020.  Confirmed third case of 60-year-old Chinese woman who flew into Cebu City from Hong Kong on January 20 before she traveled to Bohol where she consulted a doctor at a private hospital on January 22, due to fever and rhinitis. Samples taken from the patient on January 24 returned a negative result, but the DOH was notified on February 3 that samples taken from the patient on January 23 tested positive for the virus. The patient upon recovery on January 31 was allowed to go home to China.

• March 30, 2020. 128 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed on 30 March, compared to 343 cases on 29 March. 7 additional deaths reported on 30 March, and 3 on 29 March.

• April 15, 2020. A total of 5,453 confirmed cases reported in the Philippines, 55% are male, with the most affected age group 60-69 years.

• May 1, 2020. A total of 8,772 confirmed cases reported. 68.4% of cases reported from National Capital Region (NCR), followed by CALABARZON (13.3%), Central Visayas (7.6%) and Central Luzon (4.4%). The large number of cases in Central Visayas is attributed to several localized outbreaks in Cebu barangays and prisons.

And on Sunday, May 10, 2020, we will be celebrating Mother's Day. Let us all remember honor our mothers and all the mothers all over the world.

And in celebrating this very special day, let us remember Mother Mary, the Mother of God:

No Gimmicks: Free Books For Download

Hi there visitors and followers alike.

How have you been? The COVID-19 has affected all of us tremendously. Thousands have died and many more have been infected. The World Health Organization wasn't prepared at all and our own Department of Health couldn't figure a way to contain and stop this deadly virus. Together with my family, we continue to pray for the safety, protection and enlightenment of everyone from this global pandemic.

And if you have run out of things to do at home and if you have gone to visit all the spots in your house, you're probably searching for distractions. Have you gone on to develop that biceps you have been wishing to do so? Have you, just like much of the FB posters and users have done, gone on to do baking? Or have you started playing chess online again after a long hiatus?

Or are you one of the millions of readers all over the world in search of books? Free books?

Well I'm sharing the following links for you to visit. They are not mine but they will give you tons of books to download for free. No gimmicks.

Go check out Project Gutenberg

"It is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free EPub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for enjoyment and education."

You can also visit HathiTrust Digital Library. 

"Founded in 2008, HathiTrust is anot-for-profit collaborative of academic and research libraries preserving 17+million digitized items. HathiTrust offers reading access to the fullest extent allowable by U.S.copyright law, computational access to the entire corpus for scholarly research, and other emerging services based on the combined collection. HathiTrust members steward the collection---the largest set of digitized books managed by academic and research libraries ----under the aims of scholarly, not corporate, interests."

The Internet Archives can also give you books for free. Aside from free books to download or read, they have a Way Back Machine were you can type-in a website name or link and it will show it to you.

The New York Public Library paid to parse the information in the Catalog of Copyright Entries.

But here is my newest favorite discovery, a website that "reformats" an books into newer versions of Ebooks. Ladies and gentlemen here is Standard Books. 

"Free and liberated Ebooks, carefully produced for the true book lover".

And finally, my go to place, PDFDrive.Com. You don't need to create an account to get any available book you may have in mind. As long as it is available out of 80,915,893 eBooks for you to download for free. 

Deadly Checkmate 1: Anastasia's Mate

Hi there!

So how did you get in here? Were you directed from my YouTube video on Deadly Checkmate series? This video series I am making is based on the work on GM Murray Chandler "How to Beat Your Dad at Chess".

Here is the typical pattern for Anastasia's Mate:



After watching my video on Anastasia's Mate, it's your turn to look for the checkmate and practice what you've learned. Good luck!

Exercise 1:



Exercise 2:



Exercise 3:





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Until next time!  Paalam  muna!