Due to the sudden rise of COVID-19 positive cases in the Philippines, the national government announced that Metro Manila was going to be placed under ECQ or Enhanced Community Quarantine for an entire month. This basically meant that nobody was allowed to go out of their houses not unless they really needed to, and had quarantine passes (one per household) to be used for the purchasing of the family's basic needs like groceries, gas for their car/s and buying medicines. Malls and restaurants were closed, companies have decided to let their employees work from home, and of course the school year ended a bit earlier than usual. Sadly, due to this pandemic, no commencement exercises were done for Batch 2020. But still, I'd like to extend my congratulations to all the graduates. In the province of Negros Occidental, it had only been last week where our governor declared that the entire province was also on a state of Enhanced Community Quarantine after having confirmed that there were more than five cases of COVID-19 in Bacolod, which is the capital of the province. As I write this blog entry, we are already on the sixth day of ECQ here in the province, and honestly, I'm torn between accepting and denying the so-called "new normal" of the world due to this pandemic. Suddenly, daily routines have been disrupted, some have lost their jobs and are relying solely on the government's aide for their basic necessities, and lastly, people are dying from this virus which is the saddest part of all of this. Sometimes I wished this was all just a bad dream, but it isn't, and the most that I can do as a citizen of this country is to stay home, so I can help with flattening the COVID-19 curve. While at home, I try to be as productive as I can be. I write, make coffee (ehem Dalgona lover over here), try out simple recipes that I find on YouTube, sing and play the ukulele a bit, communicate with the boyf and my friends, watch K-Dramas and even practice manual driving just around the subdivision (thanks Daddy-o). Basically, that's how my day usually goes and although I enjoy every bit of it, there's no denying that I miss being in the outside world and just having a social life in general. Being more of an extrovert, the first few days (and even until now) of quarantine were really tough, but then I simply psyched and assured myself that in time, everything would go back to normal. I just had to trust the process and to trust in the Lord. As a public servant, my SK Council and I initiated this project called, "OPLAN BULIG NI SK KONTRA COVID-19". Through this project, we hope to extend help to the members of our community by providing them with supplies that will "shield" them from the virus, some of which are bars of soap for handwashing (and even bathing), vitamins and washable face masks. Despite not being able to spend our 10% SK Fund, our mayor and some private individuals which include my parents, were all kind and generous enough to donate these supplies to support our cause. To date, we have already visited almost 10 sitios in our barangay and hope to help even more in the days to come. Despite this, the question still remains. Until when will this pandemic take hold of our daily lives? We can only hope that a cure will be developed and released really, really soon because if not, the COVID-19 virus will always be just there, waiting to infect its next victim.
My thoughts and prayers go out to all our frontliners, from our medical personnel, men and women in uniform, up to those who continuously work despite this crisis, those who have been infected with COVID-19, all the PUIs and PUMs, their families, and those who have died from the virus. May the Lord continue to protect all those who are in this battle and may He grant eternal rest to those who have gone ahead. Let us all continue praying not just for our country, but for the entire world, that in God's perfect time, everything will be back to normal and we'll look back to this phase in our life and say with much relief and pride, "That was tough, but I'm glad I survived".
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