About 3 months ago, President Duterte placed the whole Luzon into Extreme Community Quarantine and like what most of us have done, we’ve had ourselves glued in all kinds of news media to check on how things are going. For the past 3 months, we’ve seen the best and the worst of people from selflessly devoting time and effort to help those who are in need to those who took advantage of others’ desperation. I won’t go preaching and citing incidents related to these shenanigans because just like what I said, we’ve all seen the news.
We were hit, or should I say still being hit, by this pandemic Covid-19 and we fought and still fighting. This is a war between nature and man, if you’ll pardon the exaggeration, and in every war there are battles, skirmishes - small encounters not seen by the Generals. We have our own battles in the midst of this war against the pandemic - the battle for our sanity.
Centers for Disease Control quoted, “The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic may be stressful for people. Fear and anxiety about a new disease and what could happen can be overwhelming and cause strong emotions in adults and children.” It is to no surprise most of us have felt like we are all going loco. It’s normal, that’s how fear and anxiety play their cards and this is the season they get to play it right.
If for some reasons you’re reading this blog because perhaps you’re bored and still under lockdown finding some ways to kill time, please right after reading this go and shut down your computers or put down your phone. I’ve experienced how liberating it is to enable myself to get out of boredom without the help of my smartphones and computers. Read a book, learn still photography and take snapshots of your common household items, call a friend and have a chat, play with your pets or like what they always say, do whatever floats your boat.
The government may have relaxed the quarantine but the threat of the virus is still out there so if you really have nothing much to do outside, just stay home. We can win this war, we should.
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