It felt like Hunger Games, complete with a siren at 12 noon then 8PM during enhanced community quarantine or ECQ and modified enhanced community quarantine or MECQ. Then there's the televised announcement of the fallen aka the day's total number of cases usually at 4PM. Donation drives were launched for PPEs and food for frontliners, and mass testing.
During ECQ and MECQ when only essential work was allowed, LGUs used funds to provide households with relief goods, usually rice, noodles and sardines. Who knew lumpiang sardinas tastes good.
Also during ECQ then MECQ, our LGU kept changing rules. Initially in our city, people with qpasses, one per household, were allowed to go out and run errands until noon. Because of the limited hours coupled by limited public transportation (there were none at first), people have to go out several times in a week. Which defeated the purpose of limiting movement. It also resulted in queues. They next introduced an odd-even scheme, your qpass number decides what days of the week you can go out. This was better especially since it limits the number of people out while at the same time offering longer hours to run errands.
By June our province was placed under general community quarantine or GCQ. One no longer needed to show quarantine passes at checkpoints or at supermarkets but temperature check, hand and footwear disinfection by alcohol and foot bath respectively remained. Except for stalls at the public market, stores and payment counters now have plastic barriers between the seller and buyer.
Earlier in June, a limited number of tricycles were allowed to operate. There's a plastic partition between the driver and passenger. Some tricycles even have rubbing alcohol dispensers. They are supposed to ferry just one passenger. A few buses plied MacArthur Highway. As days passed, modernized jeepneys and a few traditional jeepneys were back on the roads. Seats of traditional jeepneys now have plastic partitions to prevent people from sitting next to each other.
We are now in modified general community quarantine or MGCQ and covid positive cases are on the up. GCQ and MGCQ gave people a false sense of security. People kept going out of their houses. Some people have been going out either without a face mask or wearing them improperly. Others have no concept of personal space. I find that an umbrella makes an excellent social distancing tool. We are lucky we live at the not so busy part of the subdivision.
A lot of people have gone into buy and sell and online selling usually edible stuff they made. Some not that edible. Dinaan lang sa packaging. Gardening has become trendy as have biking, bartering, webinars and videocalls. I have yet to try sushi bake and ube cheese pandesal. Have I been living in a cave? Well, haven't a lot of us?
During ECQ and MECQ when only essential work was allowed, LGUs used funds to provide households with relief goods, usually rice, noodles and sardines. Who knew lumpiang sardinas tastes good.
Also during ECQ then MECQ, our LGU kept changing rules. Initially in our city, people with qpasses, one per household, were allowed to go out and run errands until noon. Because of the limited hours coupled by limited public transportation (there were none at first), people have to go out several times in a week. Which defeated the purpose of limiting movement. It also resulted in queues. They next introduced an odd-even scheme, your qpass number decides what days of the week you can go out. This was better especially since it limits the number of people out while at the same time offering longer hours to run errands.
By June our province was placed under general community quarantine or GCQ. One no longer needed to show quarantine passes at checkpoints or at supermarkets but temperature check, hand and footwear disinfection by alcohol and foot bath respectively remained. Except for stalls at the public market, stores and payment counters now have plastic barriers between the seller and buyer.
Earlier in June, a limited number of tricycles were allowed to operate. There's a plastic partition between the driver and passenger. Some tricycles even have rubbing alcohol dispensers. They are supposed to ferry just one passenger. A few buses plied MacArthur Highway. As days passed, modernized jeepneys and a few traditional jeepneys were back on the roads. Seats of traditional jeepneys now have plastic partitions to prevent people from sitting next to each other.
We are now in modified general community quarantine or MGCQ and covid positive cases are on the up. GCQ and MGCQ gave people a false sense of security. People kept going out of their houses. Some people have been going out either without a face mask or wearing them improperly. Others have no concept of personal space. I find that an umbrella makes an excellent social distancing tool. We are lucky we live at the not so busy part of the subdivision.
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| View from my cave. Partial penumbral eclipse June 6, 2020. |
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