By Netnet Camomot .
“COME Saturday morning
I’m goin’ away with my friend
Well Saturday-spend ‘til the end of the day
Just I and my friend
We’ll travel for miles in our Saturday smiles
And then we’ll move on
But we will remember
Long after Saturday’s gone”
But on Saturday morning, I was writing this column and definitely not going anywhere as staying home remained as the best defense against Covid-19.
Staying home can be a challenge to people who love to post their daily life on social media. Well, try to observe what they’re posting now, in case you haven’t noticed that yet.
I’ve stopped posting anything, including this column, on Facebook because I find it stressful to respond to comments. Haha! After all, this column has already morphed into a pandemic diary.
If there’s one thing I noticed, it’s this: My putng in is now more pronounced but still not as loud as that of… Well, you know…
As my something-to-look-forward-to, my Oil Painting addiction is much alive and kicking but I now do that upon waking up and before sleeping since I’ve decided to work and write and read in between the “painting” sessions. And, of course, there’s Cagayan de Oro City’s Covid-19 response daily press briefing which I religiously watch every day.
Here’s an unsolicited diet tip: Watch the daily press briefing instead of eating lunch. It starts at 12 noon and ends about two hours later, making you forget the last meal you had was about 18 hours ago—yup, the dinner that had already been digested and was your first “output” for the day.
So, thanks to the press briefing, you’re now into intermittent fasting. But this is not the best time to go on a diet since fighting Covid-19 is stressful enough. That’s why people have learned to relax through cooking, baking, gardening, bartering, and posting their angst on social media. But it’s more like anger, not only angst, aimed at the representathieves, er, representatives who denied ABS-CBN’s franchise renewal.
“Denial’s not just a river in Egypt,” as the saying goes. And denial is definitely not what ABS-CBN has been praying for amidst the pandemic.
As if the world doesn’t have enough problems, huh? Covid-19 is more than enough. It has wreaked havoc on the economy, people are losing their jobs and businesses, and leaving the comforts of home has become the hardest decision anyone could make. And returning home is also a big risk as proven by locally stranded individuals (LSI) and returning overseas Filipinos (ROF) who are now Covid positive, no thanks to crowded airports, airplanes, ports, and ships, and the long lines in securing permits and certificates for their travel.
But just because the LSIs and ROFs are now the ones ending up as positive doesn’t mean the seeming lack of local transmission is an assurance that it’s time to party.
Some LSIs or ROFs were indeed caught having a drinking session at an isolation unit far, far away. And there’s a wife who missed her LSI-ROF hubby so much, she visited him at the place where he was undergoing a 14-day quarantine. Ooh la la. By the way, both incidents happened outside of CDO.
The latest challenge in the war against Covid, though, is to angkas or not to angkas. Married couples are allowed to angkas but they have to show their wedding portrait as proof—hehe. That’s the problem with an unseen enemy—the potential carrier becomes the enemy, thus, confusing the government on what guidelines it should now ram down the Pinoy’s throat.
Buti pa ang World War II, it had tanks and soldiers? Hmmm.
As technology advances, war will also evolve into more “subtle” beginnings. It’s a virus for this year. Who knows what geniuses will think of next. Brrr. Scary.
Wish ko lang geniuses will create more video games like Oil Painting instead of war games.
The world doesn’t need another war. All it needs is…
“What the world needs now is love, sweet love
It’s the only thing that there’s just too little of
What the world needs now is love, sweet love,
No not just for some but for everyone.”
Plus ayuda for those who have lost their jobs and are at a loss on what to do next.
