It been a while since I logged here.

I thank God for another day.

It’s been three (3) weeks and we are still on Extreme Community Quarantine for our safety.

Curfew has been declared 8pm – 5am.

Quarantine Pass — issued, only ONE (1) per family, aged 18-50yrs.

Schools suspended, students study on-line.

Forced Work From Home (for the lucky ones).

Self-distancing measures.

People wear masks and gloves outside of their homes.

Tape on the floors at grocery stores, drugstores and others to help distance shoppers (6ft) from each other.

A limited number of people inside stores, therefore, lineups outside the store doors.

Non-essential stores and businesses mandated closed.

Entire sports seasons cancelled.

Concerts, tours, festivals, entertainment events – cancelled.

Weddings, family celebrations, holiday gatherings – cancelled.

No masses, churches are closed. Hear mass on TV or on-line.

Malls are closed, restaurants and fast foods too.

No socialization with anyone outside of your home.

Children’s outdoor play parks are closed.

We’ve been eating more as a family.

More home-cooked meals, more experimental and creativity in cooking

We are to distance from each other. No handshakes, hugs or kisses

Two (2) rounds of Happy Birthday songs while hand washing became the in-thing

Shortage of masks, gowns, gloves for our front-line workers, as even we wear masks and gloves outside our homes

Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill.

Panic buying sets in —- shortage on rubbing alcohol, toilet paper, hand towel, disinfecting supplies, paper towel, anti-bacterial hand soap, laundry soap, no hand sanitizer.

Shelves are bare.

Wet markets open from 8 – 10am; 3-5pm

Manufacturers, distilleries and other businesses switch their lines to help make visors, masks, hand sanitizer and PPE.

Government closes the city borders to all non-essential travel.

Old facilities open up for the overflow of COVID-19 patients.

Make-shift hospital tents start to rise.

Press conferences daily from the Government

Daily updates on new cases, recoveries, and deaths.

Government insist people to stay home.

Barely anyone on the roads.

Essential service workers are terrified to go to work.

Medical field workers are afraid to go home to their families.

This is the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic, declared March 11th, 2020.

Why, you ask, do I write this status?

One day it will show up in my memory feed, and it will be a yearly reminder that life is precious and not to take the things we dearly love for granted.

We have so much to be thankful for, to be grateful for.
We survived … we are alive…
Be kind to each other – love one another – support everyone.

We are all one!