Life in Lockdown Through The Lens of a Baby Boomer
All hell broke loose at the start of the year when the Covid-19 virus spread like wildfire all over the globe. In February it hit close to home - the Philippines. The viral infections started in Wuhan, China last December 2019, but I only read it on social media then. Various posts said it was scary but I brushed it aside since it was far away. When the dreaded virus reached Philippine shores, people began wearing masks. The scene was foreboding. I still didn't wear a mask because local news said that the few infections were isolated cases. But things turned deadly serious when news from around the world reported that infected people were suffering and dying by the hundreds. Here the numbers began to surge. By mid-March, the Philippine president announced a Luzon-wide enhanced community quarantine dubbed as ECQ which seemed unreal. The government sugar-coated the word - lockdown - so it would be more acceptable to the public. By the next couple of months, the ECQ...