my college age granddaughter is stuck in the USA: because if she came home for vacation, she'd be put into quarantine for two weeks on each leg of her journey. Luckily the college has a job for her for a month, and for the rest of her vacation she will stay at an Aunt's house. But it does mean she won't be home for another year....
Sigh.
and a lot more shops are open: clothing stores and sarisari (mixed dry goods) type stores are open. Restaurants have take out. But you sill need a pass to go out, and only a few people are allowed in at a time.
the only place I am going is to the bank to withdraw money each week.
For groceries like noodles, coffee, and biscuits, I send the maid to the local grocery store, and for daily food (meat, vegetables, pan de sal, and especially fish) the cook gets fresh local food at the palenke. My main problem is that my computer's battery is dying, and the store where I bought it has closed. When things get better, I'll probably ask someone to buy it in Manila for me.
No church yet: but presumably they will open soon. The small Pentecostal church that meets in our large meeting room plans to restart a service either this Sunday or next Sunday. Most of their members are HS or college age kids.
I am not sure about mass: some places they have services with social distancing.
I figure I wouldn't go inside our older poorly ventillated church if it was full but would stand outside. The problem? We're still in Tag-init, hot season (90 degrees in the afternoon) and although we are starting with the rain and thunderstorms in the late afternoon/evening, the full monsoon with it's cooler weather hasn't arrived yet.
But anyway, due to the heat, I usually attend the mass at the (air conditioned) mall with my step son.... we will have to check on if they plan to restart mass there in the next few weeks.
I was complaining in a comment on another blog about why don't they hold church services outside, where it is safer? After all, my ancestors snuck out to hear mass in the fields, and in Africa, Father sometimes held mass under a tree in the more remote villages.
Well, at least one priest in Manila is doing just that:
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| Father Ronald Roberto celebrates Mass in a Manila street on the back of a pickup truck. (Photo courtesy of Father Roberto) |
yes: Sound system. This is the Philippines, and even even the Catholics sing (as opposed to in the USA, where the post Vatican II hymns are so atrocious that no one sings).
Father Ronald Roberto, parish priest of Holy Family Parish in Quezon City, has been celebrating Masses on street corners in Roxas district since May 26. The initiative called “Truck ni Kura” (a parish priest’s truck) involves using a pickup with an improvised altar and sound system for community Masses in Father Roberto’s parish. He launched the initiative as a result of calls by people wanting to celebrate the Eucharist.
Manila is reopening: one of our part time secretaries went back to Manila because the shop where she works opened up. The problem? No transport to Manila... so we sent her there with our rice delivery. Now, her only problem is how to get to work.
Manila is slowly reopening but there are still questions about how to keep people safe in Buses and Jeepneys.
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question: Will all the self righteous who are demonstrating in the USA result in a spike of Covid cases, similar to what was seen after the Liberty Loan parade of 1918?
Just wondering.
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in other news, the UK Guardian (left wing) has a big expose on the Lancet study that claimed Hydrochloroquin killed more people than it saved. It seems that there were HUGE problems in the study, so many in fact that some wonder if the study was a sham.
The journal’s editor, Richard Horton, said he was appalled by developments. “This is a shocking example of research misconduct in the middle of a global health emergency,” he told the Guardian.
A Guardian investigation had revealed errors in the data that was provided for the research by US company Surgisphere. These were later explained by the company as some patients being wrongly allocated to Australia instead of Asia. But more anomalies were then picked up. A further Guardian investigation found that there were serious questions to be asked about the company itself.more details at the link. Read the whole thing.
One wonders how many people will die because of this study, so it's important not only to find their mistakes, but find who and why the study was written (to increase their stock earnings in a pharmacological stock of another medicine comes to mind). And it will make people distrust medical studies, which has implications for the medical profession.
I would not be surprised if HC was found not to work for later very sick people, and since the virus causes myocardial damage, would increase the danger of arrythmias and the fatal event is a cytokine storm, which is an immune reaction to the virus.
but it could be used as prevention, which would save the lives of caregivers, which is how India has been using it.
Are you aware that some anti viral medicines have to be started immediately or they don't make a difference: e.g. for influenza, or for Herpes.
but the press' hysterical coverage against Chloroquin has been over the top.
For example, the guy fed a fishtank cleaner by his wife who died was blamed on the chloroquin, and scared many people from taking it, even after it was admitted that he didn't take the medicine but a fish cleaner.
But what was really suspicious is that not one newspaper noted that chloroquin overdose had been touted in the pro death community as far back as the 1980s; there were quite a few of these overdoses as a means to commit suicide back then, and only became less popular in the death pusher community after a medical journal published that there was an antidote.
why do I bring this up?
lots of suicides and overdoses are being reported due to lockdown related depression in the USA, so it worries me that one "expert" is now recommending people to "off" their inconvenient relatives by using the epidemic as a cover for their deeds.... yes, actually the professor just says families will have to help the "request" of the sick elder, but the article points out that fear of dying alone in a hospital or nursing home when they get sick means they are vulnerable to manipulation.
after all, murdering grandmom for her insurance never happens in the modern world.
hmm....sounds like the films we are watching on youtube...
calling Hercule Poirot...
Sigh.
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