Kuya is busy with the farm and Joy is busy with business meetings, both with the farmers in Bulacan and with the 10 thousand women organization (on line).
I have a new computer so she is able to use my HP while I blog.
They have just started giving out the Chinese vaccine in the area, but only to health care workers.
Cousin Philip's wife has tested positive for covid: She is a health care worker, and Philip who works with Dr. Angi has to stay home in quarantine... Dr. Angi will have to close the office to disinfect it, and told our cook not to sleep there anymore, and suggested she go into quarantine by staying there during the day.
The cook has refused, since she is mainly sleeping there when no one is there as a night watchman, not in the clinic area, and correctly notes that staying there during the day would put her at a larger risk. Yes, a 90 pound 70 year old lady plus two dogs to guard the doctor's office at night...but since she is related to a lot of tricycle drivers and probably knows the local NPA and ex NPA types in the area, I suspect no one would dare harm her. We offered to let her sleep here to keep her safe, and again she refused.
It's the local fatalism: What will happen will happen, so don't get your knickers in a knot about it.
it's about money of course. Lots of grand kids who need school fees paid for and she gets paid. Also when her son comes to do extra work in the area, he can also sleep there at night for free.
The minute I heard about the case affecting our family I noticed a sore throat and cough. Psychosomatic of course: it's just my allergies acting up.
I am high risk, but whatever. At the start of the epidemic, I made a new will, so no problem...As a doc, my only instructions are NO RESPIRATOR AND NO CPR>
It is dry season but we've had a lot of rain recently and when it gets overcast the allergies start. Not helped because the city traffic now goes around our house as the main street is now one way near our house.
The second floor of the palenke was closed for awhile due to structural problem but has reopened; A department store with cheap stuff. and then there is Besco next to us, plus smaller shops that sell appliances nearby. Things are partly open so we again have traffic, crowds, but no parties at the square so the litter isn't too bad.
We still are getting a lot of beggars, but now it's mainly the regulars, plus some coming for help with school fees. And two people asking for help paying for rabies vaccine. The mayor did offer free rabies vaccine shots, but they need a small copay for the shot.... since the shut down there are a lot of stray dogs around who will break your heart when you see them. I want to take them home but don't dare, mainly because we have too many dogs as it is, but also because of the rabies risk.
the only stray dog I ever rescued was Gigi: I heard a dog crying in our drainage ditch, and when I checked I thought it was our dog who was dark brown. But it turned out to be a tan dog covered with sludge, and having convulsions: either from the toxic sludge or from eating poison. The neighbor didn't have the money to treat her, and would have either killed or abandoned her, so I took her to the vet and after five days she was better. She turned out to be a small terrier now sleeps under my bed, along with her son, whose father was large and thin but placid minded.
We bought Ruby a plane ticket so she can come home from college for summer break: But now the quarantine has become stricter and she might have to spend 2 weeks in a Manila hotel, even though she has had the Pfizer vaccine.
Oh well. Usually Manila is a few weeks behind the curve... the rules keep changing, and recently they stopped all visitors from other countries, but not local citizens coming home....
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