Social distancing
With the seriousness of the current health threat, the sporting world is taking a break. Because any game not only involves participants but also spectators, the risk of infection is high. Per se, a sporting event is not exactly a contagious assembly but it is impossible to pinpoint prior to the event who will be sneezing or coughing or has fever.
Because we don’t have to have the symptoms of infection and be transmissible, not only the brave and selfless health workers and people with regular day jobs had gotten ill with the virus but even the clergy, professional athletes, entertainers, politicians and other above-ordinary humans also got infected. This CoVid19 choses no race, gender, status or creed.
To date, there is still no specific cure and vaccine to protect us from the new strain of the coronavirus and experts had estimated that there is a possibility that 40% to 70% of the public could get infected. Let us all pray and hope that their estimations will be wrong.
The whole of Italy is in lockdown and in an op-ed published in Boston Globe headlined “A coronavirus cautionary tale from Italy: Don’t do what we did”, Italian journalist Mattia Ferraresi wrote, “I and many other Italians didn’t see the need to change our routines for an enemy we could not see.” As we all know, next to China, Italy has the highest number of infections and casualties. “In the end, each of us is giving up our individual freedom in order to protect everybody”, she wrote.
Welcome the birth of ‘social distancing’ and what it means. It is just plain common sense like keeping our distance from people at least 5 feet away if possible and avoiding gatherings of more than 10 people. You can’t go to bars, museums, theaters and malls in New York now as most had closed. Restaurants only do take-outs, they don’t do dine-ins.
It is not a good idea to go to beauty parlors and barber shops as there is absolutely no way we can distance ourselves from our favorite barbers and beauticians. There’s nothing better than a good body or foot massage but with the social distancing, all we’ll get will be a long, hard stare from the masahista.
We always like to visit relatives and friends but with the current situation, it would be better to make use of technology like Skype or Face Time to get in touch. Skip the gym for the moment as it is a confined place. I heard a friend complain that they were stopped by some tanods from playing tennis for CoVid-related reasons when inside the gym beside the tennis court, a zumba class was being held.
Staying at home will be the best option but for most of our labor force who depend their existence on their daily wages, this would be tough. The implementation of the thermal scanning that resulted in long and crowded lines was messy to say the least. Because you had queued for a while, by the time you finally had your turn to be scanned, you already have fever. Social distancing?
We’re in a difficult and trying situation and this should be the time when we join hands and help the government in their fight to control the disease. If we can unite when Manny Pacquiao fights, why not now when the entire nation is in clear and present danger, instead of shouting on the streets with all those nonsense without any concrete solutions presented.
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