When I first decided to write my pandemic thoughts around this time last year, I thought this series would only go on for a couple of weeks to a couple of months at most. Fast forward one year and this series is still relevant. Just the other day, the Philippines recorded a whopping 7999 COVID-19 cases – the highest number of daily cases since the pandemic was officially declared on March 11th, 2020.
I mean, fine, until vaccines are rolled out to the entire population, the disease would still affect a big portion of the population, and this applies to any location really. But to record the highest number of cases after a whole year is a different level of holy crap. If this spike happened in the middle of last year, it would’ve been totally understandable since the Philippines, like the rest of the world, was still figuring things out. But man, when you read the news and see that other countries are rolling out their mass vaccination programs while we’re here bracing for another potential lockdown is… disheartening.
To be clear, the government said it would not declare another ECQ (the tightest lockdown we experienced last year), but rather “granular” ones, whatever the hell that means. Still it’s not comforting to imagine that we are back right where we started.
The darkness continues…
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