From Grandma’s Lounging Chair
Written by J. Corazon Jamero Logarta How Long Will This Last
Let’s leave the statistical, sociological, and medical update about this pandemic disease which has become the talk of planet earth to the Department of Health and our government. Okay? Let’s zero-in on what you and I, in fact all of us, have been silently keeping in our brains these past weeks.
This lockdown, this quarantine, this “house arrest”, this “social distancing” – HOW LONG WILL THIS LAST? That is the question – the only one - left for us to really ponder about, right now. The virus has gone wild alright, we all know that for a fact. Now what ?
We can honestly say that we absolutely had nothing to do with how this (secret ?) pestilence started . Ironically, it is irrevocably here in our midst without our own doing. And its effects have not only fatally affected peoples of all walks of life but have also terribly shaken all aspects of our individual and collective lives. Without any foreseeable cure for it, we are pitifully left with only a twin advisory: (1) Don’t get caught by it (prevention) and (2) Don’t spread it if you have it (isolation – facilities shall be provided).
It has been quite a while since our civic and ecclesial authorities have painstakingly formulated guidelines for the prevention of the spread and the eventual vanishing of the disease. We only have a few options left to beat the disease. Might as well take the advice not just for one’s own sake but for every other one’s sake. After all, as a song goes “we are all in this together”. It’s about time we learn TO TAKE PRIDE IN FOLLOWING RULES RATHER THAN VIOLATING RULES – of course on the premise that the rules are for the common good. Why, for instance, must one’s cronies give in to a perverse impulse to assemble for a fleeting thrill of a “sabong” instead of ”social distancing”, wearing masks, and observing coughing-sneezing etiquette for health reasons?
Needless to go into more specific examples. Suffice it to say, one’s character and priorities become transparent in trying times like this. Come to think about it: one good effect that Covid 19 has done to us is that it has forcibly reduced our lifestyle into radical simplicity, compelled us to reassess our human values and examined our social conscience vis-a-vis what Mahatma Gandhi considers the Seven Capital Sins of human society : “1.Wealth without work; 2. Pleasure without conscience; 3. Knowledge without character; 4. Commerce without morality; 5. Science without humanity; 6. Religion without sacrifice; and 7. Politics without principle.”
Any answer to the title-question: how long will this last? Should you throw the question back to me, my answer would be a quote from Bob Dylan’s song, The Answer is Blowing in the Wind :
“How many times must a man look up before he sees the sky/ how many deaths will it take to know so many people have died/ the answer my friend is blowing in the wind, the answer is blowing in the wind.”
Ambiguous? Your interpretation is as good as anyone else’s. Mine is : the answer is right before you. Just like the wind, one won’t see it but one surely can feel it. ( as long as one is not “nanhid” of course)
So far Bohol is Covid free. Padayon Bohol : paglig-on, pagbinut-an, pag-amping ug pag ampo. Alang sa tanan.
Lest we forget, in Christ we are one body. And so we heal as one. SHALOM !
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