#05. Not Lock Down

What a weird time to be alive. Never in my life I’d thought of living in an apocalyptic mode like this. Maybe I’m exaggerating, but it does feel like one these days. I haven’t been out of my house for five days. I’ve been seeing the world outside from the edge of my balcony.

As per today around 277 people has been diagnosed, and 19 has died. The mortality rate is recorded at 8%-ish. Most countries are below 5% so that’s a bit worrying, eh? In South East Asia, we are second only to the Philippines, ant they’re already on lock down in Manila. We’re not.

We’re only encouraged to keep our distance, which is too vague for a lot of us. Church has been cancelled. That feels a bit weird, especially I was actually anticipating Easter this year having working on a script for a church play. It’s going to be a recorded piece, though, so I guess it’s actually a good thing?

I’m slightly getting a bit worrier though, now we’re seeing closure of airports and public facilities. Although I know that would be the best move for now, I know it’d hurt a lot of people. But it’s a very dilemmatic time. Lock down definitely would affect everyone financially, but we’re anticipating a collapse in the health system if we don’t take any precaution to the spread. There’s no win-win solution in this kind of situation.

So far what we know from what’s happening in other countries is that people are dying not because of the virus per se, but the inadequacy of equipment and health facilities that force them to choose which patient is worth the support. It’s unimaginable.