“THE PHILIPPINES’ inability to control COVID-19 is no different to its failure to control traffic.” Very wise words indeed from benigO Webmaster of Get Real Philippines.
Stupid is knowing the truth, seeing the truth, but still believing the lies. Meanwhile, stupidity is the act of being stupid which is having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense.
And a stupid person is an idiot.
The quarantine is not meant to curtail your freedom but to keep you safe, healthy and alive to enjoy your freedom when the pandemic is hopefully over.
It is also meant not to overload the medical services sector and to buy time until a vaccine is developed.
The quarantine is most of all to keep people off the streets and to prevent large gatherings to keep the coronavirus a.k.a. SARS CoV-2 or more commonly known now as COVID-19 from spreading and infecting more people.
You see, the virus is not a living thing until it infects a host and starts multiplying. Since it is not a living thing, this means that by itself it cannot move and needs a vector to be mobile.
And a vector is an organism that transmits a disease or parasite from one animal or plant to another.
The favorite and most effective vector of the virus COVID-19 are humans, you know, people. Without people, the virus cannot spread and will just melt away in the heat of the midday sun.
Unfortunately for us, many natives in these islands do not seem to get that; they have this oblivious attitude and their main concern and worry is if they can play majong, tong-its, attend the bilasyon or if they can buy their beer or cheap rum or not.
Iloilo City is back to Moderate Enhance General Community Quarantine or MEGCQ last week and now into General Community Quarantine or GCQ and so far the curve is still curved.
It is up to us the natives of “I Am Iloilo City” to help flatten the curve and we can start by seriously following the protocols for preventing the spread of COVID-19.
The wearing of facemask while in public is de rigueur because your life and mine depends on it, plus it is also an ordinance in Iloilo Province and “I Am Iloilo City” with fines and legal sanctions.
The purpose of wearing facemask and face shield is to protect yourself and the rest of the natives you come into contact with. You see, the virus COVID-19 is transmitted from person to person via droplets from a cough, a sneeze or your saliva. The favourite point of entry of COVID-19 is through your nose, mouth and eyes hence the facemask.
Any sensible person knows that for the face mask to be effective, it must be worn properly covering your nose and mouth down to your chin and must fit snugly.
And then there are the idiots which unfortunately you see almost anywhere in “I Am Iloilo City”. These are the ones wearing a facemask but their noses are not covered, and the ones also wearing facemasks but only their chins are covered, exposing their nose and mouth.
And this tops it all – their face mask is just hanging on either ear or on their forehead like a sweatband and their face shield is covering their forehead, not their face as it ought to be.
Considering that these are idiots, they, of course, never got the point why we are required to wear facemasks and face shield; it is not to hide their ugly faces or cover their foul-smelling breathe.
I need not repeat the logic and scientific reason behind the wearing of a facemask in the midst of a COVID-19 pandemic as you are, I hope, not stupid or an idiot.
Remember those people riding motorcycles with their helmets hanging on their arms and not on their heads where it is supposed to be? Yes, they are one and the same idiots.
Why is it so hard for people, supposedly educated, to follow these simple protocols: wear a facemask and shield properly (of course), practice social distancing (no need to be cosy in public), wash your hands with soap and water or disinfect with alcohol, and above all stay at home if you have nothing important to do outside.
That is classic stupidity. I suppose that being idiots, they fail to realize the consequence – that they will get themselves infected then their family and everyone else they come into contact with./PN
