MY wife braved the crowd at the LGU vax center for her booster, afraid to catch the virus unprepared.
Two days later, a friend with her for that booster shot called sick, she tested positive of the virus.
I suggested to my wife to get her antigen test as she was starting to run a fever. She also tested positive.
A day, after, I tested positive. Isolation was the first step, staying in separate rooms.
I was starting to cough and sore throat was getting severe.
Correct doctor, right meds, and complete isolation did the trick in licking the virus.
It was the mild strain, so not much to get worried.
Six days later, I tested negative, but had to complete the ten-day isolation requirement.
Thursday, last week, my doc declared I was free to step out from my room. My isolation ended.
Freedom! Exactly what I felt after being closeted to the four walls of my son’s room who has now his own family.
The second time I have this feeling of freedom and relief after the EDSA Revolution.
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What do you when you get stuck in a small room for ten days?
Watch movies on Netflix and catch up on your readings.
Lucky, midway in my isolation, a book sent me by my brother in the USA arrived.
The book: The Marcos Dynasty (The corruption of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos.)
Time Magazine describes the book as
“a merciless account of the Filipino dictator’s rise and fall”
My brother, says, the book is not available in the Philippines.
“It looks like somebody succeeded to ban the sale of the book in our country,” my brother said.
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Very interesting read, it explains the web of lies on the life of the former dictator.
So I am not surprised of the BBM lies in social media. His father had them in books and in movies.
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First day after isolation, a fellow Waray, met me at the gate of my house as I was getting ready for my morning brisk walk.
“Mano Ray, BBM was here in our city (San Pedro City) and I got to see and listen to him. Are you voting for him cuz you are a Waray?” she asked me.
I answered with a question: “Should I? What do you think?”
Her answer, “I love our country. I’ll not vote for him.”
“Who is your President?” I followed up.
“It’s Sen. Manny,” she answered.
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Tell me, “What are the two things you hate the most about BBM?”
“The face,” she replied. “I asked for two, what is the other?”
“The face. BBM has two faces. One face is sinungaling, the other face is magnanakaw,” came the answer.
“Are you rooting for Sen. Manny because Mommy Dionisia is from Leyte?”
“Yes, also that aside from the fact we need simple but practical mind and sincere heart to attend to the simple need of the country: solve poverty,” she explained.
How can you not agree with this woman kababayan, a neighbor living in the laylayan of San Pedro City in Laguna.
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But why are we so poor when economists in the government keep saying, expect growth?
I get reminded of that story in Russia when Gorbachev was thinking of going to a shooting war against the USA.
The Russian Supremo was doing a review of tanks, the missiles, the planes, and the troops, when ten men in black marched in.
“Who are they? Spies?” Gorbachev asked.
“No sir. They are economists,” explained the KGB director, saying further, “Imagine the havoc they will wreck when we let them loose on the Americans.”