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Cecilia Brainard #Covid articles in Positively Filipino

June 12, 2020 by admin Leave a Comment

 Cecil­ia Brainard

Please read my arti­cles in Pos­i­tive­ly Fil­ipino, below. Note that all of  Cecil­ia Bra­nard’s arti­cles and her Covid series are part of the Philip­pine Covid Archive of Fil­ip­inas Her­itage Library.

Coro­n­avirus: The Beginning 

“When I vis­it­ed Mani­la last Jan­u­ary 20 the air was thick with smog­gy haze from the ash fall of Taal Vol­cano. Taal had erupt­ed on Jan­u­ary 12–13 and destroyed people’s homes and farms and killed live­stock. Peo­ple in Luzon were busy help­ing the dis­placed peo­ple and clean­ing up the ash fall.

Still reel­ing from this dis­as­ter, peo­ple dis­cov­ered the news shift­ing to the dead­ly virus in Wuhan, Chi­na. The symp­toms of coro­n­avirus sound­ed like a very bad flu: fever, cough, mus­cle pain, pneu­mo­nia; but unlike the flu, coro­n­avirus could not be checked with a vac­cine, and it was dead­ly. Defy­ing Chi­nese author­i­ties, some doc­tors from Wuhan post­ed online hor­rif­ic reports about coro­n­avirus.  The nov­el virus was high­ly con­ta­gious; it was spread­ing like wild­fire; it was killing huge num­bers of peo­ple…”  please con­tin­ue read­ing in Pos­i­tive­ly Filipino. 

 

How Fil­ipinos Are Cop­ing With Covid-19, Part One: Cana­da, Sin­ga­pore, UK, Italy

“Fil­ipinos all over the world have been grap­pling with the coro­n­avirus pandemic’s dis­as­trous effects ever since it broke out in Feb­ru­ary: trav­el bans; deaths on cruise ships; lock­downs or shel­ter-at-home or self-iso­la­tion. Fil­ipino med­ical care work­ers have been thrust into the lime­light, try­ing to save peo­ple from dying from Covid-19. Coro­n­avirus recalls the mon­u­men­tal pan­demics of the 1918 Span­ish flu and the Black Death of the 14th century.

How have Fil­ipinos all over the globe coped with the dis­rup­tions caused by coronavirus?

Despite var­ied gov­ern­ment lock­down rules, most of those I inter­viewed have stayed at home and lim­it­ed their con­tact with oth­ers. They wear face masks, prac­tice social dis­tanc­ing, and san­i­tize their hands, sur­faces, gro­ceries, mail and pack­ages — care­ful about not infect­ing them­selves and others,

Part One of this series fea­tures Fil­ipinos from Cana­da, Sin­ga­pore, UK and Italy…” please con­tin­ue read­ing in Pos­i­tive­ly Fil­ipino.

How Fil­ipinos Are Cop­ing With Covid-19, Part Two: Ger­many, Switzer­land, Spain, France

“The Fil­ipinos I inter­viewed for this arti­cle shared some of the pre­cau­tions they take to sur­vive the coro­n­avirus pan­dem­ic. All wear face masks (some wear gloves while shop­ping), prac­tice social dis­tanc­ing, wash their hands, and san­i­tize mail and pack­ages. Some wash fruit, veg­eta­bles and san­i­tize cans and food box­es. Many remove their shoes at the door­way. All lim­it their con­tact with oth­er peo­ple; and in some cas­es do not have close con­tact with their chil­dren nor grand­chil­dren. In many house­holds, one per­son is des­ig­nat­ed as the buy­er of gro­ceries and neces­si­ties; the rest stay home. Many cook their food; those who order take­out do so via con­tact­less deliv­ery. Some order online items and food.

Here is Part Two of the Series on “How Fil­ipinos Are Cop­ing with Covid 19”, fea­tur­ing Fil­ipinos from Ger­many, Spain, France, and Switzer­land…” please con­tin­ue read­ing in Pos­i­tive­ly Filipino. 

How Fil­ipinos Are Cop­ing With Covid-19, Part Three : Japan, Aus­tralia, New Zealand, Philip­pines

Some coun­tries have con­tained Covid-19 rel­a­tive­ly well, includ­ing (but not lim­it­ed to) Japan, Aus­tralia, and New Zealand. For rea­sons that experts are still study­ing, these coun­tries have com­par­a­tive­ly low coro­n­avirus cas­es and deaths.

What I see is that the gov­ern­ments of these coun­tries have a clear plan and have been quick to imple­ment­ing trav­el restric­tions, quar­an­tine rules, test­ing, trac­ing, and issu­ing clear rules and guide­lines to their cit­i­zens and res­i­dents. In many cas­es, cit­i­zens and res­i­dents received finan­cial and oth­er assistance.

The Philip­pines was doing rel­a­tive­ly well until the surge of Covid 19 cas­es in Cebu in mid-June. I have includ­ed the per­son­al accounts of some Fil­ipinos about how they are deal­ing with coro­n­avirus. Please con­tin­ue read­ing in Pos­i­tive­ly Filipino.

 

Read also:
Coro­n­avirus: The Begin­ning, by Cecil­ia Brainard
How Fil­ipinos Are Cop­ing With Covid, Part One (Cecil­ia Brainard, Pos­i­tive­ly Filipino)
How Fil­ipinos Are Cop­ing With Covid, Part Two (C. Brainard, PF) 
How Fil­ipinos Are Cop­ing With Covid-19, Part Three (C.Brainard, PF)

Covid-19: An Encounter with a Bee Dur­ing Quarantine

Inter­views follow:
Lia Fer­aren, Germany
Tere­sa Con­cep­cion, Canada
 Ofe­lia Gelve­zon Tequi, France
Reine Marie Bon­nie Melvin, France
New Zealand: Jay Mon­til­la & Moni­ka Tawngdee
Lin­da Ty-Casper, Mass­a­chu­setts, USA
Bar­bara Ann Jacala, San Diego, CA, USA
Bri­an Ascalon Roley, Ohio, USA
Eliz­a­beth Ann Besa-Quiri­no, USA
Inter­view of Cecil­ia Brainard by 95.9 Star FM Bacolod (DJ Bil­lie), USA

Inter­views of Fil­ipino Amer­i­cans #Cop­ing­With­Covid

All of the above links are part of the Philip­pine Covid Archive of Fil­ip­inas Her­itage Library.

tags: #coro­n­avirus #covid19 #covid #Fil­ipinos #cop­ing­with­covid #Paris #France #Europe #Fil­ipinoFrench #French­Fil­ipino #Fil­ipinoAmer­i­can #Bacolod #Philip­pines

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I am a daugh­ter of the Philip­pines and an adopt­ed daugh­ter of Amer­i­ca. I have also trav­eled to many places so I am also a daugh­ter of the Earth. My expe­ri­ences have found their way into my sto­ries, which try to depict char­ac­ters caught in impor­tant moments in their lives, sit­u­a­tions that force them to act, make deci­sions, change. I try to see the world from my own point of view, not the dom­i­nant West­ern one, thus my inter­est in his­to­ry, cul­ture, and set­ting. But my char­ac­ters car­ry my sto­ries; they are the most impor­tant in my sto­ry-telling. I have to dive deep into them to under­stand their human­i­ty – their good­ness as well as their bad­ness, their beau­ty as well as their ugli­ness. Just like us. Just like each of us. I need to know where they came from, where they are now, so I under­stand where they are going. Just like us.

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