I went out for a while to buy my maintenance medicine for another month. I was surprised by the number of people at the drugstore, and that is not even the busiest branch of Mercury Drug. What is even more surprising is that there are no bottles of Alcohol left on their shelves. All they had are a few small bottles of hand sanitizer for kids and three bottles of hand sanitizer for adult. I chose to buy the two so I’ll have something in stock, one senior citizen grabbed the remaining one.
There used to be several bottles of alcohol when I went there last month, but they are all gone. Mercury Drug provides free Alcohol in their counter to rub your hands though. I went to a small grocery store where I bought two bottles of 70% solution ethyl alcohol (yes, combined with moisturizer). I now have five of them in our medicine cabinet. Last Saturday, I also bought a pack of disposable hand gloves (it contains 100 pcs). Gonna use them when we go to the market and when we go to the grocery stores. Long ago, I read somewhere that one of the dirtiest items you can ever find in a supermarket is their push cart. Some people have this habit of having their kids ride on it while grocery-shopping which is not practical because they don’t regularly clean it. When someone buys cold cuts and fresh food items, the drips are left on the cart.
Has it come to this?
I have a friend who went to the supermarket yesterday to buy only a few items. She was so surprised when there was a line-up of cars at the parking lot and so many shoppers were buying loads and boxes of groceries as if there is no tomorrow. They’re in a panic that this corona virus might bring further damage to the country. She only intended to buy three items and ended up with three bags full of groceries. Only those who have enough in their pockets will be able to because an individual with a lowly job could not even afford to buy grocery items in bulk. Nakakalungkot. I am saddened by this turn of events. People are growing crazy, so much more if you have a government whose priority does not include the health and well-being of its citizens.
I read the report of a journalist friend saying that private hospitals don’t have their own test kits. Department of Health admitted in a Senate hearing a few days ago that they only have 2,000 test kits and the number of cases is increasing. The budget for the department was slashed by 10B and went to the coffers of the president. They substantially increased the budget of the Office of the President by the billions. Even The Department of Education was not spared.
This contact tracing that they are doing and not reporting the true numbers of positive cases here is just alarming. The local residents who were found positive with COVID-19 might have infected others too without their knowledge.
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