Lockdowns were conceived to protect families from getting infected with COVID-19, the viral disease that has assumed pandemic proportions. While adults were allowed to leave home to work or meet the family’s basic necessities, seniors and children were prohibited from leaving home unless armed with a health clearance and on an urgent matter. Such an extreme form of “social distancing” for those seen as most vulnerable to the virus is believed to have kept the number
The front-page picture of empty meat market stalls in this newspaper’s Tuesday issue recalled to mind the same scene I witnessed in a market somewhere in China 50 years ago. A group of Filipinos headed by Charito Planas comprised the second “Cultural Educational Tour” that visited that country—including Behn Cervantes, Ninotchka Rosca, Spanky and Dolly Perez, Sally Zaldivar Perez, Vic Foz, and myself. Remember, Reader, this was during the so-called Cultural Revolution in China under Mao, with Mao’s wife at the peak of her political power. Anyway, one of the things our Chinese host was asserting was how, after their “liberation” (i.e.,
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