"Doc In , Doc Out: Para sa mga Nawawalan na ng Pake"

 "Doc In , Doc Out: Para sa mga Nawawalan na ng Pake"

by:

Virgilio F. De leon Jr.MD

People are lowering their guards again. On my way to work my neighbors (around 5 or 6 people)  gathered in a circle , without masks , chatting loudly while consuming alcohol. 

I guess it isn't a bad start for the week. Alcohol at 7pm on a Monday Night in the streets. I do hope that they all got vaccinated. Or none of them are asymptomatic carriers. 

Valenzuela has one of the lowest cases in all of NCR and there are more or less 4000 cases per day. Recently the DOH has noticed Spikes in 9 places in the NCR but they did not reveal the numbers or the name of the places with the spikes.

Of course they would see these spikes but they might not be inclined to share the information since it would not justify their continued opening up of the economy. And as I write this NCR is still on Level 3 until November 14. 

If the Dolomite beach incident and the people in the malls and traffic are any indication people are lowering their guards once again. I surely hope that you are not one of them.

I don't want you to be a number. Another statistic. Refuse to be one. Refuse to be that number on the daily news. We have a long way to go. Keep your guard up. It might be late in the game but it is not yet over.