MORE BENEVOLENT LOCKDOWN

I really don't understand why the food sector should suffer so much during lockdowns. People go to supermarkets to buy their food essentials. They go to markets to buy cheaper vegetables. They also go to restaurants to east as many do not cook anymore and prefer to eat out. I am one of the latter. 

Yet I have to eat my food on the sly in the place where I had gone because eating is not allowed. Why?

When seniors go to supermarkets, do they think we can stand for hours and hours? No we must have a seat. And it is so depressing seeing chairs for sale yet you cannot sit on them. 

In Tagalog, benevolent translation is MAPAGBIYAYA. Though we are concerned about the transmission of the Covid 19 disease, yet, we should be concerned with the living so much more. The living need to eat healthy foods. And so all the outlets for food must be available and accessible. 

Social distancing is easy to observe inside restaurants and supermarkets. Everybody now upholds the use of facial masks as part of the fashion. So we should not be anxious nor afraid that we would catch the disease when we go to these places. 

Folks let us write to the IATF to create benevolent rules especially for the seniors. Let us also remember to mention the pregnant women, PWD and women with children. FOOD IS THE BIGGEST TOOL TO STRENGTHEN OUR BODIES' DEFENSE AGAINST COVID 19. 

So be it. 

I just