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Adobo Chronicles’ Suggested ECQ Home Activities

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BAGUIO CITY, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Baguio Bureau) –It’s been over 40 days since the government put in place an Enhanced Community Quarantine (ECQ) throughout the entire island of Luzon.

You’ve scrubbed all your pots and pans, your toilet is squeaky clean, your closet has been organized in a way it has never been before in your entire life. So what is left to do to while away the remaining hours and days of your home confinement?

In the interest of public service, The Adobo Chronicles is sharing this to-do list put together by our home and social experts to keep you from losing your otherwise elite composure, or your sanity during this period of ECQ:

  • Remember your collection of torn denim pants? They’ll probably go out of fashion when this Covid-19 crisis is over.  Patch them all up. It’ll lessen entry points for the virus.
  • While you’re at it, sew up all the holes in your pairs of socks.
  • Time to clean up the molds on your collection of shoes!
  • You may have missed cleaning the Last Supper painting and giant spoon and fork woodcarving hanging on your wall. Dust them up!
  • You’ve been receiving tons of Facebook friend request lately, haven’t you? Accept them all — common friend or no common friend — then go back and unfriend them one by one. Then repeat.
  • It’s time to delete all those embarrassing photos of yourself that you have posted on your Facebook page.
  • Now is a good time to check the expiry dates of the cans and cans of sardines, pork and beans, and soups in your cupboard. And don’t forget the cartons of orange juice and milk in your fridge!
  • Haven’t you had enough collection of empty cardboard and styrofoam boxes you saved from your takeout meals? You know what to do. And don’t forget your collection of used plastic spoons and forks.
  • You’ve had the plastic covering on your couch and dining chairs long enough. Discard them! They may be harboring unwanted viruses and bacteria!
  • How many jars of spare coins do you have sitting on top of your credenza? Roll them up by denomination and give them to the homeless.  They especially need them in this time of crisis.
  • When was the last time you gave your Shih Tzu a bath?

Do you have other suggested activities? Let us know in the comments section. We’re in this together. We heal as one!

Health & Medicine, Social Media

Facebook Unveils New Emoji To Battle Coronavirus

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SAN JOSE, California (The Adobo Chronicles, San Jose Bureau) –  In this time of crisis of pandemic proportions, not to mention directives for shelter-in-place (or enhanced community quarantine),  netizens need all the tools they can muster to express to their friends, followers and networks how they genuinely feel about COVID-19.

As expected, many feel sad, angry, shocked and what-have-you. And these emotions can be expressed through emojis that the social media network Facebook has provided to account holders. But the available emoticons may not express what many truly feel about this unprecedented situation.

So today, Facebook unveiled the latest addition to its reaction emoticons — an emoji that  will surely express what many feel about COVID-19.

Use the new emoticon.  It’s now at your disposal!

Health & Medicine, Media, Politics, Social Media

Adobo Chronicles Self-Quarantines, Hit By Different Kind Of Virus

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Like most everyone else in the Philippines, the United States and many countries in the world, we at The Adobo Chronicles have also been quarantined, but for a very different kind of reason, a different virus that has hit us and hit us hard.  And it is very contagious.  No amount of handwashing, sanitizing,  social distancing or wearing of PPE will protect people, certainly not us.

Scientists have no name for it, but we’re calling it the Toxicity virus.

It’s very toxic and it manifests itself among politicians, the news media, social bloggers and among ordinary citizens.

Symptoms include:

  • Politicians’ disregard for the safety of other people, despite very clear and specific rules that they ought to follow but choose to ignore under the guise of humanitarian reasons. In reality, their actions show some utter lack of brain cells.
  • Speaking of the lack of brain cells, the virus also lingers among supposed leaders who have used crisis situations to self-promote their political ambitions while creating noise, being opposed to almost everything just for the sake of trying to be relevant and to survive their all but dead careers.
  • Members of the news and social media trying hard to assume professions and roles that they don’t have any clues about — professions like lawyers, virologists, scientists, medical professionals, economists, statisticians.
  • Doomsday-saying and rumor-mongering, evident in people who take pleasure in faking the news to sow fear in an already panicked population.
  • Post-sharing of anything that comes across social media, regardless of the ridiculousness and stupidity of the content being shared.  Hell, the more clicks, the more likes, the more re-shares, the better – VIRAL in the true sense of the word.
  • Over-eagerness, as manifested in the way rules are being enforced on the local level and down the chain of command. The desire to outdo rules already put in place on the national level. It is especially common among good-for-nothing, power-hungry, pseudo-leaders.
  • The unintelligible urge to defend individual rights even if these rights trample on the greater good of the greater number of people.

Our staff at The Adobo Chronicles have all been tested for this Toxicity virus. We’re positive and we have imposed self-quarantine for all. Indefinitely.

We haven’t manifested any of the above symptoms but we’re devasted by them.

See you all on the other side.

 

 

 

 

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