< Back
Date
AMBO IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD IN TIME OF COVID
Panic time started when WHO declared COVID19 to be pandemic. While most event of crowd gathering started to cancel, one particular group organiser thought he could defy the odds on the premise that we should not give in to fears as believed to be spread out by fear mongers through bias medium of disinformation. His thought was deemed irrelevant. The Council too canceled his own event.
Lockdowns began. And as if there was a bomb for mass annihilation about to be activated, every household doors were closed. All became prisoners in their own home. Fear of this virulent virus prevailed amongst people. There was not a single soul seen roaming around in our vicinity. Until one day, I spied an ambulance, two paramedics and two young ladies wearing masks having a critical exchanged of notes outside my next door neighbour's unit. But I really had no inkling who needed a medical help at that time since the Ambulance is a regular habitue in the area. By a minute, they're gone!
Seeing the ambulance officers alone in this rather unusual circumstance seemed eerie knowing that the entire compound is inhabited by the elderly people. God forbid, please not covid.
Being seniors, slow and helpless that most of the residents are, the vulnerability of such virus is not far-fetched in each one of us. I pray that the patient was safe from whatever crisis that befell him/her. Three months thereon, there was no recorded casualty of covid in our midst. Thanks God. Touch wood!
This happened last April 8, 2020.
Panic time started when WHO declared COVID19 to be pandemic. While most event of crowd gathering started to cancel, one particular group organiser thought he could defy the odds on the premise that we should not give in to fears as believed to be spread out by fear mongers through bias medium of disinformation. His thought was deemed irrelevant. The Council too canceled his own event.
Lockdowns began. And as if there was a bomb for mass annihilation about to be activated, every household doors were closed. All became prisoners in their own home. Fear of this virulent virus prevailed amongst people. There was not a single soul seen roaming around in our vicinity. Until one day, I spied an ambulance, two paramedics and two young ladies wearing masks having a critical exchanged of notes outside my next door neighbour's unit. But I really had no inkling who needed a medical help at that time since the Ambulance is a regular habitue in the area. By a minute, they're gone!
Seeing the ambulance officers alone in this rather unusual circumstance seemed eerie knowing that the entire compound is inhabited by the elderly people. God forbid, please not covid.
Being seniors, slow and helpless that most of the residents are, the vulnerability of such virus is not far-fetched in each one of us. I pray that the patient was safe from whatever crisis that befell him/her. Three months thereon, there was no recorded casualty of covid in our midst. Thanks God. Touch wood!
This happened last April 8, 2020.