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To panic or not to panic?

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Hmmmm… there really isn’t much choice, is there? Should I run to the supermarket now and grab all the toilet paper I could get?

Despite the seriousness of our situation, I found myself laughing at the mental image of me punching, and elbowing my way to the TP rack against a dozen others to the background noise of The Walking Dead zombies in a feeding frenzy.

I’m glad though that we haven’t made it to that point. So far, our City has settled into an uneasy calm, with the supermarket lines just being a little bit longer than normal. And the good news is that we only have a few halfwits who still didn’t get the memo that unlike zombies who are impartial to brains, the virus also attacks those without any.

So I was asked by my editor to share how this housewife prepared for the quarantine. Oh, I totally panicked in my head. My imagination got to that point where I briefly wondered if boiled mango leaves could sustain life indefinitely.

Not succumbing to the urge to go into a hoarding spree was difficult. I admit that I entertained that idea. Self-preservation is an instinctual urge which has served the human race well, and has gotten us to where we are now.

But it’s not right, especially at these times. We only bought what we usually buy, a month’s supply of rice and some canned goods, and the usual household detergents.

My more urgent concern are my maintenance medicine of which I keep a two-week supply. I really should extend my stock to a month. I have hypertension and diabetes.

We’ve settled into life under house quarantine now. It’s has a “cloistered” feel to it, so near and yet so far from what goes on outside our walls. Technology keeps us abreast with everything that’s happening in the world, and we feel the heartbreak and the fear, and yet, there is also this surreal detachment, or maybe it’s a feeling of unreality and disbelief, which almost makes us want to ask the question, “Is this really happening?”

So how’s HQ life? Ours is probably the same as everyone else’s: nightly family rosaries and prayers, and a cycle of eating, napping, unlimited FB-ing, and ogling handsome oppas in Kdramas. Oppps! (The last part is only for me.)

My brat started learning how to cook everyday food, and today, went for an online job, was in the middle of an interview when our hen decided to lay an egg, and cackled non-stop, while our dogs went ballistic when the doorbell rang.

Needless to say, she failed the environmental check part. Apparently, to teach English online, your surroundings must be free from distracting noises.

She sought solace in YouTube, and I can hear PewDiePie right now, squealing something about clenching his butt because something scared him.

Husband, meanwhile, is trying to be McGyver, improvising with an old hat, plastic book cover, and some tie wires to create a face shield which could be used to protect us from droplets should the need arise.

And I should be taking this opportunity to do some serious house-cleaning but my brain and muscles freeze at that thought. And my fats just threatened to go on strike. Relax fats, I’ll do it tomorrow.

Overall, we are good. No fights except when husband complains that I’m ogling, err, watching my Kdrama oppas too much. We have agreed to ration our rice, saying we now have a really valid reason to eat less and lose weight. We said that we’d start to exercise but we all somehow manage to “forget” until it’s too late. Well, tomorrow is definitely the day!

Yes, HQ life is quite livable. As they say in social media, we are being called to save the world by doing absolutely nothing. So we hunker down in our homes, and pray like there’s no tomorrow for this pandemic to end soon. And as long as we have TV and internet, and each other, we are good.

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