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Locked Down in The Philippines
We came back to the Philippines with the idea of being near my wife's family and spending time with them while our children and their cousins would play together.
Well it worked out pretty well until March this year when virtually all the islands of Philippines were locked down due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Her sisters live in the metropolitan Manila area where the population numbers approximately 32,000 people per square kilometer.
You can imagine how the government freaked out when it heard that there was a communicable disease in an area that densely populated.
The result has been that the Greater Manila area, including the adjacent province where we are living, have been on lockdown for almost six months!
The tourist industry slogan says, "It's More Fun in The Philippines." On the contrary, it has been a time of
"No fun in the Philippines." Our fun now consists of watching Netflix and YouTube videos. Our young children watch their programs and to exercise they run around inside our two story rented house.
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My wife and her sisters have not able to get together due to travel restrictions. One may not travel between cities without a special permit. Her mother was living in a different province North of Manila so they could not visit together.
Me and our children are of ages which are not permitted to venture out of our closed Subdivision. My wife is the only one who is permitted to go to the mall and stores and that only for essential items like medicines and food. A driver takes her. Many times she gives the driver a shopping list and he will go buy groceries and other items for us and deliver them to our house.
If you have been wanting to visit the Philippines now is not the time to do so. I believe that all new arrivals must stay in quarantine for fourteen days upon arrival.
This time is hard for me especially after watching USA news programs and seeing people going to the beach, going to stores with and without masks on, driving and flying interstate.
It is very tempting to just pack our bags and take the next flight out of here and head back to the U. S.
We really liked living here in the Philippines. In fact, we had been considering buying land and having a house built on it. With enough land so our children would have room to play outdoors, and we could grow food in a large vegetable garden. If restrictions are lifted soon, we may still want to follow through with that plan.
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