COVID 19 - THANK YOU, FRONTLINERS

This is dedicated to my very dear friend and classmate, EMC, who is a nurse in the US and who now is COVID positive with pneumonia and presently, is still in a critical condition... though, not yet on ventilator... our fervent prayers for your fast recovery and for great miracles!

And to all our fellow doctors, nurses and healthcare providers who contracted the illness  (including Dr. FDD) and those who succumbed to COVID-19 (including Dr. DMT).

You are blessed to be a FRONTLINER!

The frontliners risk their own lives as they “face the virus” head on to save others’ lives and to keep the community safe and sustainable in these uncertain times of the COVID-19 Pandemic!

So their mantra is:

“WE STAY AT WORK FOR YOU.

PLEASE STAY HOME FOR US.”

FRONTLINERS usually mean HealthCare Workers (HCW) within the hospital, such as doctors, nurses, midwives, technologists and technicians (med tech, rad tech, respiratory tech, etc), institutional workers, as well as security guards, ambulance drivers and administrative and finance people who have contact with patients.

BUT, being a FRONTLINER is also extended to other sectors such as police and soldiers at checkpoints, grocery store, market and food delivery staff and even the media.

This is another set of the heartwarming insights from WEARGOODVIBES.CO expressing GRATITUDE to the COVID-19 FRONTLINERS.

Though, my images are in the setting of healthcare (mostly Ciudad Medical Zamboanga), OUR SINCEREST GRATITUDE IS FOR ALL FRONTLINERS out there! 

YOU ARE INDEED BLESSED TO BE A FRONTLINER!

WE ARE BLESSED TO HAVE YOU!

YOU ARE HEROES!
We pray that you continue to be LIVING HEROES!

❤️🙏🏻♥️🙏🏽❤️🙏🏾♥️🙏🏿❤️

PS 1 Most photos are from the Ciudad Medical Zamboanga Facebook Page and from CMZ video screenshots. Thank you.
PS 2    Thank you too, to the leaders who find ways to make the environment of the frontliners, safe, comfortable and conducive for service.

COVID-19 — THE GIFT OF TIME

This COVID - 19 Pandemic has affected all of us in a number of ways, especially those who have to STAY AT HOME... work from home, making ways to help the frontliners, extended sleep, chilling with Netflix, movie marathons, gaming, “tiktok-ing”, continually connecting with old and new friends on the phones or maybe, taking care of chores for the family!

Zamboanga City, Philippines  🇵🇭 April 2020

So, here I am again inspired by WEARGOODVIBES.CO and adapting another of their inspirational thoughts with my photos.

Hope these insights touch your hearts and minds too!

Budapest, Hungary 2019

Astronomical Clock, Prague, Czech Republic

Gasthuisberg Campus, UZ Leuven Hospital, Belgium 2015

Cebu City, Philippines

Joaquin Enriquez Memorial Stadium, Zamboanga City, Philippines 1999

Maribago Bluewater Resort, Mactan, Cebu, Philippines 2020

Wanagiri Hidden Hill, Bali, Indonesia 2020

Katholische Innenstadt Kirche, Nürnberg, Germany 2019

Prague, Czech Republic 2019

Munich, Germany 2019

Let us make the most of this precious time  to harness our inner beauty and inner strength and to appreciate things we have taken for granted.

Misr Al Qadima - Al Dayoura, Egypt 2018

Let us stop... and ponder on these words.

May these insights bring us through the unprecedented, unpredictable, uncertain future that this COVID-19 pandemic brings.

May we continue to find ways to keep our mind,  heart and spirit healthy and bright throughout this Lenten season 2020, which we are celebrating in an entirely different and unique way!

❤️🙏🏻♥️🙏🏽❤️🙏🏿♥️🙏❤️

COVID 19 PANDEMIC — THINGS WILL NEVER BE THE SAME AGAIN

COVID-19 ....things will never be the same again!

These insights from WEARGOODVIBES.CO touched my heart ♥️ in these unprecedented times and I wanted to adapt these thoughts using my photos and collages.

I didn’t feel like I have to think up new thoughts, when the words hit what I feel at the bullseye.

This is dedicated to my family and to my extended family in the workplace and all my dear friends near and far who may not be physically with me but always a part of my life.

Thank you to the Zamboanga City frontliners,  and all over the world, especially to the Ciudad Medical Zamboanga family for your dedication and service... where performance excellence begins in your hearts! 💕💕💕 (P.S. some staff photos are from the CMZ FB Page)

I hope you can relate as you read through these images....

We thank the ALMIGHTY GOD for the all wonderful people around us, who help us and who give us HOPE in these challenging times of the dreaded extremely contagious COVID-19 PANDEMIC.

We have scary thoughts of rapid spread with intubated patients and imminent death.

Nations have, then, implemented the ENHANCED COMMUNITY QUARANTINE a.k.a. “LOCKDOWN” (starting March 20, 2020 1 AM in Zamboanga City, Philippines) to “flatten the curve” (www.flattenthecurve.com) meaning we need community isolation measures to help limit the spread  of the novel Coronavirus and reduce load on the hospitals, thus, would be manageable by the medical providers.

Aside from proper hand washing, PHYSICAL DISTANCING (previously known as “SOCIAL DISTANCING”) (en.www.org/wiki/Social_distancing), which is a set of infection control actions intended to stop or slow down the contagious disease, most effective for infections transmitted by droplet spread, is now “strictly” implemented  by the community BUT which is so difficult for us, Filipinos who loves to be around family and friends! 

In fact, the cry of our leaders to STAY AT HOME and to STAY ONE METER APART is so difficult to obey!

PHYSICAL DISTANCING as well as  QUARANTINING can affect a person’s mental  health leading to stress, anxiety, depression or panic (en.www.org/wiki/Social_distancing), thus, we have to help each other see the GOOD in these trying times.

Anyway, although, everyone may be so “faraway”, we are very fortunate that in this digital age, there are so many ways to be connected... and to keep our minds busy! Let us open our minds and our hearts to appreciate the perks that this dismal present brings.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH MY DEAR FAMILY AND FRIENDS!

STAY SAFE.
BE WELL.
STAY HOPEFUL.
STOP THE SPREAD.

❤️♥️❤️

GUIDELINES IN THE HOLY WEEK 2020 CELEBRATION OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF ZAMBOANGA

Here are the GUIDELINES IN THE CELEBRATION OF THE HOLY WEEK 2020 released by the Archdiocese of Zamboanga.

Per Circular 2020-4, Pastoral Statement #3 on COVID 19

(During the period of Enhanced Community Quarantine in the City of Zamboanga starting March 20, 2020 until further notice)

Thanks to Fr. Sulpicio Soliva and with Infographics from Archdiocese of Zamboanga Chancery.

For the Holy Week Celebration of the Metropolitan Cathedral of the Immaculate Comception in Zamboanga City, this is the Schedule:

For the Pontificio Collegio Filippino Live Holy Week Celebration in Rome with Philippine Time, these are the schedules:

HAVE A BLESSED HOLY WEEK!

❤️🙏🏻♥️🙏🏽❤️🙏🏾♥️🙏🏿❤️🙏♥️