They call it "Community Quarantine" which is the right term since I do think that the term lockdown is like used in prisons but nonetheless almost the same as people are encouraged not to gather in groups, organize rallies, attend the Mass or church gatherings physically and encouraged to stream online, go to malls, and basically mingle together to avoid the transmission of the highly transmissible #CoViD-19 which killed thousands of people already worldwide and counting.
A few hours from now Metro Manila the capital of Philippines would be imposed of a quarantine although it is not so strict because people who works in the city can still go there, public transportation is still functional and will still function, only the skeletal forces of the government have a work especially the health and emergency sector.
Supplies can still get in the city which is good since Metro Manila is a highly populated region in the Philippines, it has to at least get some supplies otherwise people will get sick. Student classes in all levels are already suspended until the mid-April but still can be shortened or extended based on the decision or advise of the Department of Health (DOH).
People are advised to obey the authorities for their own benefit and welfare because the government is doing its own effort to stop basically the spread of the disease of not control it because there is no known cure for the CoViD-19 because it is a virus and it mutates fast plus the person who contracted it can get the risk of being re-infected again.
Right now even in my town people are panic buying as told to me by my mother when she went to buy me my Parathyroid medicine. I told my mother to buy me some Vitamin C but she could not buy some as well as a simple rubbing alcohol that I was using for my own hygiene since I could go to wash my face in the bathroom.
My prayer is that the virus would fade-out soon so that our economy would not suffer too as it also affects cryptocurrency prices that I myself is also depending on for my medical necessities. Unfortunately cryptocurrency also got hit by the mass sell-off by panicking people.
Now if I will not be able to purchase vitamin C here in the stores I will just resort in buying vitamin C online because we have to get a supply of it because it helps me and my parents with our resistance against colds and maybe possible against this CoViD-19. May God help my country, all of us for that matter, we just have to trust God.
"The name of the Lord is a strong tower;
The righteous run to it and are safe." - Proverbs 18:10