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I must say "thanks" for Dumagueteinfo website. After 3 months of lockdown and 3 months of NO INTERNET, I can finally catch up on things. I live in Valencia and we moved on April 20th to a house just two down from our original location. On the 21st we asked PLDT to move our connection to the new location. After numerous calls to Manilla over the three months and many trips to PLDT Dumaguete, July 9th the guys came and installed the Internet again. What a pain - stuck in the house (I am 74 but healthy and walk daily) with no internet - talk about going stir crazy! Thanks again for all the info I found here on Dumaguete Info.

 

J: We have a regular pass for tuesdays and thursdays, so we only hit the mall stores on those days. For the "senior" issue, as i said on another post, "...Several weeks ago, we seniors got a letter from barangay capt says "don't have staff, need to go out" (used more words).. Used it several times, no problems..." Have now used it along with the day pass three times at Robinson's, same letter not different letters.. Same door (back), same guard, same letter...

 

I quite agree - a lot of the locals dont bother. But their behavior isn't scrutinised the way ours appears to be here lol!

 

There are and are manned but no one stopped us once.

 

Having a virologist on our forum is huge benefit I didn’t realize we had. Your advice and opinions are welcome and appreciated. We now have more educated foreigners than we had 10 years ago creating an interesting mix.

 

I think my interpretation of the main emphasis of your comment was correct: You wrote "It [a mask] provides no protection for the individual wearing the mask (unless it is an N95 or better)" I strongly disagreed with your "no protection" in that even stopping a person touching the mouth, nose and eyes is a protection. I also believe that even amateur masks may have some effect.

You also wrote "...but is slows down and interferes with your own breath to protect everyone else from you if you happen to be an asymptomatic person infected" You disagreed with my comment that "I may be wrong but I think in an earlier post you said they are of use only for those who have symptoms of the disease". But you said that "the mask protects everyone else from you (the infected)" In a later post you referred to drivers coming on trucks from Cebu and wrote "If one arrives and is asymptomic positive, he could theoretically infect several other people quickly. The masks are the tiniest inconvenience to lessen that threat". This clearly implies the threat is ONLY from the infected person and not TO the uninfected person. Contradicting this was my point.

So I feel that when I wrote in this thread "I may be wrong but I think in an earlier post you said they are of use only for those who have symptoms of the disease when in fact they could have saved thousands of cases and lives if worn by everyone months ago" I was not being unkind in how I interpreted your comments.

You may wonder why I remember this: It is because I wrote much to encourage people to wear masks - as a virologist I felt it my duty to give some guidance. Other virologists could have also joined in but I don't think there are any on the Forum - if there were then I hope they would have added their advice as a small minority on the Forum actually seem to resent knowledgeable people giving advice, preferring instead to stare at the sky. I noted when people seemed to counter this advice or made recommendations that underlined safety of fellow Forum members (as in cases where people highlighted the danger of handling specific objects, when the handling of ALL objects is a danger) and contradicted what I saw as 'less useful' guidance. It was not only you.

I make no apologies for using my training and experience to give guidance on a subject I know more about than the average person - in the same way I listen to advice from many members of the Forum who have similar levels of knowledge and experience in other fields.

And if you think I misquoted you, then here is a snip of your posting (the poster you were replying to followed by your reply):

 

Relaxed checkpoint from Bacong this morning. Only one person there, not stopping anyone. Cheers

 

And what a shame people and governments have taken months to come to that obvious conclusion.

I may be wrong but I think in an earlier post you said they are of use only for those who have symptoms of the disease when in fact they could have saved thousands of cases and lives if worn by everyone months ago.