It’s evident from the announcement of the imminent lockdown by the President, and the presence of armed forces at quarantine centres. It’s evident from the shutting down of small businesses with no real economic plan of what happens after the 30 days! It’s evident from everybody scurrying back home from their greener pastures or paying television accounts!
It is evident from the bare shelves in most stores (except the book stores), and the insistence by the Facebookers that all inbound travellers be treated not only as if they already have COVID-19, but also like they went and got it deliberately and are trying to infect us with it, like an episode of the walking dead! It’s evident in the ways we are almost mindlessly normalising stigma under emergency situations, and resorting to airplane inflight emergency protocol -save yourself first! To be honest, our panic is possibly justifiable under the circumstances. It is perhaps an initial indication that we need to be a little bit more honest.
