When this pandemic broke, I guess it never mattered that much . I still went on with the usual task in school, doing the school rounds, supervising teachers and other school work. March 12, that Thursday morning I rode a bus to Tagum though there were already news about the CoVid19 spreading in one province but I had to be there to discuss with focal heads on gender and development. I had a very productive 2 hour session with the group and left at around 3:30p.m. to the bus station and headed home.
The next morning, the school declared class suspension due to the fear of local transmission and so I spent the weekend at home. I had a manic Monday with all the meetings ,when I received a message that the nurse wanted to see me.
It was on March 17 when I came to the school clinic. The nurse said " you'll be on home quarantine " saying that I'm considered a PUM (person under monitoring ) because I traveled to a place where there's one case of CoVid19 positive patient.
What I felt that time is un-explainable, first I got annoyed being asked with questions like: where I have been, how long did I stayed there,who I was with. But what irks me more is being advised to stay home for 14 days and be back in school after getting a medical certificate on March 26. What should I do? There are a lot of work to do, I'm not even done yet with delivering the evaluation results to the probationary teachers, how can they ask me to leave abruptly. Since that was an Administrative Resolution, I don't have a choice but to go home.
When I told my family about my situation, they were also frustrated. I know that my family were just showing their support by sharing their disappointment over the decision and that act somehow cheered me up.
As I have to leave without even calling for a meeting with the faculty members, I posted in the group chat what happened. There were a few teachers who wished me well and said that I should take care of my health. But the days passed by and I haven't hear from them unless I asked about some school matters. So this is what is meant by social distancing. I'm feeling psychologically and emotionally down.
However, I've been receiving message from our school nurse about how I am doing, how's my body temperature.
At first, I 'm annoyed when asked bout this because deep down I know I'm fine and I don't have all the symptoms of a covid19 positive patient. But eventually, I understand what she's doing, it's here duty and I have to also do my part.
A week after, the school management released a memorandum that the school is suspending school work following the local government mandate on partial lock down to prevent spread of the virus. So that meant, all employees were also asked to stay home and only a few were on duty to serve the skeletal force.
March 26 came and I'm fine but the city was already put on quarantine by the mayor.
Though the school was closed, I had to get that medical clearance, so off I went to the barangay health station. But sadly, was not given the medical clearance because I have not reported my case in the brgy. and I was even advised to spend another week for home quarantine not unless I provide that certificate from the school that I already had been monitored. What's with all these policies!
I have to get on with my life. I chose not to be pressured with the papers and took some time to free myself and learn to cope with the boredom of staying in the house.
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The next morning, the school declared class suspension due to the fear of local transmission and so I spent the weekend at home. I had a manic Monday with all the meetings ,when I received a message that the nurse wanted to see me.
It was on March 17 when I came to the school clinic. The nurse said " you'll be on home quarantine " saying that I'm considered a PUM (person under monitoring ) because I traveled to a place where there's one case of CoVid19 positive patient.
What I felt that time is un-explainable, first I got annoyed being asked with questions like: where I have been, how long did I stayed there,who I was with. But what irks me more is being advised to stay home for 14 days and be back in school after getting a medical certificate on March 26. What should I do? There are a lot of work to do, I'm not even done yet with delivering the evaluation results to the probationary teachers, how can they ask me to leave abruptly. Since that was an Administrative Resolution, I don't have a choice but to go home.
When I told my family about my situation, they were also frustrated. I know that my family were just showing their support by sharing their disappointment over the decision and that act somehow cheered me up.
As I have to leave without even calling for a meeting with the faculty members, I posted in the group chat what happened. There were a few teachers who wished me well and said that I should take care of my health. But the days passed by and I haven't hear from them unless I asked about some school matters. So this is what is meant by social distancing. I'm feeling psychologically and emotionally down.
However, I've been receiving message from our school nurse about how I am doing, how's my body temperature.
At first, I 'm annoyed when asked bout this because deep down I know I'm fine and I don't have all the symptoms of a covid19 positive patient. But eventually, I understand what she's doing, it's here duty and I have to also do my part.
A week after, the school management released a memorandum that the school is suspending school work following the local government mandate on partial lock down to prevent spread of the virus. So that meant, all employees were also asked to stay home and only a few were on duty to serve the skeletal force.
March 26 came and I'm fine but the city was already put on quarantine by the mayor.
Though the school was closed, I had to get that medical clearance, so off I went to the barangay health station. But sadly, was not given the medical clearance because I have not reported my case in the brgy. and I was even advised to spend another week for home quarantine not unless I provide that certificate from the school that I already had been monitored. What's with all these policies!
I have to get on with my life. I chose not to be pressured with the papers and took some time to free myself and learn to cope with the boredom of staying in the house.
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