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covid days : 16 April

I started out the day too early with questions like : What am I going to do today? What am I going to do after I got vaccinated. Am I even going to survive this? And then faces of people come to mind. Good faces. Maybe about half I don’t give much thought to but the rest I wonder how they are and some I send a silent wish that they are well. For a handful, I wish to see them and talk again after the pandemic is over. There are bound to be stories to be told and heard.

It rained today and now the breeze from the open window is cooler. I hope that sleep is also better.

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covid days : 15 April

I got a letter last night which quickly became a non-letter. Either way I have decided to help and do whatever I can. What else is there to do? I’d rather have something productive to do other than exercising or watching videos most of the day.

So what do I do on my chill time? Most of the time I play Diablo III online. I have been playing it since Diablo II but I stopped. My brother gifted me with D3 a few months after my wife passed away and I have been regularly playing the game since. Aside from the game, I usually watch sci-fi vids. It’s an old preference of mine. There are others but I would rather not post them here.

I just observed when I was quickly going over the news from the US. that they have started calling covid-19 by another name — the CCP virus. The Chinese Communist Party must be pissed right now. Well, the CCP was trying to deny that the virus came from Wuhan, China even though all known evidence points to Wuhan. Investigations into this is ongoing.

I walked a lot. If it’s about two to three kilometers I’d prefer to walk it rather than take a jeep — I get to see more stuff. But this quarantine messed that up a bit so I get my exercise indoors. But it’s okay. As long as there’s music I’m good.

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covid days : 13 April

Monday the 13th. They have not found a vaccine yet.

I came across a tweet in my feed and it made me think of that coffee farm I wanted to have, roast the beans the way I want them roasted.

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covd days : 12 April Easter Sunday

Peace be with you.

I often let my mind wander to anywhere it wants. Today my thought was after this pandemic, things has to be better. We should have store of the things we lacked like PPEs for the health workers, medical grade reusable face masks for the general public. And maybe we should manufacture them so that we are not dependent on their imports.

“The IATF adopts the policy of mandatory public disclosure of personal information relating to positive COVID-19 cases to enhance the contact tracing efforts of the government.” The Data Privacy Act allow the government to disclose sensitive personal data on cases of national security. In this case, data needed for contact tracing of of people who tested positive for covid-19. This does not apply to Persons Under Investigation (PUIs) or Persons Under Monitoring (PUMs). My opinion as a data privacy officer is that the personal data to be released should only be the name of the patient, the patient’s home address and the patient’s whereabouts for that past 14 days from the date the patient was tested as the name of the person or persons the patient was in close contact with during those 14 days.

And I just read some news that Japan drops China over this pandemic. I am not surprised. The US is putting some heavy thought into taking out their manufacturing from China as well.

And then there’s this news about China-backed hackers attacking linux servers. Hmmm maybe it’s time to hack them back.

I restarted my exercises. The first should always be easy and increasing the difficulty as I progress through the week. I’ll see where I am by Friday. The target is just to get fit.