UNIVERSITY professor Emma Porio laments jokingly that the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) crisis has forced her and two friends — unofficially the Walking Ladies of Alta Vista Village in Quezon City — to suspend their daily morning jog around the place.

An active officer of the village homeowners and residents’ association, Emma, however, continues to hold online classes for the Ateneo de Manila University where she has been a faculty member of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology-School of Social Sciences for many years. She is also arranging the online thesis defense sessions of her graduate students.

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