JUST as the prospect of a weapon against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) made its appearance, so did a supposedly new strain that is rumored to be more contagious. In Tuguegarao City alone, there has been a marked increase in infections, and talk is rife once more about sending the whole city into lockdown.
Do we resign ourselves to this situation of restricted travel, an economy teetering on the brink of collapse and lockdowns that are lifted for a while and then reimposed? I do not advocate recklessness. The threat is very real, painfully real to many, who lost their loved ones to this dreadful plague, among them people dear to me such as Archbishop Oscar Cruz and Sen. Heherson Alvarez. But equally detestable to me is all this talk about the “new normal” that is really abnormal for it bespeaks of the refusal on our part to wrest normalcy back — normalcy without equivocation.
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