A web of checkpoints, barricades and roving enforcers all across Luzon island - home to more than 50 million, and the size of South Korea - is making sure half of the Philippines' population stays put.
Our vulnerabilities are suddenly exposed. That, in turn, is making us more empathetic. We realise we need one another. So we offer to help, in any way we can. Those without much in life are offering the only resource they can spare: their time. A cashier at a grocery near where I live told me she now walks 6km a day just to get to work because there are no more buses, jeepneys, ride-sharing cars and motorcycles, and even motorised rickshaws on the road because of the lockdown. Riding pillion is now prohibited.
She said her boss told her she did not have to come in if she was not able to get a ride. But she said she walks because she wants to help out. LUZON ON LOCKDOWN: These places used to be teeming with unbridled consumerism. Now, they're ghost towns. The only signs of life were a few joggers, dog walkers and security guards looking after them.
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