ANGELatte

     Despite the nationwide resiliency, I also witnessed areas that had much room for improvement. On the other side of the coin are the Filipinos who saw that not everything that we’ve come to know of the Philippines and its system is insufficient. Turns out, our system is not fully equipped to handle a pandemic in an archipelago of over 106 million Filipinos and thousands of heavily-populated areas packed with countless households. When the first community-transmitted infection reached the slums, we knew that the virus would spread like wildfire.   We are the generation who first witnessed how it is like to pursue our studies amid a pandemic. But the crisis did not stop us nor our teachers. We were eager and we learned to brush it off as if saying, “Not today, #COVID -19,” although multiple health risks were knocking at our doorstep. For the ordinary Filipino, the efforts of the youth may be strange as some of us climb roofs and trees to join conversations. Still, we do them because