Cabin Fever

How do we survive cabin fever as the pandemic quarantine stretches to a month? We dream, we squirm, we imagine, we fantasize, we eat, we watch the world through electronic eyes, we cook, we read, we grieve, we exercise, we rant.

PF publisher Mona Lisa Yuchengco, in part 3 of her "Life (and Love) in the Time of the Coronavirus" talks about what she does and does not do, as the unrelenting virus continues to upend everyone's routines.

Off-tangent dreams is what Canada-based contributor Patria Cabatuando Rivera writes about in "COVID Dreams in Toronto."

Reading of course can be salvation from the drudgery of home-based routines, so here's a reading list I've put together of impressive Filipino-authored books you might want to order online.

If you've lost a loved one recently -- an experience that, according to the Worldometer tally, 176,596 families worldwide have gone through, here's a way of "Tending Grief in Community," a suggestion by retired professor Leny Mendoza Strobel. 

And if you can see travel to exotic places like Finland in your personal crystal ball, here's 2 Filipino-owned restaurants -- Pobre and Paisano -- to try in Helsinki as covered by intrepid traveler Michael Gil Magnaye in "Filipino Fine Dining in Finland."

Since we all now have the time to cook, try out Pobre's recipe for Pike Perch Pesa

Our In The Know links expand our Covid-19 coverage:

On Pandemic’s Front Lines, Nurses From Half a World Away
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/20/world/asia/coronavirus-philippines-nurses.html?fbclid=IwAR0xlwriAQ4pRzTn_NML-kuCHivJ-FH99TyKwvcN9OysxoprVCn5Ubmzs_I

Coronavirus exerts heavy toll on Filipino community in UK
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/17/coronavirus-exerts-heavy-toll-on-filipino-community-in-uk?fbclid=IwAR1_xBt4Dz7-2jZsTdVmfz5hCm4Pmzu3OVnn6Ej7QcL-VI5dVpyHpNAn3Xg

‘Bayanihan Musikahan’ now aids rural farmers and urban poor
https://lifestyle.inquirer.net/361046/bayanihan-musikahan-now-aids-rural-farmers-and-urban-poor/?fbclid=IwAR2VAtpbnmtasfMnlg4pLraioIaqr-BLSAH8n4g54_qOEZVvs_98cD6FqzY

Coronavirus: UK Citizens Furious at L 1000 Repatriation Flights from the Philippines while Travellers in Peru Paid L 250
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/coronavirus-uk-travellers-repatriation-flights-philippines-peru-a9447966.html?fbclid=IwAR3GxJAktODn7RB6h9x6s5YlBoxkiJhtYnyn3tenAcVYo5mOx7hDQgcCrcE

A Daughter’s Heartbreak: A California Mother Loses Battle to Covid-19
https://balitangamerica.tv/a-daughters-heartbreak-california-mother-loses-battle-to-covid-19/?fbclid=IwAR2gb42WFym4aoNi0qe6BmcFqAjBNjVxOSfLXVA_-UYTi0WETIDUBjJHMeg

Sheltering In Place When You’re Half the World Away from Home
https://gen.medium.com/sheltering-in-place-when-youre-half-a-world-away-from-home-3869ad0cf662

'Inseparable' New Jersey couple, both health care workers, die of coronavirus days apart
https://news.yahoo.com/married-44-years-inseparable-jersey-211632538.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=ma

And our Video of the Week, here's a musical tribute to the Filipino frontliners all over the world produced by the Department of Education of the Philippines.