It's Christmas Eve and COVID-19 is still here! COVID-19 isn't taking a day or two off just because it's December 24-25 and that it'd resume its operations on December 26 and take a break from December 31 to January 1, 2021, next year. Unfortunately, some Filipinos just NEVER learn away from the common, irritating bad habits during Christmas. I wonder if last-minute Christmas shopping is upheld as a Filipino tradition or if many Filipinos have even taken it as a proud Christmas tradition. It's December 24 and checking the GPS - I'm amazed at how BAD traffic still is and its COVID-19 season. This just shows how many Filipinos STILL refuse to re-think their Christmas traditions at the cost of law-abiding Filipinos.
I'm still thinking about how some of my peers have already prepared their simpler Noche Buenas. It's because mass gatherings are still heavily discouraged. True, businesses have opened but employees may have to settle for pinaskohans over Christmas parties. That means the boss will simply give them something else because he or she doesn't want to hold a Christmas party during the COVID-19 season. Yet, some Filipinos will be caught red-handed breaking that SIMPLE GUIDELINE of NO MASS GATHERING. Yesterday, I'm amazed at how some people were still playing their stereos at LOUD and I could hear collective merrymaking.
Others haven't bought what they need for the Noche Buena because of many collective factors. One of the biggest factors would be poor budgeting habits. Why do you think they don't do their Christmas shopping in November? It's because they're still waiting for their 13th-month payments and Christmas bonuses. Another factor behind them not doing early Christmas shopping is their love for procrastination. They think December is still far away in November. They could've started budgeting yet they squander the money. Some of them may be relying on OFW remittance which they waste all-year-round so they don't have money during Christmas. The solution seems to be reliant on the use of five-six lending because of the ease of borrowing. What they don't consider is that five-six lenders are ILLEGAL and that for every PHP 5.00 they pay PHP 6.00. Yet, they still borrow without thinking because celebrations get treated as necessities or as recreational drugs. Then they do their last-minute Christmas shopping.
Until now, I still can't fully understand why they even prefer last-minute Christmas shopping. I guess I don't understand it is because I AVOID IT. Maybe, it's because we go Christmas shopping a week before Christmas Eve. Is it because of the thrill of it? Is it because they want to really fight for that last item like it was in the movie Jingle All the Way when Harold (Arnold Schwarzenegger) had to fight off not against Predators or the serpent men minions of Thulsa Doom (James Earl Jones) from the 1982 version of Conan the Barbarian - it was hordes of last-minute shoppers to get that Turboman toy he should've bought a month ago! Do they even imagine themselves as last-minute action heroes when they do their last-minute Christmas shopping? I guess COVID-19 adds to the thrill never mind the danger that it poses. Worse, they're making Christmas worse for COVID-19 frontliners by not helping at all. Their next move is to BLAME THE GOVERNMENT when they catch COVID-19 even if it was THEIR FAULT.
Well, if those last-minute Christmas shoppers get COVID-19 then it's NOT MY PROBLEM. They sure want to say, "Hindi ko na problema yun. Problema na yan ng mga frontliners at pulis!" or "It's not my problem. It's the problem of the frontliners and the cops!" Now, I guess it's time for them to really get COVID-19 and maybe consider spending the holidays IN THE HOSPITAL.
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