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President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr. has issued Executive Order No. 3 that allowed the “voluntary wearing of face masks in outdoor settings.” EO No. 3, which was signed on Sept. 12, 2022, was based on the recommendation of the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) after it took into consideration the fact that 93 percent of our target population (equivalent to 72 million Filipinos) have been fully vaccinated. It also noted that a further 18 million individuals have received booster doses.

We’ve received a bit of good news last week from the World Health Organization. WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the press that the world is in a better position to end the Covid-19 pandemic. In his own words, we are not there yet “but the end is in sight.”

In 2021, we opened the first letter writing cafe in the Philippines fittingly named Dear Joe. The idea behind Dear Joe is simple, romantic, and quaint, possibly old fashioned. The coffee shop is the perfect setting to do something that has been lost because of the rise of modern communications technologies – write letters; handwritten letters.