BALLERTA, Carl Justin A.

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Online Anchor Activity #3

Asst. Prof Noel Asiones

Upon reading the module about the Sociological theories of Family, there's one theory
that summarizes what our family is. This theory is

Our Family’s Transformation

A family that prays together, stays together (Anonymous). It really is that this pandemic
created a lot of miracles within a family leaving behind though, the negative impact of this
pandemic. This paper generally intends to share the experiences of our family during this ECQ.
Additionally, it tackles as well on how we are battling this pandemic. And of course, this paper would
like to give inspiration to everyone about of how our family became more family as it was.

Pandemic was declared last March 11, 2020 by the World Health Organization due to this
Corona Virus Identified 2019 (COVID-19, in layman’s term,) or Corona Virus Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome (COV-SARS-2, which is the other name for COVID 19), that made the whole world
crumbled and panicked (WHO, 2020) . This Corona Virus was discovered in Wuhan, a province in
China and it spread rapidly through the entire area until it infected other countries as well. This virus
attacked the lungs of individuals that created this respiratory syndrome. And the most fearful
feature about this virus is DEADLY. And so with this, different countries’ government made policies
and guidelines to battle this killer Virus. Here in the Philippines, President Duterte implemented this
Enhance Community Quarantine last March 14, 2020 and it will end by… the day that it will be end is
cannot be determined yet. This ECQ minimizes the increasing cases of COVID 19 in the Philippines
and it helped in patching the hole of every family.

Yes, it really helped patching the hole in our family. Before ECQ, we, the members were
apart from each other. My mom, dad and sister were here in Ilocos meanwhile my elder brother is
on the board, and my eldest brother and I were in Manila. So, this was really sad because we were
not able to touch each other. However, we just need to call to see every members of the family. But
through this ECQ, I was able to go home here in Ilocos, my eldest brother could not made it because
of his duty in his work but he really wanted to go home. My elder brother couldn’t made it as well
because he is still a cadet and they need not to go down from the ship. But how come I said that this
ECQ patched the hole in our family? This topic is very confidential but I will disclose this for I want to
give inspiration to the reader.
 The first hole in our family is low security. During this pandemic, we the boys in the family
together with our dogs became the security guards of our place- our home. As men, we need to
protect women in this times most especially there are a lot of people trying to trespass here in our
place. Security doesn’t mean that we have weapons or something but security as in giving
importance to the family when it comes to protection. While being security guards, the women in
the house are somewhat prohibited to go outside of the house. The second hole is undivided tasks.
It’s funny right? Yes, household chores before ECQ were never be divided among the members
because we were all busy at our own pace. However, ECQ made us to apply the principle of Division
of Labor wherein the tasks are equally divided among as family members. On washing dishes, my
sister and I were exchanging the job per day. On washing clothes per week, I am the one hanging the
clothes while my sister and mom help each other in washing. On preparing dishes, my dad is the King
of our Cuisine. On cleaning inside the house, my sister do this job while cleaning our surroundings is
my jurisdiction of duty. On plants, my dad is focused on planting while my mom is in watering the
plants. This division of labor made us work efficiently and effectively throughout this ECQ. The third
hole is health risk. We were health conscious before ECQ but during this pandemic we become more
as it was. We were not regularly washing hands but now, every minute we tend to wash our hands.
Before we were not using alcohol or hand sanitizer but now we have enough stock for alcohol and
sanitizer just to avoid this virus. Along with this, our family became cleaner not physically but
internally as we cleanse our minds from works, our body from stress, our hearts from negative
emotions and our soul from sins. Prayer made us more intact in the family, yes the fourth hole is lack
of prayers. We often pray on our own but during this ECQ it made us one in praying not only for
ourselves but for the humanity as well. We managed to join the online masses most especially in the
Holy Week. Every 6 pm we pray the Angelus and the Oratio Imperata. Prayer is the greatest vaccine
to combat this COVID-19. The fifth hole is compassion. During this pandemic, we have decided to
help marginalized people in our community. We bought goods and repacked it and then we gave it
to them but of course following the social distancing. This act of kindness is what makes us more
grateful for what we have. We realized that no matter how rich you are, the money cannot do
anything. This repacking became one of our bonding moments with each other. The sixth hole is me.
Yes it was me who made one hole in the family. This is the first time I will share this. I am not so
close to my parents most especially to my father. My mother didn’t want me to study in UST but I
still pursued them to give me the University that I want. My father was angry at me not because of
my chosen University but because of my gender. He doesn’t want me to become who really I am and
all that he wanted is a straight son. While studying in UST, I feel like I am not so into it because of
those circumstances. However, thankfully, this pandemic gave me a room to open this up with my
parents and told to them what I truly feel. Fortunately, they understand me and I understand them
as well.

Every family has challenges to face. Every home there are holes but the members kept in
patching these holes so that the home will become even stronger. All of those holes in our family,
really made us weak, but because of this pandemic, we realized a lot of things and reflected from
these. This time of crisis, the most important thing to do is to make fruitful memories with the family
and make the bond even tighter and stronger. We are family before but as we patched altogether
these holes, our family became the family we ever wanted to be.