![]() Volunteer doctors from different specialties will be able to provide patient care through a virtual clinic, in support of the fight against the new coronavirus COVID-19. All the while, the men suffered at home as day 32 of quarantine plunged them deeper into their anxious impulses oh, the horror: Typical man suffering at home during lockdown TOP NEWS and TIDBITS: Doctors for Panama program launched in the fight against COVID-19 No sir, today the ladies, in their stylish form, were direct and punctual as they gracefully swayed their way first to produce, smoothly on to canned goods and then finally scratching off the items of their mental list in the dairy section. What you didn’t see today was a single handwritten “shopping list” or the wandering, inquisitive eyes of a lost soul searching for bread flour in the potato chip aisle. If you think the men were upset for having to stay home, you should have seen the semi-revolutionaries that took to the streets today. ROWS AND ROWS OF WOMEN Women queue patiently outside a supermarket during COVID-19 Lockdown in PanamaĪs would be expected, the supermarkets in Panama were overflowing with an angry lot of women who were stuck with having to do the shopping and errands that their male companions would have done on Saturday. I guess this is just a matter of patience and frequent visits to my happy place until we get a positive response. Max Meta from MAM Security was able to get 100% of his personnel into the system yesterday on the first try classic Israeli efficiency! In fact, many of my colleagues in security were also successful. Brett’s “Happy Place” during curfewĪlso, good friend John Brock who many in the Pedasi area know and tolerate… …oops, I meant LOVE, was also successful in getting his salvoconducto. My sigh of relief came when he admitted that the requests for reconsideration were being handled manually by a team of expert researchers who were going to work Friday, Saturday and Sunday until midnight if needed until all requests were properly answered. (It took me 24 continuous, OCD attempts at getting through to them when I did finally decide to call.) The operator, who was obviously stressed but pleasant, did say that the April 21 deadline to get the salvoconductos updated was still in effect. ![]() ![]() The website is overloaded and the phones were ringing off the hook. MICI informed me via their 504-4420 salvoconducto hotline, that they were seriously overwhelmed with calls, emails and even personal visits to their Plaza Edison office. Although I didn’t get a response to my reconsideration, I did get a decent amount of information on what’s going on thanks to MICI and several friends and colleagues. Today really just felt a lot like yesterday, with a splash of “It’s Friday, but my body doesn’t even know it.” Fought the hard fight today on understanding why I still don’t have an answer to my salvoconducto request, (which was initially denied and then followed by my request for reconsideration after denial). ![]()
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