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Written on 24 March 2020 as a contribution to the efforts to convince people to stay put and stay home as a first response to the appeal made to citizens. Taking off from a line in the poet John Milton’s Sonnet on his efforts to overcome obstacles imposed by his blindness, the piece provides a rationale for staying put in place to try and put a stop to the pandemic that was beginning to grow in the country as it swept other parts of the globe. This piece was published in Rappler and an adapted version in the Jesuit magazine, America, in NY, USA