History Continues Amidst Pandemic Issues

Vigan Town Fiesta, October 4, 2017, Retrieved from https://vigan.paradores.ph/project/vigan-town-fiesta/

Celebrating different occasions such as fiesta, festivals, or other festivities here in the Philippines these past decades always involved huge crowds with loads of cheering and noises. However due to the hit of the pandemic, every festivities were canceled to avoid the further spread of the COVID-19 virus, of course, includes the Vigan City Fiesta celebration.

Fiesta celebrations are supposed to be filled with fun, excitement, and laughter for us to feel the essence of the celebration bit because of the pandemic, it is mandatory to cancel every festival celebration and avoid creating huge crowds that can cause the increase of COVID-19 cases here in our country. That is why the Vigan City fiesta celebration was canceled. However, even if we cannot physically celebrate the celebration, there are other safe ways of celebrating it. Instead of going out, causing a commotion outside, and gathering or creating crowds to feel the fiesta, we can express our excitement through social media. We can participate in events organized online that we think can cover up the emptiness of the crowd through online meet-ups.

That is why amidst the pandemic, we can still somehow feel the essence of the fiesta celebration even if we don’t gather and meet personally. Thanks to the advancement in technology, it fills in the gap of emptiness because we can always meet up with our friends, families, or relatives through social media such as Zoom, Google meet, or Skype. In that way, we can all celebrate the Vigan City Fiesta no matter where we are or whenever we want.

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