COMMONSENSE – Marichu A. Villanueva – The Philippine Star February 14, 2022 | 12:00am Exactly 23 months ago, our country closed down its borders from the rest of the global community following the early onset here of the deadly coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. From all indicative signs though, our country seems to be on the way out of the latest wave of COVID-19 pandemic due to the Omicron variant. And hopefully soon we might be able to follow the leads of other COVID-impacted countries in eventually doing away with mandatory facemasks and social distancing. But for now, we must c…