Has anybody tried to get a travel pass?

My girlfriend missed her family so I helped her get back to Mindanao by airplane. Following the requirements for a LSI (locally-stranded individual) goes something like this:

1. Monitor your temperature AM and PM, and symptoms, for 14 days (but you can just make this data up if you can't get real temperature recordings -- everybody fakes this part)
2. Get a LSI Registration Form from the local Barangay Hall
3. Get a Daily Individual Signs and Symptoms Log Sheet from the local health center
4. Have the health center Nurse on Duty sign off on your log sheet
5. Bring the log sheet back to the Barangay office and have them give you a Mandatory Quarantine Certification
6. Bring the certification to the City Hall and have the mayor's office sign off on a Travel Pass
7. Bring the Travel Pass to the Police Department so they can clear you for travel.

The whole thing should take 3 days, and you will wait in line for 3 or more hours a day each day.

Since I'm a foreigner they added an extra step between steps 5 and 6... I was turned away at the City Hall and they told me I had to go get some extra form from the City Health Office, which was very crowded. I felt like I was gonna get sick just waiting there with everyone, so I'm gonna try again on Monday and go early in the morning.

Also as a foreigner I needed to get an Exit Clearance at the Bureau of Immigration, which was also not fun. I've had 2 flights cancelled so far. All I can do is hope they bring Manila back to GCQ after Aug 18th so I can finally leave, as my visa expires early September.

Hay nako.

Hindi ako masaya.