NAGPAHAYAG ng kanyang kalungkutan at pagkadismaya ang magaling at award-winning actor na si John Arcilla kaugnay ng ipinatutupad 
na enhanced community quarantine o lockdown sa bansa.
Namatay kasi ang kanyang butihing ama at gustuhin man niyang makita ang mga labi nito ay hindi niya magagawa dahil sa mahigpit na checkpoint at travel restrictions na nakasaad sa alintuntunin ng quarantine.
Nasa Baler, Quezon kasi (ang kanyang lugar ng kapanganakan),nakalagak ang labi ng ama.
Ito ang emosyonal na mensahe niya sa kanyang Facebook account;
“Dear friends, my father is gone not because of COVID. If not for the Quarantine which I believe is necessary, and this painful circumstance which understandably need not to favor with our grieving family, I would not express anything about my father’s fate.
I do not feel good announcing the passing of someone very dear to me. But the feeling of not seeing even his body for the last time while we’re just here 5 hours away from him, isn’t easy to handle.
“His body is in Baler and due to this situation, wakes and celebrations of mass are not allowed,” aniya. “Our family wishes to cremate his body and pray together with his urn after this LOCKDOWN but we don’t have crematoriums in Baler and travel permits are complicated to process. The funeral services cannot send their staff with my father’s remains in Cabanatuan or Manila.
“They can get a travel permit from the origin, but their staff has to be quarantined for 2 weeks or more in their second destination, and has to settle another set of travel permit. So my father’s body will just stay in a Funeral Chapel for two days without the wake and will be buried with restricted attendance of people the next day. Half the number of my siblings is here in Manila and all the grandchildren are based here. We also need to settle travel permits but they cannot guarantee if the checkpoints will allow us to come back to Manila after 2-3 days. Most probably, they will send us back to Baler or we have to be quarantined for 14 days or so in Baler or in between towns. I do not blame anyone for the situation,” dugtong niya.
Gayunpaman, humihingi na lang daw siya ng dasal para sa pagyao ng kanyang mahal na ama.
“My sense of judgement and reasons fully understood the consequences. I just need to express something that is too much bear. Please pray for our family most specially for my beloved father, Dominador Alemania Arcilla. Thank you for reading this. God bless you all,” pagtatapos niya.
Si John ay nagmarka sa kanyang pagganap sa historical epic na Heneral Luna.
