This front page layout by the Philippine Star today is clearly a deliberate attempt to mislead Filipino readers into thinking that a forecast number of COVID cases to hit the Philippines in May issued by the World Health Organisation (WHO) is related to a massive Bongbong Marcos – Sara Duterte rally held in Cebu City….
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I’m with Mareng Winnie on this one. Monsod writes in her Inquirer piece “Galvez’s math leaves much to be desired” countering National Task Force (NTF) Against Covid-19 chair Carlito Galvez’s optimistic appraisal of the vaccination situation in the Philippines… His arithmetic leaves much to be desired. He said that 19 to 25 million people will…
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“Penalize” Winnie says? The vaccine supply situation at present is similar to the alcohol supply situation in Bangladesh when I was there on business in 1998 – you drank what was available given it’s an Islamic country. You had no choice. In her Inquirer column today “Why penalize us for choosing better vaccine?”, Winnie Monsod…
It’s actually the Opposition incessant criticizing leading to things being debated to death and not, as Inquirer columnist and former Communications Undersecretary Manolo Quezon III (MLQ3) claims in his piece “Debating things to death” that “those who try to solve problems in the Philippines get crucified for it.” Quezon then goes on to write… …at…
Why can’t Duterte fix this simple problem within his own turf? That critical projects to build large vaccination facilities got this far and became an unncessary PR problem explains why we are in this mess. Sheer incompetence! Do you think government officials actually use their heads? Nope. The default mindset of the bureaucrats is they…
The Opposition repeatedly made an issue of the President’s statements with regard to the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine. The first claim was it was more expensive than Western vaccines which provided the perception of anomalies in procurement. The second point was efficacy. It was supposed to be largely ineffective in its intended purpose. Then came the…
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No one has noticed how most of the “projects” of the Office of the Vice President (OVP) can’t be scaled. In short, it’s only good for PR and projection. If Robredo really is a servant-leader as she claims, the strategies her staff thinks of should be scaleable. In this case, her office only focuses on…
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Filipino showbiz starlet Liza Soberano tweets something about the “plight” of Filipinos in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and all of Yellowtardom gush to the high heavens. If we examine the substance of in Soberano’s tweets, we will find that there is none — or at least nothing that is original. All there is…
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A disturbing video making the rounds shows an enormous crowd of fans of popular television host Willie Revillame who was reportedly celebrating his birthday last night. Most of the people in the crowd seem to be wearing masks and face shields but are not practicing the prescribed physical distancing between one another. It's almost midnight…
This, according to economist Jeffrey Sachs on why the Philippines can’t seem to get its COVID-19 response act together while other countries can… “If we were rational and well-governed, we would actually find a way through this without massive pain and suffering,” he noted. “The epidemic is itself controllable through rational policies.” Thing is, the…
