We beg to differ.
Here we go again — the infamous “sick man of Asia” label. A throwback to the Marcos era is all “economist” Winnie Monsod could come up with in her Inquirer piece “Why we are again the sick man of Asia”. You would think that the Opposition would be creative enough to come up with a…
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Sinophobia and tobacco. Mareng Winnie throws everything at China. In her Inquirer column today “A victory for tobacco, a defeat for our children”, Monsod writes… Wasn’t China the source of the virus in the first place? Not only that, didn’t China try to cover up its virus situation in the second place? The virus, indeed,…
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Pandemic blues. It appears that the pandemic has also affected the mindset of the Opposition. Millennials and those younger than them are all criticizing the government for its pandemic response. You see them on Twitter manifesting mental weakness. They are the biggest voting bloc. These 21-49 year olds number 40 million as of the last…
People making the most noise in these times of COVID-19 pandemic are likely those who lost a lot and have a lot more to lose as the crisis persists. It seems though that it is not necessarily those who lost loved ones per se who are the most shrill about this pandemic and are the…
Would the Opposition “thought leaders” currently screeching “UNFAIR!” be happy under such a scenario? Is a senior member of the Cabinet subject to the same prioritisation that ordinary Filipinos are? Think of it for a moment. If senior national government officials are to be placed in tents outside of hospitals come the time that they…
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The buzz of the week among the hoi polloi of the Philippines’ chattering classes is Malacanang spokesman Harry Roque. Roque who recently contracted COVID-19 managed to get himself admitted into hospital despite a long queue as Metro Manila’s decrepit health care infrastructure creaks under the weight of an enormous number of infections. Facing criticism for…
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The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed humankind’s long-ignored exposure to the risk of virulent diseases running wild and severely impacting the world order. It all but levelled the playing field. People from both rich and poor countries were not spared from the disease’s harmful, and in a lot of cases, deadly effects on the human body….
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Filipinos have been on edge lately as the daily average number of confirmed COVID-19 infections has been breaching 10,000 the last several days. With hospitals bursting at the seams and lockdowns over the foreseeable future casting a grim pall over people’s lifestyles and livelihoods, people are looking for comfort and answers. Popular Australia-born starlet Anne…
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