The crisis we knew had to come
People march back into their respective workplaces ready to face the New Year once again like they always have. Whether this New Year will be a better one is a …
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2020 was a shit year for Filipinos, but not necessarily because of COVID-19
I find it interesting that Filipinos are so shocked about how 2020 was such a “shit” year. While it is true that the Philippines is one amongst the worst sufferers …
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Use of face shields in the Philippines is an OA overreaction
Is it just me, or does anyone else think that the excessive use and prescription of face shields in the Philippines is just another one of those shrill overreactions propagated …
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Why the rich get access to the COVID-19 vaccine FIRST before the poor
First let’s do the math and take stock of the science. It takes big bucks, and lots of intellectual capital to develop a vaccine — more so to do it …
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The Philippines is reverting back to an agrarian economy thanks to COVID-19
Nothing necessarily bad about agrarian societies though these get their bad rep from their association with the Third World and “underdevelopment”. Some “economists” would measure “modernisation” in terms of the …
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COVID-19 economic collapse is the crisis the Philippines had to have!
Filipinos can no longer rely on their traditional gravy trains — OFWism, work outsourced from the First World, foreign investment, and foreign aid — to prop up their labour-added-value economy. …
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The DISHONEST blame-Duterte-for-the-COVID-19-pandemic platform of the Philippine Opposition
The most overused “dissent” template of the Philippine Opposition is that the “(insert issue name here) issue” is the fault of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte. Because this has been used …
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Instead of blaming the gov’t for the rise in COVID-19 cases, people should take responsibility for keeping their communities safe
I was having a conversation with a friend about the COVID-19 pandemic the other day. I asked him why people around the world, not just in the Philippines, blame their …
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