“Old normal” NEVER coming back, industrial-scale digitisation critical
The US reopening is a gamble that probably won’t pay off — not with the Indian variant becoming the dominant one soon enough. For one, it’s been confirmed that the …
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Imagine for a moment if Harry Roque was made to wait in a tent for COVID treatment…
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? …
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Filipinos are no experts on what it means to be Christian — or Unchristian
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 …
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The Philippines was a crisis waiting to happen even before COVID-19 struck
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 …
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The Philippine Opposition need to find a SMARTER way of using COVID-19 as an election-winning “issue”
Following the colossal collapse of their first opening campaign salvo, the ill-fated “1Sambayan” initiative, Filipinos are still holding their breath waiting for the Philippine Opposition’s next major brainwave. So far …
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Why the COVID-19 vaccine rollout in the Philippines is like a typical Manila rush hour experience
Watching how the COVID-19 comes available to the Filipino public in recent days reminds me of the state of public transport in the Philippines. The service is inconsistent and unpredictable …
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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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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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