Five days, five days of not even touching the keyboard of my computer. I just rely on my CP and tab to be updated on social media. I experienced the lowest stats in the last three days at 45 views average but that is irrelevant to me now.
I am more focused on the latest news about this deadly virus. Called up some friends too to get updated. I talked to my brother in the province last night and told him about their mayor’s directive that those with private cars register them at the municipal hall to ferry those people who don’t have any means of transport. He told me, no way, he is the only driver available now and he’s been ill the past year. His car is too small for that so called social distancing. And how would you know if these people are healthy and are not carriers? Hospitals and puericulture centers are sorely lacking in the province and there are no good doctors to take care of the sick. Come to think of it, they don’t even have thermal scanners, how much more with the PPEs?
The president is missing. He has been missing since they approved around 275B budget to combat this virus. That was about a week ago. The sad thing is, we still don’t have enough test kits for the people. These so called VIPs in the government are being prioritized for testing to the detriment of those ordinary citizens who need help. We are losing good doctors, specialists in their own field. We have frontliners who are mostly on self-quarantine and some are patients too in the hospital.
I was aghast at the news peddled by our Department of Health (DOH). Three days ago, their speaker told us in an interview that those test kits that came in from china are defective, only 40% reliable so they set it aside. People might come out false-positive. Here comes china’s ambassador telling DOH that those test kits didn’t come from them. Yesterday, the DOH chief, Dr. Duque published a message that those test kits from china adhere to the requirements of WHO, they are 100% effective. How would you call that, clearly pondering and still defending china with this blunder? I say, it is laban o bawi.
A friend of our neighbors gave them 100 sacks of rice to distribute to those who aren’t able to afford to buy. Earlier on, he called me and asked Josef if he could drop by and he will give us some. He gave us around 25 kilos of rice. There are so many people outside, some even reaching our gate so they could have their meager share of the free rice.
Have we reached this somehow desperate move by our citizens to go on a long line just to have two kilos of rice? Nakaawa sila di ba?
In a short span, the line has doubled. it was just a few minutes ago that they were done distributing. I craved for pancakes, so yesterday, Jovy made some for our snacks. She also made vanilla ice cream for Oreo and chocolate ice cream for us. We are now using the two boxes of baking supplies previously allotted to their small business.
duterte is supposed to give an assessment on what they have started since he was given emergency powers by the Legislative branch of government a week ago. He was supposed to speak at around 4pm today but he was a no show. They might again choose to air what he has to say around midnight or thereafter when most people are sound asleep. I don’t see any changes, our hospitals are still begging for donations of PPEs from the private sector. VP Leni Robredo is on the ground, she is the only one visible but duterte didn’t even give her a position in his administration. She is doing everything, some given through private donations so she could help the frontliners. There is a very small budget allotted to the Office of the Vice-President but private businesses have enough trust in her to do the job. they don’t trust duterte.
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