Ano, lugaw is non essential? Experience of food delivery rider

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Rizal Philippines

3.31.2021

Lugaw as non essential says a Barangay frontliner in Bulacan.

This event underscores the variety of interpretation by frontliners of IATF instructions/laws.  This makes life for the masses doubly difficult:    restricted movement and tyranical implementation of regulations as this one.   

Since when Lugaw, a food item becomes non essential?  Ano you can survive without lugaw?    (Sige na)

So more training more explanation more understanding of the instructions.  But in general, the easiest way to implement orders is to go for the strictest implementation to minimize deviation and time decision making by persons with limited ability to judge and decide.

We just hope the covid19 has not affected the way our people think from the IATF leadership down to the frontliners.  Such events make fighting covid19 more challenging

Where to get the funding for relief, covid facilities and ayuda

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Rizal Philippines

3.28,2021

This post is rather alarmed about the huge outlay that were needed for BAHO laws 1 and 2, allegedly to be used for testing contract tracing quarantine facilties vaccines and more..  The country has incurred huge debts, mosly from multilateral organizations.

And yet our lawmakers and some leaders speak as if we we have endless source of funding for all of these:

1.  A solon has a TV ad to convince the Congress to give P10,000 each of citizens during this later part of Pandemic.

2.  Where has all the money gone  -  those that were budgetted by Congress.   The appeal by a Senator for an audit and/or accounting of the billions would seem to have fallen on deaf ears

'From devex

 

Ano mga inaasahan sa ECQ

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Rizal Philippines

3.28,2021

What are to be expected during the ECQ?

1 ...EQ, Passes will be required?

2.  Checkpoints will there be plenty?

3.  Police behavior - will they be stricter or more brutal?  

4.  Public transport?   Will they be available or transportation will be limited.

RESULTS  -   WILL THE NUMBER OF CASES HOVER AT 10,000 OR MORE?

                        WILL THE CURVE FLATTEN?

Ayuda -  for the  ECQ duration will there be ayuda?

San Agustin Church on a lockdown after Parish Priest dies

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Rizal Philippines

3.28.2021

PDI - San Agustin church on a lockdown

Amidst the negotiation between CBCP and the IATF for leniency on church masses, the San Agustin church in Intramuros had to be closed because its priest Fr Arnold Canoza succumbed to covid19.  

Earlier the  head of Manila church leadership declared displeasure with the govt order because it compared the leniency to spa and gyms.  (Which IATF also banned) and imposing such a ban during Holy Week period.   Bishop Broderick Pabillo issues letter to defy govt ban on mass gatherings. 

Without wishing to offend the church leadership, let us point out again:

1.  The church events were spreader places for covid19 being enclosed, people stay close together, there is poor ventilation.

2.  Other church sects leaders in USA died including some of their members died from covid after defying orders to stop holding mass gatherings.

3.  It is scary now because of super spreader variants.

4.  My personal experience is that the places which seemed to be immune from infection is now.

We do not know who are the carriers.  The temperature measurement can not ferret out asymptomatic individuals. 

Rather than argue with the public health officials leader, it is safer and saner move just to obey.  

The pandemic highlighted certan weakness in our society:   love of entitlement, exemptions and exceptions, pride.    Me first.  Certain sectors sense of superiority over others.        Death can be a penalty for continuance of such habit.  

Singitan maski sa bakunahan, hindi maiwasan

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Rizal Philippines

3.26.2021

Video sa singitan ng bakunahan

The country is in danger of losing 44 million doses from Covax due to irregularities in implementation of vaccination priorities ( Some local LGU executive officers had themselves vaccinated ahead of the priority list)

This is indicative of:

      1.  Culture of entitlement  -   me first

      2.  Abuse of power (what are we in power of)

      3.  Being pasaway (defiance and insubordination)

Maraming ayaw pumila,   Dapat ako muna.  Kaya may press pass, badge syndrome marami.   Wangwang 

kayabangan.  

I travel abroad, I seen numerous cases of Pinoy sumisingit sa pila

There are many cases of vehicular accidents wherein the offending action was  pagsingit

Number of active users on soc media apps

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Rizal Philippines

3.24.2021

Top apps at internet

     If we combine the numbers for instagram, whats app messenger, the combined resources of the businesses owned by that entity is huge and may invite anti trust ruling from their home country.   

The billions of active users in the soc media giants is simply mind boggling and would  inspire awe and fright of its its power and might.   And they have fought other giants as well and not so kind to its contributors.   

However it seems to be having problems:

     1.  Static number of users at home country

     2.   Compeition

     3.   A number of issues -  privacy data breach. 

Quite a number have deleted their accounts permanently because of privacy issues    A numbe of multinationals have left FB for their ads 

Decline in FB users

I suppose the active users are not people who post articles, pictures,  but it includes:

     1.  likes

     2.  emojis

     3.  comments

     4.  like comments

     5.  reply to comments and like of logged in user.   

Those who make original posts still remain probably with Google and that is where real power the net is;  not in shallow likes and reactions.  

Circuit breaker or stricter lock down measures? IATF resolution No. 104

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Rizal Philippines

3.24.2021

The rising number of covid19 cases has prompted the IATF that in charge of covid19 control and spread to place Rizal Laguna, Cavite Bulacan, NCR and certain other cities under GCQ... (granular lockdown)

Checkpoints, police visibility are back in place;  tickets arrests are taking place.   No worry though - we need these to control rise of covid19.  But the policemen should understand the why of what they are enforcing so that they will be infected less, and the measures would be more effective;   The checkpoint, arrests mindset modes must be jelled with science.   

Gen Eleazar clarified that there is no need to restrict mobility within the bubble because lockdown checkpoint happy PNP personnel are just happy to do that.  

The draconian measures are up to April 4 only though.   

Availability of covid19 wards, ICU on critical level; expansion of capacity limited by lack of nurses

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Rizal Philippines

3.24, 2021.

https://newsinfo.inquirer.net/1410176/hospitals-asked-to-hike-covid-beds

The rising number of cases daily has swamped all available hospital beds in MM;   Usec L. Vega plans use of outside NCR hospitals for augmentation.  

But really what holds back the augmentation is lack of trained nurses to man the ICU and CCUs for the covid 19

There was a point really in banning deployment of nurses abroad.   We really need to inject some sense into the heads of selfish  unpatriotic professionals.

To ban or not to ban health workers deployment

BUHAY O HANAPBUHAY.?

Thoughts on Big Religious organization defiance of ban on mass gatherings

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Rizal Philippines

3.23.2021

The largest religious group today defied the order of IATF which controls the public health regulations during the covid19 pandemic   The govt has threatened to use its police power to close down organizations defying the govt laws and regulations.

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/03/23/21/manila-archdiocese-to-open-churches-on-holy-week-palace-warns-vs-defiance-of-covid-curbs

With due respect to the church top echelons:

1.  The scriptures  in Romans,, admonishes every one to follow authorities who run the govt as authorized by God Himself   https://www.bibleref.com/Romans/13/Romans-13-1.html

2.  There were deaths in US attributed to continuance of church services despite the ban.  The pastors themselves died.   https://www.usnews.com/news/us/articles/2020-03-31/louisiana-pastor-says-hell-keep-violating-coronavirus-ban

3.  The science data has records of super spread attributed to religious rites and gatherings.  

It is not discrimination between spas, gyms and church;  it is about protecting lives of many people, and stopping the march of covid19 which is on the rise.    It is not about lessening the church importnce in the lives of the people nor their powers and authority

Can we obey and bring  order to this troubled country.?

Clarity on how covid is transmitted - THROUGH 3 CS -- CROWDS, CLOSE PERSONAL CONTACT, ENCLOSED SPACES

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Rizal Philippines

3.23.2021

Despite stringent measures, covid19 cases have surged and registered the highest increase this March 2021 of 8000 cases.

What has caused this surge?

      1.  Growing laxity because of the  on going vaccination

      2.  Too early opening of the economy?

      3.  Mix up on understanding of the mechanism of covid19 transmission

      4.  Politicalized and or militarized implementation of countermeasures vs covid 19

This post would like to touch on #3.   Many have been influenced by the movie ""Pandemic" where many are led to believe that the virus is transmitted via fomite.

In many literature available, covid19 is a drop infection and is spread by saliva or sputum coming from a sneezing, talking, coughing or singing individual  in an en closed  space, crowd and close personal contract.   And the virus attaches to mostly moist tissues of the throat and nose.  The virus being only made of molecules and not of living organism can not exist in an open atmosphere especially where there are elevated temperature.

      But what measures do we see:

      1.  Foot bath;

      2.  Disinfection

      3.  Lockdowns

      4.  Check points

      5.  Traffic control

In many parts most of the cases came from close personal contact with infected persons in hospitals (mostly that) or contact with persons in hospitals:  So we must be on guard always with first layer of infection or that of third (reinfection from the secondary contact)

All the above do not address the primary mode of infection.    3, 4, 5 are mere declaration and show of force and might by the government;  the disease transmission is minimally addressed by limiting and slowing the movement of persons.   

What the govt must watch are the family affairs:   parties, gatherings, baptism, funeral where people are carefree do not wear masks, talk freely, for hours, -  situations that are ripe for the covid19 transmission.

NO NEED TO WONDER

Soc Medias battle with city hall and its officials may backfire?

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Rizal Philippines

3.23.2021

Can you fight city hall and its officials.  The answer before was no

How much power has the media have now over society and leaders .  Awesome too much

We have witnessed how:

      1.  Soc Media ban on the messages of a Presidential candidate effectively ended his quest for

           for reelection

      2.  A soc media running afoul with a big govt may force the govt to legislate against the soc media

           because the former will ban news in the country because of the law the latter passed.

      3.   I have witnessed and experienced numerous blocking of pages and censorship of posts

            (We thought this was a neutral place to give free and post unsolicited articles )

Anything that is too much and powerful gets checked.  What is once big will become smaller.

Soc media platforms come and go for no reason at all.    We do not want to see this happen to this proud and now arrogant soc media platform.   May be this is no exception for what was originally a dating

platform