Wage hikes not enough?

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There are two opposing views on the wage hikes:

1.  Employer -  they are finding difficulties to grant this because of the business contraction from the pandemic.

2.  Employees -  the increase of P33/day is not enough to meet their daily needs. 

However some are thankful that this has been granted.  

After the political noise has died down, we find out that Duterte has plenty of achievements

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https://www.manilastandard.net/opinion/columns/virtual-reality-by-tony-lopez/361011/duterte-s-seven-biggest-achievements.html

Before all we hear were the barrage vs. Duterte mostly directed vs. the government response to Covid19, the Pharmaly, and the number of deaths in the drug war.  

As in all discrediting campaign vs a leader, the  protagonist is always pictured as the villain and devil.  The anger of the  other "commissioners"is so rabid that UN and ICC were involved.   How sad.

But Duterte accomplished the following:

1.  Via Tugade and Mark Villar -  long road network, bridges,  train lines, over passes, sky ways.;

2.  He did not bring the country to war on WPS.  Many can talk but its hard to do otherwise if you are dealing with XI who has the largest navy in the world and variety of missile firepower.   How can you dislodge these imperialists if they are all ready well installed by the previous regime

3.  Modernization of the military after beefing up salary.  Now we have more helicopters and transport plane,jet fighters, frigates and patrol boats.  No other administration has done that.  Now China would be more circumspect in bullying our countrymen.  So with our terrosists.   The Cobra attack helicopters has thermograph detectors and men in forest covers cant hide. 

4.  Beefing up of relief and rescue operations.    We have better response although it seemed many underestimated the power of Odette.  

5.  Aggressive betterment of civil servants.   Maybe buildings and facilities were improved.  and decorum of civil servants

6.  Free education

7.  Universal health care.

It is unfortunate that his administration has to face one of the toughtest test of any govt:   the covid19 pandemic.  And the calamities.   

Let us not totally believe what the other trolls print in their social media.   See through the squid ink and find the  truth

Really, is there no money in the Philippine Treasury?

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We were made nervous with the pronouncement of the President that Philippines has no more money left (after disbursing P200 billion) for the Baho law to counter the pandemic.

However, it may be due to non collection of BIR taxes and reduced business affecting BOC income.   However, the World Bank has praised the prudent  Fiscal policies of the country.   

All the while I thought that the Philippine govt spending has been runaway and imprudent (as I saw this morning expensive govt vehicles)

"No one was prepared for the Covid19"

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No one was prepared for the pandemic

That was the defense for the embattled health chief amidst calls for his resignation by Senators and other critics.   Andyan na iyan

But Taiwan handled this well - no harsh lockdown, the economy continued humming. It used  science and lesson learned from SARS.  Its VP is also an epidmiologist, the luxury our country did not have. It also acted swiftly to close its borders, do contact tracing manufacture face masks.

Compared this with our  belated response despite the death of a Chinese national in February and infected individuals in the Moslem prayer site at Greenhills.   Veeruz lang yan.  As they did in UK, and USA

Our country deserved someone better.   Yes its correct, despite being 1/3 the size of US, we only have 1,000 plus deaths vs 100,000+ in US and millions infected

Covid 19 origin - a conspiracy theory that it started in US

This post received a post at social media yesterday.  However, it seems that the post is deleted and could not forward the same to other friends through messenger, nor post at it at the same soc media platform where it started.  The picture of the covid19 labelled train bulk carrier is disturbing

This article may get me into trouble...???  This is just to save the post picture for posterity.  Surely, the US side would not like the world to see this theory and hypothesis

The post posit that the real source of the virus is from US because (as contained in the article)   of the following reasons:

1. There is a P5 laboratory in Maryland that delves in hazardous and deadly diseases:  Anthrax, SARS etc which although ordered closed due to non observance of waste water disposal still continue to operate

2.  The post alleges the Chinese spokesman version that the virus was brought to China who participated in the Wuhan War Games. There were 300 soldiers sent, no one won an event.  The soldiers went around Wuhan.

3. There is a long story that the reserarch started in University of North Carolina, and Chinese savants were involved;

4.  The findings that there are 4 to 5 versions/strain of the coronavirus around the world, and US has all the strains.

5.  There are speculations that US is the source since logiccally, if it has all the strains, then the conclusion is that  it is the source.

6.  The Wuhan theory can explain the Wuhan, Japan, Korea  (Italy becasuse of the Wuhan and Northern Italy business ties)  but not the US pandemic, nor high number of cases  in US - more than half a million, and that of Spain, France UK and Germany.   Why is there such a big number in US - due to the porous travel between US and China.

Raja Kianis Post on Covid 19 forwarded by Sergio Villaflores

US P5 Lab in Maryland

Pandemic Italian movie on Corona virus

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Rizal Philippines
March 31, 2020

Movies correctly predicting imitating life,  Pandemic movie from Italy. Now Italy with deaths from the disease.  How awful

Procedures Protocols, guide during a Pandemic at US vs Flu Pandemic as early as 2006.

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Strategy and Implementation Plan vs Influenza Pandemic 2006 PDF document US

As early as 2006, the Homeland Security under Pres Bush had a detailed ready pandemic plan in place.  This post wonders whether this was the same objective and breadth of  Pandemic Plan of late Sen. Myriam Santiago, HB 1573.

The said  document is detailed and goes on even to protect Animal, health, transportation and border security.  The plan is not just about health and disease protocol. It is a total plan.  Our experts and govt managers can go over this and just copy  and adjust this accordingly with our realities...

Off hand, the procedures for transportation are vague that is why police and checkpoints delays health workers, food supply are held because of overzealous LGU and checkpoint officers.  This should not have taken place had we had a procedure, a manual, a protocol for a pandemic.  When will we ever learn.

Why did US fail to contain coVid19?  Why does the Philippines not have a comprehensive Pandemic Strategy and Action plan.  Why are the infrastructures not in place.?  The leadership  may not have fully appreciated the seriousness of the problems and even joked about looking for this at "sasampalin"
Duterte says Philippines can defeat CoVid19

Do we have a protocol, a strategy, a masterplan for dealing with a pandemic.?

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Rizal Philippines
March 31, 2020

From the way it looks we have none.  The way we deal with the Covid 19, as all countries are, all is on ad hoc basis by the seat of the pants. And yet we witnessed the Outbreak, Pandemic movies. We saw the speech of Bill Gates prophesying that future wars will be fought with bio weapons, not nuclear weapons, and yet we did not pay attention to a future or present reality.  

What was the reaction of the President to the Virus  veeruz as he says, "duduraan" niya, a funny way of assessing a serious and deadly situation, but reflects our pride and hubris vs certain events that might happen

Do we have a health care plan for epidemics

None.  Why none?   We as a tropical country is subject to epidemics:  cholera, dengue. TB, and all other exotic diseases.  The Sub Saharan African countries were hit by Ebola (the disease that hit USA in "Outbreak"

The late Senator Myriam Defensor Santiago proposed HB 1573 "An Act Strengthening Naitonal Preparedness  and Response to Public Health Emergencies"  as early as 7  years ago,  still at committee level on the preparedness of the country vs pandemic.  Why does nobody pays attention to this.  (After reading the bill, I noticed that it lacked details on how the act shall be implemented.  Maybe somebody would work on this) )  RA 11332 enumerated more details on reporting of and containment of Public Health Emergencies.  But a lot more details would have to be inputted on the said law

Pandemic and All Hazards Preparedness act  This act even calls for reserve force similar to that of Citizen Army.  

One of the experts on said infectious diseases who worked for WHO is former Sec of Health Manuel Dayrit .And right now he is being interviewed frequently as a resource person on epidemic

Our disaster preparedness and NDRMCC action on Taal Volcano is admireable.

Much is still be desired on the way we handled CoVid 19

1.  Too late a response?  We could have done the lockdown in February?

2.  Too soon to little preparation?

    Many were caught by surprise and many loopholes gaps in the execution were the order of the day:

    1.  Communication to the ground commander

    2.  Conflicts in the order:

        1.  Essential services employees could not get to work -  even doctors and nurses

       2.  Free flow of food and essential commodities -  the checkpoint mentality still persisted
           in the minds of police force and military;  hence food supplies became scarce

      3.  Schedule in going to the market  What was to be prevented:  people getting close to one another
           was not lessened;  it increased;

     4.  Delays or absence of  i food distribution.   The lockdown procedure in other countries meant that people  could not go to the market and groceries and hence food and other provisions must be delivered to
         the residents.  This could lead to riots if people are in lockdown and people have nothing to eat.

3.  Lockdown or mass testing ?

    Other countries did not have to resort to the cruel and harsh lockdown but managed to flatten the curve
    like South Korea and Japan.   Some great minds in the department in charge of health seem to be averse
    mass testing.  Germany goes for mass testing


The President says we are in a war. And good generals are prepared for various war scenarios.   For instance General Schwarskoff has all details of a battle plan drawn to the last logistic plan including tissue paper and slippers on soldiers.  We could do better than that?

Conspiracy news/theory about the Corona virus

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Tierney Real News

REAL News about the Wuhan Virus

HERE'S THE TRUTH BEHIND THE WUHAN VIRUS:

Bill Gates & Barack Obama released a docuseries on Netflix called PANDEMIC in December right before the Wuhan virus was "discovered."

The docuseries pushed the need for the Gates Foundation to receive funding to carry on virus research to prevent the next PANDEMIC!

Bill Gates funded the Wuhan lab in China that released the Wuhan virus and is already selling test kits. Coincidence? Bill Gates was a member of China's Academy of Sciences who built the lab and he was awarded their highest honor.

The Wuhan virus was originally developed at the University of North Carolina by NIH grants approved by the Obama administration in 2012.

The NIH defunded the "dangerous" UNC research because of the proven human-to-human transmission, so the Communist Chinese scientists left UNC and took their work to the NEWLY BUILT Wuhan lab in 2017 - funded by Gates & pals.

The head of the Harvard Chemistry & Biology department, with ties to Gates & Epstein, was arrested for accepting bribes from the Communists. Did Epstein know what was coming?

The Pirbright Institute, funded by Bill Gates, owns the "patent" on Coronavirus genetic sequencing. They did simulation testing on a global PANDEMIC in 2019.

The first case of Wuhan virus was reported in China on November 17th. Communists didn't inform WHO or CDC until January 11th. Why?

How does the Wuhan virus spread and how does your body fight it?

Bill Gates & Barack Obama docuseries marketed the need for a global "universal" vaccine to replace all other flu vaccines. I believe it will be used to deliver a human chip via nanotechnology designed to be monitored and controlled by Huawei's 5G network.