Philippine government and authorities in general have kept the fear-mongering on another pandemic emergency going despite their hesitations in pushing the boosters throughout the population with the likes of the Philippine Department of Health (DOH), Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF), and OCTA Research.
“Increasing” Cases
With the increasing cases, people do indeed have short memories and the case of societal amnesia with how the government played this COVID lockdown situation especially this past year. Earlier this year, the Philippine government and authorities announced and implemented strict restrictions of lockdowns and the segregation and hunting of the unvaccinated during the first weeks of 2022 specifically in the National Capital Region (NCR) in order to “stop the spread”. And this resulted to regular citizens being interrogated for no good reason whatsoever with the likes of Aling Gemma. What also happened was that the media scapegoated a young woman in Gwyneth Chua who was blamed for spreading the virus by skipping quarantine.
All hail our great leaders
With all these insane policies that occurred, there was one thing that our authorities missed. It is the fact that nearly all of the Filipinos in NCR are almost all vaccinated with the COVID-19 shots and also the fact that vaccinated individuals are also as susceptible to COVID as the unvaccinated.
Fully vaccinated yet “still infected”
With the ridiculousness of all of this, the Filipino public after the terror of January 2022, the virus suddenly just disappeared during the 2022 Philippine Election Season with all Filipinos going out in crowded places to support their candidates and politicians.
The virus disappears and old & vulnerable people are invinsible when supporting their politicians
You might ask yourself, when will the Filipino public recognize the double standards and hypocrisy from our authorities and leaders as well and the abusing of emergency powers?
Well, the answer would be we would never really know as Filipinos and humanity as a whole are stuck in their regularly scheduled Mockingbird programming.