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Really sad indeed. Two of my colleagues in Cebu have just been let go. And I fear this is just the beginning...Taco wrote: ↑June 26th, 2020, 2:56 amEveryone in Cebu City will be unemployed again, 60% of the hotels will go bankrupt because the tourists are gone.
Cebu City Lockdown #2
https://www.rappler.com/nation/264795-a ... -cebu-city
Winston wrote: ↑July 1st, 2020, 4:59 amDuterte presidency unravels as coronavirus ravages Philippines
Analysts say the pandemic has exposed the president's 'militarist' approach and lack of a serious policy agenda.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/ ... 02601.html
You not think wholefuly because our bossman wiseton genetic and roots of the island culture prove what superior bossman can do different and his country lady leader make taiwan great again so we know answer lies in the deepest wiseness derived from the ancestries of wiseton so you see duende where there is will there is a way just follow taiwan follow wiseton follow the bondafide aboarders so you will seehypermak wrote: ↑July 1st, 2020, 5:29 amWinston wrote: ↑July 1st, 2020, 4:59 amDuterte presidency unravels as coronavirus ravages Philippines
Analysts say the pandemic has exposed the president's 'militarist' approach and lack of a serious policy agenda.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/ ... 02601.html
I am not a Duterte fan but, guys let's be honest, which country and political leader has really handled the Covid situation well? I often talk to my colleagues, foreign and local, about this and we represent at least 15 countries besides the Philippine, from India to Australia, Singapore to Japan, Ukraine to Spain.
Not a single one of us had good words for the President/Prime Minister or political class of their own home country. Even the 2 Vietnamese middle managers we have didn't have words of praise for the so called "miracle" of Vietnam who managed to stop the pandemic after a mere few weeks, with 0 dead. They called Vietnam "little China" and said the local government did everything in its power to play down the real figures and show the world what a clean little Communist utopia they are.
I have nothing against Vietnam and wouldn't have said anything that extreme. Their words, not mine.
Not to put my tin foil hat on but at this point it's quite evident that the whole pandemic was designed, and I mean lab-designed, to plunge the world economy into the global recession since perhaps 1929. No President could be any wiser, or better, because noone was supposed to.
Hmm strange idea at end like all only about stock markets but no plan to long term control people behaviors movement freedom like so many other people speculationshypermak wrote: ↑September 6th, 2020, 4:49 amThe current reality, not just here in the Philippines but all around the world, is that nobody is dying from Covid-19 anymore. That's why the mainstream press has turned the panic dial up a few notches and now is spreading fear solely based on the number of positive cases.
The average age in Europe for a "Covid positive" is now late 20 to early 30s. OK, but how many of them are in a hospital ward, let alone in an ICU? Very few, in fact less than the average numbers of common flu patients (with or without pulmonary complications), in the same age range.
It didn't help that China flooded the world with tens of millions of rapid test kits of extremely dubious quality. The first type your friend Alex mentions really has a number of false positives up to 40%. I also heard that entire batches of test kits were defective but were used anyway, since most government are mandating massive screening policies.
I admit it, I was quite worried about my family back in my region, one of the worst hit by the first wave. Now that the dust is settled and the virus has lost most of its potency, we can see that most governments still prefer to "listen" to those scientists and healthcare operators who are in line with the agenda at hand.
The agenda at hand being giving the global economy the kind of "soft crash-landing" needed to keep interest rates down. Super-low interest rates are what market speculators need to pay back the huge sums they loan to invest on the riskier stock market. At the same point, they still want these speculators to continue to make tonloads of money from said investments.
Which is why we see the usual handful of stocks racing up and touching all-time high after all-time high, while the real economy is in one of the deepest recessions since 1929.
In the Philippines and elsewhere, the current economy-killing lockdown has very little to do with Covid. As soon as the speculators have finished to unload their market holdings and pocket the billions, they will magically declare the world "Covid free" of "Covid safe" and let the small fry buy the same stocks they had, a couple of months before they will go down crashing again.
That's an interesting theory hypermak. But how do you know the agenda and plan? If something is a conspiracy, it's usually secret right? So how would you know about it? Do you have insider channels? Or do you just follow the money trail?hypermak wrote: ↑September 6th, 2020, 4:49 amThe current reality, not just here in the Philippines but all around the world, is that nobody is dying from Covid-19 anymore. That's why the mainstream press has turned the panic dial up a few notches and now is spreading fear solely based on the number of positive cases.
The average age in Europe for a "Covid positive" is now late 20 to early 30s. OK, but how many of them are in a hospital ward, let alone in an ICU? Very few, in fact less than the average numbers of common flu patients (with or without pulmonary complications), in the same age range.
It didn't help that China flooded the world with tens of millions of rapid test kits of extremely dubious quality. The first type your friend Alex mentions really has a number of false positives up to 40%. I also heard that entire batches of test kits were defective but were used anyway, since most government are mandating massive screening policies.
I admit it, I was quite worried about my family back in my region, one of the worst hit by the first wave. Now that the dust is settled and the virus has lost most of its potency, we can see that most governments still prefer to "listen" to those scientists and healthcare operators who are in line with the agenda at hand.
The agenda at hand being giving the global economy the kind of "soft crash-landing" needed to keep interest rates down. Super-low interest rates are what market speculators need to pay back the huge sums they loan to invest on the riskier stock market. At the same point, they still want these speculators to continue to make tonloads of money from said investments.
Which is why we see the usual handful of stocks racing up and touching all-time high after all-time high, while the real economy is in one of the deepest recessions since 1929.
In the Philippines and elsewhere, the current economy-killing lockdown has very little to do with Covid. As soon as the speculators have finished to unload their market holdings and pocket the billions, they will magically declare the world "Covid free" of "Covid safe" and let the small fry buy the same stocks they had, a couple of months before they will go down crashing again.
Thanks for mentioning that, @Winston. I am not a "Dutertard" but I must say I like the no-BS approach of President Duterte most of the times. The Philippines government approved their budget for next year and, judging from the allocation, public investment continues to focus on infrastructure building and even beautification projects (like the controversial "white sand on Manila Bay").Winston wrote: ↑July 9th, 2020, 3:22 amDuterte: PH can’t afford to totally open up economy amid pandemic
https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/07/08/ ... ic/739416/
No more Covid-19, no vaccine needed, says epidemiologist
https://www.manilatimes.net/2020/06/16/ ... st/732018/
@Winston, you should really convince "Alex from Venice" to start posting here. He would be an excellent member.Winston wrote: ↑September 6th, 2020, 3:50 pmAlex agrees with hypermak:
[9/6, 8:50 PM] Alex From Venice: totally agree
[9/6, 9:00 PM] Alex From Venice: I didn't mention that the rapid test has a high likelihood to give false positive results but that's a fact well known.
Yes, Philippines test kits is said have been provided by China, no one knows the quality of such test kits therefore their rate of false positive could be extremely high.
PCR tests are more expensive and takes much longer time to be processed so they are used to confirm the rapid test result, but people my have to wait weeks while confined in a "for positive people prison" before they get the PCR result.
In the meanwhile they are reported as "new positive case" in the daily and all times count.
Anyway, as said, even if someone is really positive, that doesn't mean it's sick or even just only contagious.
The odds are much more that a healthy person found positive is just someone who got infected weeks or even months earlier than the date of testing.
[9/6, 9:08 PM] Alex From Venice: in the end is all a giant global scam and I also think that all this will come to an end when the "elites" and speculators will have achieved to get what they wanted (more power, more wealth).
Of course it won't finished if the super giant (useless) vaccine won't first be sold and injected to everyone (at least on those countries where mandatory vaccination will be imposed, which you'll find for sure the super corrupted Italy and the as well super corrupted Philippines)
