Duterte's Platform Of Government

[glenn_duke]

COA can't say talaga na overpriced yan, courts lang kapag nakasuhan. Ang tanong eh tapos na ba imbestigasyon at dumaan ba sa trial yan? hehe

COA can say if the purchase price is overpriced or not, its a part of an audit.

Of course itutuloy nila yan until ma over shadow na sila ng filing ng COCs and then, they will just let it slide sa kangkungan.

Walang trial yan, walang kaso.

[Devastator]

Says the kit, it's the kit, Brrt, brrt.

Duterte calls Gordon 'despot,' ‘pathological story-teller’: 'Para kang lasing' | Inquirer News

[Yatta]

[Flipo]

?Yan lang talaga ang kaya ko? | Philstar.com

‘Yan lang talaga ang kaya ko’
DEMAND AND SUPPLY - Boo Chanco - The Philippine Star
September 15, 2021 | 12:00am

Sorry na lang daw, the President said. Yan lang talaga ang kaya niya in controlling the pandemic.

OCTA made a prediction the other week that the number of new COVID cases will rise to about 30,000 a day by the end of September. The first week just ended and we hit over 26,000.

Our positivity rate is now at 30 percent when the threshold set by the WHO is just five percent. That means one out of every three persons tested for COVID is positive. It means the Duterte administration is failing badly in controlling the spread of the virus.

It is not just the numbers that are alarming to most of us. The pandemic has become personal.

The sick and dying are known to us, close friends or even family members. They have names. They are not just statistics. We have relationships with them.

Can’t we do better? Duterte and his officials keep on telling us there is no playbook because it is a new virus.

Former Health secretary Esperanza Cabral isn’t buying it. She told ANC’s Christian Esguerra in an interview that the excuse is no longer valid and that we deserve better.

“Bumenta na yan… That kind of argument was acceptable maybe in the first six months of this particular pandemic. But we have had 18 months of experience and, at this point, we should have written our own playbook already,” Dr. Cabral said.

President Duterte, in one of his recent midnight telecasts, said this is as far as he can go.

“Kung sabihin ninyo ako ang nagkukulang, sorry. Ginawa ko ang lahat. Kung ang lahat ay kulang pa, patawad po, ‘yan lang talaga ang kaya ko,” Duterte admitted.

Indeed, the buck stops with Duterte. The responsibility for the current mess is rightly his because he is the final approving authority for everything the IATF has imposed or failed to do since last year.

We have the dubious distinction of having the longest lockdown in the world, yet we are still among the countries with the worst ability to control the spread of the virus.

It had always been pointed out that lockdowns alone don’t work without massive testing, tracing, isolation, and treatment.

Duterte’s officials dropped the ball for the early delivery of reliable vaccines when the Health Secretary allowed the draft contract with Pfizer to sleep at his desk for a few months.

The failure of Duterte’s pandemic response team is obvious. Just look at the long lines of patients dying in hospital driveways while waiting to be treated. Shortages of oxygen, medicines, and other facilities have also affected the ability of patients to get treated properly.

Healthcare workers are overworked, prompting many to resign. The ability of hospitals to accept patients is not limited to available beds, but by the limited number of staff. Many health workers are also getting sick, yet the risk allowance they are entitled to by law is not getting to them.

Wrong decisions are continually being made. Yet when doctors offer advice based on their experiences treating patients, they are not just ignored, but viciously castigated.

The Duterte administration’s pandemic response is a big management failure and line responsibility for it rests on the Health Secretary. He has failed on the medical side and on the administrative side. Overpriced face masks, unpaid risk allowances for healthcare workers, and unreliable statistics are too serious to ignore.

But Duterte continues to back him up. An obvious change in leadership at the health department could help make things better.

Harry Roque lambasting the president of the Philippine College of Physicians is par for the course. In August last year, Duterte himself accused the doctors of subversion when they called for a timeout because the hospitals were getting overwhelmed.

Tracing cases is one important part of the pandemic response they have done badly. It is so bad, Baguio Mayor Benjie Magalong, the tracing czar, said it was a failure. It can trace only up to five contacts, which doesn’t even go beyond the family.

Dr. Cabral said in an ANC interview that the manual tracing they are doing is useless, but bureaucrats like it because they get to employ thousands of people as contact tracers and pay hundreds of millions of pesos whether the work gets properly done or not.

Other countries have digitized tracing, and in this tech age that seems the logical way to go. But IATF had insisted all these months on StaySafe, a tracing app that has failed miserably.

Retired General Eliseo Rio, Jr., while he was still acting secretary of DICT, proposed an appropriate tracing strategy, but was not only ignored… his four month old resignation letter was accepted.

General Rio explained the digital contact tracing that will work under our circumstances uses location of mobile phones to determine the spread of COVID-19. The location of the cell phone of a positively tested carrier is tracked relative to the locations of the cell phones of other people he/she may have come in close proximity to.

A message could then be sent to all probable contacts to have themselves tested, and if found to be positive, their cell phones would have the records of phones that they may have been in contact with, and so on and so forth.

Rio pointed out that StaySafe will not work because it needs internet connectivity of mobile phones that are at least 3G capable. Here, around 20 million to 30 million subscribers still use 2G phones. About 20 percent of NCR has no or poor mobile internet connectivity, the percentage in other areas is even much higher.

Rio’s proposal requires the cooperation of telcos to make available location data of their subscribers through their call data records (CDRs). And in this pursuit for the greater good, the privacy of our citizens must be protected.

That’s just one example of failure. If Duterte is really sorry he is not up to the job, he should know what to do to save Filipino lives. But his bloated ego and political interests prevent him from doing what is right… let someone competent take control to save lives.

[Ry_Tower]

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Ewan kung legit pero mukhang totoo. Hehe

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[Ry_Tower]

COA can say if the purchase price is overpriced or not, its a part of an audit.

Of course itutuloy nila yan until ma over shadow na sila ng filing ng COCs and then, they will just let it slide sa kangkungan.

Walang trial yan, walang kaso.

What I mean they can't say is hindi naman important yung sasabihin nila kasi unless nga may trial, useless.

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[Flipo]

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Ewan kung legit pero mukhang totoo. Hehe

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[Yatta]

Nagsalita ang great communicator.

[glenn_duke]

?Yan lang talaga ang kaya ko? | Philstar.com

‘Yan lang talaga ang kaya ko’
DEMAND AND SUPPLY - Boo Chanco - The Philippine Star
September 15, 2021 | 12:00am

Sorry na lang daw, the President said. Yan lang talaga ang kaya niya in controlling the pandemic.

OCTA made a prediction the other week that the number of new COVID cases will rise to about 30,000 a day by the end of September. The first week just ended and we hit over 26,000.

Our positivity rate is now at 30 percent when the threshold set by the WHO is just five percent. That means one out of every three persons tested for COVID is positive. It means the Duterte administration is failing badly in controlling the spread of the virus.

It is not just the numbers that are alarming to most of us. The pandemic has become personal.

The sick and dying are known to us, close friends or even family members. They have names. They are not just statistics. We have relationships with them.

Can’t we do better? Duterte and his officials keep on telling us there is no playbook because it is a new virus.

Former Health secretary Esperanza Cabral isn’t buying it. She told ANC’s Christian Esguerra in an interview that the excuse is no longer valid and that we deserve better.

“Bumenta na yan… That kind of argument was acceptable maybe in the first six months of this particular pandemic. But we have had 18 months of experience and, at this point, we should have written our own playbook already,” Dr. Cabral said.

President Duterte, in one of his recent midnight telecasts, said this is as far as he can go.

“Kung sabihin ninyo ako ang nagkukulang, sorry. Ginawa ko ang lahat. Kung ang lahat ay kulang pa, patawad po, ‘yan lang talaga ang kaya ko,” Duterte admitted.

Indeed, the buck stops with Duterte. The responsibility for the current mess is rightly his because he is the final approving authority for everything the IATF has imposed or failed to do since last year.

We have the dubious distinction of having the longest lockdown in the world, yet we are still among the countries with the worst ability to control the spread of the virus.

It had always been pointed out that lockdowns alone don’t work without massive testing, tracing, isolation, and treatment.

Duterte’s officials dropped the ball for the early delivery of reliable vaccines when the Health Secretary allowed the draft contract with Pfizer to sleep at his desk for a few months.

The failure of Duterte’s pandemic response team is obvious. Just look at the long lines of patients dying in hospital driveways while waiting to be treated. Shortages of oxygen, medicines, and other facilities have also affected the ability of patients to get treated properly.

Healthcare workers are overworked, prompting many to resign. The ability of hospitals to accept patients is not limited to available beds, but by the limited number of staff. Many health workers are also getting sick, yet the risk allowance they are entitled to by law is not getting to them.

Wrong decisions are continually being made. Yet when doctors offer advice based on their experiences treating patients, they are not just ignored, but viciously castigated.

The Duterte administration’s pandemic response is a big management failure and line responsibility for it rests on the Health Secretary. He has failed on the medical side and on the administrative side. Overpriced face masks, unpaid risk allowances for healthcare workers, and unreliable statistics are too serious to ignore.

But Duterte continues to back him up. An obvious change in leadership at the health department could help make things better.

Harry Roque lambasting the president of the Philippine College of Physicians is par for the course. In August last year, Duterte himself accused the doctors of subversion when they called for a timeout because the hospitals were getting overwhelmed.

Tracing cases is one important part of the pandemic response they have done badly. It is so bad, Baguio Mayor Benjie Magalong, the tracing czar, said it was a failure. It can trace only up to five contacts, which doesn’t even go beyond the family.

Dr. Cabral said in an ANC interview that the manual tracing they are doing is useless, but bureaucrats like it because they get to employ thousands of people as contact tracers and pay hundreds of millions of pesos whether the work gets properly done or not.

Other countries have digitized tracing, and in this tech age that seems the logical way to go. But IATF had insisted all these months on StaySafe, a tracing app that has failed miserably.

Retired General Eliseo Rio, Jr., while he was still acting secretary of DICT, proposed an appropriate tracing strategy, but was not only ignored… his four month old resignation letter was accepted.

General Rio explained the digital contact tracing that will work under our circumstances uses location of mobile phones to determine the spread of COVID-19. The location of the cell phone of a positively tested carrier is tracked relative to the locations of the cell phones of other people he/she may have come in close proximity to.

A message could then be sent to all probable contacts to have themselves tested, and if found to be positive, their cell phones would have the records of phones that they may have been in contact with, and so on and so forth.

Rio pointed out that StaySafe will not work because it needs internet connectivity of mobile phones that are at least 3G capable. Here, around 20 million to 30 million subscribers still use 2G phones. About 20 percent of NCR has no or poor mobile internet connectivity, the percentage in other areas is even much higher.

Rio’s proposal requires the cooperation of telcos to make available location data of their subscribers through their call data records (CDRs). And in this pursuit for the greater good, the privacy of our citizens must be protected.

That’s just one example of failure. If Duterte is really sorry he is not up to the job, he should know what to do to save Filipino lives. But his bloated ego and political interests prevent him from doing what is right… let someone competent take control to save lives.

Pumalpak nga ang mga engot na ito sa one day disaster, na may 2 weeks notice. Tapos ngayon magaling sila pagdating sa covid Yung argument nila ang bumenta na, kaya nasa kangkungan sila.

[Flipo]

Pumalpak nga ang mga engot na ito sa one day disaster, na may 2 weeks notice. Tapos ngayon magaling sila pagdating sa covid Yung argument nila ang bumenta na, kaya nasa kangkungan sila.

Eto pa!

The evil in a man?s heart | Philstar.com

The evil in a man’s heart
DEMAND AND SUPPLY - Boo Chanco - The Philippine Star
September 17, 2021 | 12:00am

Luke 6:45 says: “For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.” In other words, if you want to know what a person really is, you simply listen to how he speaks.

The same Biblical passage explains that a good man brings good things out of the good stored in his heart. An evil man brings evil things out of the evil stored in his heart.

Our Lord Jesus Christ is teaching us how we can discern a person’s character. If a person is always angry, rude, lewd or immoral, you can be sure he harbors a lot of evil in his heart.

Of course, a politician can always put on a facade of goodness, but in the end the real character gets revealed. The cursing and the vile language are giveaways of his true character. The mouth speaks out of the abundance or overflow of the heart.

An explanation of the biblical passage I found on Google provides a practical application for all Filipinos as we prepare to vote next year.

“When we see evil consistently coming out of a person in word and in deed, we should not deceive ourselves by saying ‘he really is a good person inside; that’s just the way he talks.’”

Jesus is warning us that a man who consistently embraces sinful words and deeds is sure to have a wicked heart. Rather than give that person the benefit of the doubt, we ought to recognize the “fruit” and respond accordingly. We could be talking of a future spouse or a candidate for public office.

Not that we are without sin. But we should be realistic about whom to trust and whom to allow to exert influence or power over us and the people we love.

Jesus is telling us to pray for and exercise the power of discernment and not be led blindly by seemingly loving and charismatic people who are really evil at heart. In our current national situation, we need to wake up people to recognize evil and to reject it.

Put another way, Dr. Nuelle Duterte, a medical doctor and a psychiatrist trained in New York and practicing in New Zealand, had this to say about our situation in a Facebook meme:

“Is anyone familiar with conditioning?

“Definition: Also called operant conditioning, instrumental conditioning. It is a process of changing behavior by rewarding or punishing a subject each time an action is performed until the subject associates the action with pleasure or distress.

“The Philippines is being conditioned to accept that corruption is normal, extrajudicial killing is justified, and criticism is akin to rebellion.

“There’s something terribly wrong when people are so easily conditioned that some even choose it over freedom of thought.”

Dr. Duterte knows what she speaks of not just because of her profession. She is a niece of the President and she grew up in Davao in the same community as the President’s. In a recent interview with Christian Esguerra of ANC, she expressed regret that she did not speak up sooner to warn the Filipino people about her uncle.

She said she didn’t initially believe her uncle would run for president. She thought “pang Davao lang sya”. She didn’t believe he had what it takes to be president. She was initially amused at the public adulation of her uncle until she realized the danger he posed on the country.

Dr. Duterte is probably the least surprised that her uncle is constantly cursing and bullying when he addresses the nation. Her uncle’s incoherent manner of speaking in a stream of consciousness manner must have bothered the psychiatrist in her.

Dr. Duterte said in so many words that the country deserves better. Unfortunately, enough of our countrymen are still mesmerized by her uncle.

Recent developments are proving the fears of Dr. Duterte to be correct. The reactions of the former mayor to corruption charges being investigated by the Senate is out of whack for a president who promised to fight corruption.

Attacking the Red Cross because of Dick Gordon makes no sense. The Red Cross is a useful ally during this COVID crisis as it fills up the shortcomings of the DOH and IATF.

Overflowing hospitals? There are Red Cross tents nearby to accommodate desperate patients. Vaccination? There are Red Cross buses going around the countryside vaccinating people. COVID testing? Red Cross is doing about half of all tests nationwide, and many more.

The President has also been very defensive about the cast of characters suspected to have connived to gain undue profits from government purchases during this pandemic. He even ordered his Cabinet members to first seek his clearance before appearing in the Senate investigation.

The people who voted for Duterte in 2016 probably thought they were voting for change. The only change we got is the loss of civility in public discourse. The corruption remained, even worsened.

We now see desperation among our people because our Great Leader is bent on creating divisions instead of inspiring and unifying us to beat the common enemy: COVID.

This Facebook post of a netizen sums things up:

“Lord, help our country. We can only turn to You to save us from the pandemic and the evil that is controlling and running our nation. Helplessness. Sickness. Weariness. Frustration. Hunger. Death ang dinadaanan ng taong bayan.

“And people in our government still can’t get their acts together on what to do? Walang game plan. Walang strategy... and the NG is in denial that corruption is deeply rooted...

“If he doesn’t know what to do to get us out of this rut, make him give way to people who know what to do…”

Well, learn from the Bible. Recognize the evil upon us. We have heard him curse God, called God stupid for dying on the cross in Calvary. If he can’t respect God, why expect him to respect us mere mortals?

We must work hard to get relief next May. Why choose to continue suffering from the tyranny of incompetence and corruption? We deserve better.

[baludoy]

^ how times have changed.

boo chanco was a dyed in the wool duterte boi in 2016 and well, look at him now. the gradual 180 degree shift in chanco really surprised me. kung hindi lang maganda anak nito eh....dangnation!

[Devastator]

Nuelle Duterte is our version of Mary Trump.

[Yatta]

^ how times have changed.

boo chanco was a dyed in the wool duterte boi in 2016 and well, look at him now. the gradual 180 degree shift in chanco really surprised me. kung hindi lang maganda anak nito eh....dangnation!

At least natauhan. Yung iba 2021 na, di pa rin ma-gets na binobola lang sila.

[baludoy]

a less than flattering piece on roque

Roque, a former human rights lawyer, has defended his statements by saying he had ceased the right to air his personal views after becoming Duterte’s spokesman.
In 2011, he had been an enthusiastic advocate of the International Criminal Court, a tribunal in The Hague at which he remains the only Filipino lawyer allowed to appear. As Duterte’s spokesman, Roque supported the country’s pulling out of the court.

Philippine official Harry Roque, who mocked the UN, now hopes they’ll give him a job | South China Morning Post

[Devastator]

Putting up "one big fight" si Gordon.

Gordon slams Duterte for defending Lao and Yang, calls him a 'cheap politician' | GMA News Online

[Papajamba]

Wow, Lamborghini Urus, Porsche 911 turbo, Cayenne VR6, Porsche Carrera 4s and Lexus RCF!!!
Sarap ng Pharmally!
Ano kaya binili ni Yang at mga silent partner politicos?

Gordon: Pharmally execs acquired luxury cars after bagging COVID-19 supply procurement contracts | GMA News Online


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[dr. d]

Wow, Lamborghini Urus, Porsche 911 turbo, Cayenne VR6, Porsche Carrera 4s and Lexus RCF!!!
Sarap ng Pharmally!
Ano kaya binili ni Yang at mga silent partner politicos?

Gordon: Pharmally execs acquired luxury cars after bagging COVID-19 supply procurement contracts | GMA News Online


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sabay-sabay ba bumili?

personally,
that is beyond the point.
the basic question to me is, were rules broken in the deal?

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