Wilfredo G. Villanueva
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Juana Pilipinas
Karl Garcia
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Irineo B. R. Salazar
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Virus trends in the Philippines
By Joe America I’ve been following the Department of Health’s (DOH’s) daily reports on the virus out of China. Here’s the link. UPDATES ON NOVEL CORONAVIRUS DISEASE (COVID-19) I can’t really ‘see’ the trend lines from the daily or interactive reports so I’ve crunched the data to give a trend line of admitted patients, discharges, … Continue reading
Standing alone after VFA; what it takes
By Joe America President Duterte has cancelled the Visiting Forces Agreement (VFA) with the United States, to the surprise of the US and many other people. How can a nation facing off against China toss aside the most powerful military backstop in the world? Well, it’s easy if you aren’t really facing off against China. … Continue reading
The coronavirus; facts and future.
By Joe America Let me drop off two resource links. One provides the results of a study of 138 coronavirus victims from Wuhan. It is perhaps the best picture of the knowns and unknowns of the virus we have. Clinical Characteristics of 138 Hospitalized Patients With 2019 Novel Coronavirus–Infected Pneumonia in Wuhan, China The second … Continue reading
Why ‘panic’ is good policy to fight the coronavirus
By Joe America The coronavirus is a nasty little bug. I think all the calls for “calm” circulating in social media are wrong. ‘Panic’ is a better policy. But I’ll twist the definition a little: Panic, noun, a highly emotionalized energy state in which the mind calculates all the ways one can get a nasty … Continue reading
Jose Rizal meets the Governor General; we learn Ibarra is a Yellow
By Joe America Jose Rizal covered many of the topics we discus today because the Philippines hasn’t changed much in 125 years. I am reading Noli Me Tangere as translated by Leon Ma. Guerrero who, according to Manuel L. Quezon III, does the best job of highlighting the satirical qualities of Rizal’s writing while other … Continue reading
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