MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Ask. So you call One Hospital Command. The phone is either tied up or it just keeps ringing. OHC boasts a complement of 120 operators working ‘round the clock. Nobody home? Or simply no answers? With hospitals filling up, full, shut down, or overflowing to sidewalks and...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza And it’s not just doctors, nurses, lab technicians, hygiene and sanitation engineers, but also policemen/women out on the streets chasing after toughies aching to catch or spread the vilest of viruses. A picture published in Manila Standard a few days ago says it all:...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza That’s the advice of Dr. Francisco Duque to parents and family members who are worried sick about the growing number of young COVID-19 patients, from babies to teens and up. As explained by the Secretary, if there are five people in one household and four of them have...
Lemon lime pie We’re all back in ECQ. No place to go and nowhere to dine in. It makes me wonder how establishments will survive this. We hear of various struggles in businesses, decisions having to be made in Metro Manila and the provinces whether to take a chance and stay open or just cut losses...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza As I promised myself, no mention of the C word, not today. After watching the nth replay of My Fair Lady, the air feels bright, the space is light, the mood is right as rain and the pretty things it grows – flowers, grass, crops, the umbrella factory. My Fair Lady the...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza As the tunnel grows longer and darker, the desperately longed-for herd immunity seems to be going farther away. At the same time, the herd mentality that is highly vulnerable to trolls bent on virally spreading fake news and easily believable but incredibly wrong...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza What a way to “welcome” ECQ! Where was everybody going? When a solo driver finally reached home, he proclaimed, “It’s Christmas Eve! Everyone’s out on the street!” Right on cue, he heard TV reporters echoing his feelings, calling the non-event “ bisperas ng...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Is it vaccine hesitancy or aversion? At the rate seniors are avoiding vaccination – so far the only known protection against the killer virus -- you have to wonder where their doubts are coming from. Fear of the needle? Before they got old, they were young, and when...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza There must be more than 5 million Manuels but there’s only one Manoling. Manoling Morato, 87, who held his moral compass close to his chest for use in his personal, social, and spiritual life. There was no gray with Manoling, only black and white, good vs bad, the...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza While there are those who were dissatisfied with the President’s State of the (Vacci)Nation speech – three hours for what should have been a 60-minute address that he himself kept interrupting, to the consternation of the teleprompter’s page-turner – I found it...
It was the first time for me to take a real vacation after this whole pandemic shook our world. I chose a place that was reachable by car with the least hassle but with a lot of new food finds. It wasn’t difficult to choose Baguio. Weather is cool (between 16 and 23 degrees). Having to wear a...
Jullie Y. Daza Every other person I know has been victimized by either hacking or theft identity on the Internet. Recently, I got the scare of my life when friends started calling me to report that someone using my name had been sending them creepy messages through Messenger. The poseur attempts to...
