MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza When the two leading lights of the IATF exchange notes because something is worrying them, we should be worried. Secretary Carlito Galvez, chief implementer, to Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra: An increase in suicides has been observed during the lockdown. Secretary...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Add two words to those two above and what do you get? A movie title that practically everyone in this country can sing. From Russia with Love was the second James Bond movie, produced in 1963, and though a parade of Bonds blonde and mostly not blonde have come and gone...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Who is the DepEdiot who made the “suggestion” that kids on distance learning sit in front of their computers for eight hours? Does this guy consider himself an educator (???) and what is his IQ? Like suckers who are born every minute, certain subnormal species thrive...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza “What is it about August?” asked US President George Bush when he launched Operation Desert Shield, one of a series of “shock and awe” maneuvers in the Middle East (this was before the demise of Saddam Hussein and Khadafi). In our family, the only August-born has...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza On Aug. 14, eve of the Feast of the Assumption to heaven of the Most Blessed Mother of God, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) issued a pastoral message addressed to teachers, educators, students, seminarists, and the Catholic faithful, to...
MEDIUM RARE I promised myself not to mention COVID-19 – there I go! – days before the latest lockdown is supposed to end. End? Some say the MECQ is not long enough. Privately, what I think is lacking is a woman’s touch in the all-male, heavily militarized IATF. Yes, sir, we need a woman –...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza After every Tom, Dick, and Harry reviewed the President’s State of the Nation Address, now I can share my biggest disappointment. I was waiting for him to show us how many barangay officials he had caught with their fingers in the cookie jar, which would then have...
MEDIUM RARE Farewell, Mayor Fred Lim, policeman, police chief, NBI director, senator of the Republic, always a friend to police reporters, their photographers and editors. He lived a checkered career that mythically began in a soap opera-worthy setting, Hospicio de San Jose home for orphaned...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza For the moment, for sure the best action plan the government need not have a hand in crafting – with no cost whatsoever as the advice is free, minus consultation fee – is Dr. Tony Leachon’s instruction to one and all: Behave as if we’re under ECQ. No threats of...
Medium Rare ECQ to MECQ to GCQ... and now, back to MECQ. What a language! It may sound like Greek but it’s beyond translation into the national language. Not that MECQ 2 means anything to me, as there’s no real difference between one category and the next, not if you’re old and, as they keep...
MEDIUM RARE There’s an army of the forgotten out there helping us with their services to keep life as normal as thinkable in these extraordinary times. As we acknowledge the sacrifices of our medical and police frontliners, so let’s take a moment to thank the people hidden behind the myriad...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Dr. Tony Leachon, IATF ex-consultant, hit the nail on its head when he articulated the state of the Filipino nation in two words: “Quarantine fatigue.” He added, “Information fatigue.” (If I may contribute another two, suspended animation.) Exactly 139 days after...
