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...
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 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...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Or, if you prefer, 224 kg. Hidilyn Diaz is worth her weight in gold. Although she weighs a mere 54.9 kg or 121 lb, she lifted 127 kg – more than twice her own weight -- to win the Philippines’ first Olympic gold medal in nearly a century. Cheers! Mabuhay! Does her...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza Typhoon. Wind and rain. Thunder and lightning. Floods everywhere, some swallowing rooftops. Earthquake. Pandemic. Forced evacuation and its attendant miseries. All in one day. At 2:20 a.m. the noise was so frightening it woke me up. In the dark, I heard Fabian Jr.’s...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza If I were to conduct a casual survey of family and friends, the results would likely be five in eight for Sinovac. Not that we had much choice, Sinovac being the first vaccine to arrive in massive crates and thanks to the propaganda being mouthed by Dr. Anthony Fauci that...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza How can the days fly by so swiftly when what lies ahead is more of the same -- routine, boredom . . .? Before anyone offers an enlightening Einstein-like answer, let’s fast-forward to September, when Christmas unofficially begins. But before we do the countdown,...
Medium Rare Jullie Y. Daza Scramble the letters in “pandemic” and what do you get? Pain, panic. Who’s panicking? COVID-19 variants are coming at us faster and packing a deadlier punch with each mutation. Fear of the unknown can be a pain, but like the good doctor says, no need to panic. Not...
