MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza “If you get vaccinated with a dose that’s 50 percent effective, it means you reduce the infection rate by 50 percent.” It does not mean that the vaccine is only half good. If the vaccine is 95 percent efficacious, “you’re 95 percent sure of protection.” Edson...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza She’s not a spring chicken anymore but her idea of exercise in the time of the pandemic is scuba-diving. That sport may or may not be at the extreme end of leisure activities for adults, but Lee is a super/superior senior whose constitution and state of health, honed...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Corruption in places high and low. The Department of Justice is conducting a “massive” investigation but how massive can it be, that the Presidential Anti-Corruption Commission beat DOJ in the game by naming names. Who’s investigating the investigators?...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza To five-year-old Marco I ask, “And when will you read me a story?” He’s in kindergarten but, because his mother took advantage of the long lockdown to drill him on sight-reading, he can easily read grade-four-level words. To my question his reply comes with a swak:...
MEDIUM RARE Super-PRRD has a solution to Taal’s tempestuous temper tantrums. He’ll show the volcano how tough he can be, by eating the ashes as they fall and pissing into the lake. A myth in the making! The eruptions – the volcano’s -- are no longer merely phreatic or even magmatic, because...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Yap Daza Mrs. Jae Kim, wife of US Ambassador Sung Kim, has fond memories of the Philippines to take home when her husband winds up his tour of duty. “Christmas is really special here,” she said over dinner days before 2020 kicked in. Hosted by Lin Bildner at Baguio Country...
MEDIUM RARE Some lucky people are planning an extended vacation in Baguio as the temperature is expected to drop further from the 11.4 C recorded last Saturday. The cool climate is for everyone, but sooner than later, the city will no longer be able to accommodate everyone unless they go up by foot...
MEDIUM RARE A year of widows, 2019, as I’ve noted. Now I should add that two female colleagues didn’t make it to the feast of the Three Kings yesterday. Sylvia Mayuga wrote “30” on the last day of 2019. Ninez Cacho Olivares’ last column in the Daily Tribune was dated Jan. 3, 2020, the...
MEDIUM RARE If you believe your wise old grannies and elderly aunts, the saying is that any year that ends in 9 is bound to be associated with events sad or bad. Last year, crowned by an annular solar eclipse, was not one to end on a note of collectively gladsome memories. On a mountain of natural...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Before NLEX, SCTEX, TPLEX and all those time-saving expressways, the trip to Baguio for us kids of the last century was four to five hours long. Today, with all the infrastructures and RFID, it’s still four to five hours, if you’re lucky. Time-saving expressways?...
MEDIUM RARE Jullie Y. Daza Gender equality demands that girls be acknowledged as bullies, too. Their bullying can be just as cruel, in the form of verbal-psychological abuse. I’ve seen girls bullying girls and heard stories of such incidents happening in “exclusive” schools where the rule is...
