Is there life after COVID-19? By Ermin Garcia Jr. FOR humans whose emotional strength and bond arise from physical closeness, how does one explain, invoke and demand social distancing as a way of life? To stay away from everyone? Not only it is simply incomprehensible, it is unnatural. It…
Man of the masses speaks from the heart By Al S. Mendoza IN his recent TV appearance addressing the Filipino people about the COVID-19 outbreak, President Duterte was in his usual down-to-earth mode. Naturally, no speech. Only words plucked out from the heart. No frills. No bombast. No showboating….
Managing Epidemics: Contemporary Lessons from Asian Countries By Virginia Jasmin Pasalo LUZON, the biggest of the three island groups in the Philippines, has been placed under quarantine until 12 April 2020, coinciding with the end of Holy Week, to prevent the further spread of COVID-19. It is the first…
Disruptive COVID-19 By Jesus A. Garcia Jr. THERE are not much to talk about sports activities during these days. The panic and threat among us earthmen caused by the dreaded world virus called “COVID-19” put a stop to the sporting world because it can strike anybody with no exception. Who…
The Greedy Boy Unknown Author By Ashok G. Vasandani Here’s a story I read in www.inspirationalife.com that I’d like to share, something that we can all learn from. SAM and Tom were identical twins. They were so identical that even their mother found it difficult to distinguish one from…
How will they survive? By Leonardo Micua A MAN in his 40s, in shabby polo shirt and looked as if he has not shaven for months, knocked on our gate and begged for food or money. He motioned to me as if he knew me when I approached him. I recognized him as one of those who owns a tri-bike I used to ride whenever I left the house in the morning. He was accompanied by…
Water on rocks! By Jing Villamil AND when this monstrosity of a spiked ball had crowned itself and had pushed its bastard birth to a world caught unaware, unbelieving, unprepared . . . she closed her eyes. And promptly disappeared. Though, she did not just upped and puffed away….
PANGASINAN UNDER LOCKDOWN THE province of Pangasinan registered its first case of COVID-19 when a man from Bayambang confined in a still undisclosed hospital turned out to be positive of the virus according to the Provincial Health Office. This is in addition to the 29 Patients Under Investigation (PUIs), one of…
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