Putting mayors on the spot

 WHILE the provincial government has managed to keep the contagion checked at .1% ratio of the province’s population, compared to Cebu province’s 4.9% and Cavite’s .6% performance, Gov. Amado Espino III is right in keeping a hard, unrelenting stance towards town and city mayors to keep them in cadence with his unrelenting campaign vs. COVID-19.

Gov. Espino, he who carries the heaviest burden in keeping Pangasinenses safe, has no choice but to put the pressure on local executives because any sudden spike in number of cases will immediately catch national attention. It is bad enough that UP-Octa Research already warned of an 18% positivity rate in the province.

But to merely refute UP-Octa’s numbers, whether it’s 18% or 3% positivity rate, what matters to the situation on the ground is to quickly detect a suspected carrier because failed efforts in contact-tracing on time can already spell a major disaster in a town, like the case in Sison town when one carrier was undetected for a day inside the cement plant.

What, indeed, matters is what our mayors are doing 24/7, or fail to do over a 24-hour period.

There can be no time to relax our guard in all barangays in our 44 towns and 4 cities.  The unseen virus will attack anyone who lets his/her guard down, and consequently infect others around him or her at home and in the neighborhood.

And until the vaccine is rolled out in Pangasinan and enough are distributed and applied over a period, every day must be deemed crunch time.  The governor is right.

 

A nut case

 UP to the very end, Donald Trump showed his true color -Poor sport. First, he believed he would only lose through a rigged election.  Second, he believed he lost because the election was stolen—without presenting evidence, with 62 of his 63 election cases junked.  Third, he believed Congress could not declare Joe Biden the winner as his supporters would block Congress from doing it, resulting in five deaths after a pro-Trump mob attacked Capitol Hill on Jan. 6.  Fourth, he believed congratulating Biden was unnecessary.  And, finally, he snubbed Biden’s inauguration on Jan. 20, becoming the first outgoing US president to do so since Andrew Jackson 152 years ago in 1869.  And by stepping out of the White House unceremoniously, Trump completed dishonoring America’s cherished ideals of decorum and trampling on what’s left of his modicum of decency.

Only a nut case is capable of doing what he did.

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