THE surge in COVID-19 cases in the province could have been worse for the populace if less people in our communities had opted to be vaccinated. The fact that we have  more vaccinated persons today means the surge in cases today is more manageable, far better than when we only a handful were willing to be vaccinated.

What we are seeing today are vaccinated persons getting infected when they shouldn’t be, or so many thought. That’s where the surge started. It’s a strong indication merely that  most vaccinated persons did not understand what the vaccines were about, believing that vaccines provided 100% immunity, forgetting and ignoring the role that a person’s natural immune system plays in this pandemic.

The anti-Covid vaccine today only provides a layer of protection, not a full protection, not yet anyway.  Know that the vaccines administered today were only the results of first clinical experimental tests. It is a first aid vaccine that can only serve to boost people’s first line of defense, namely the natural immune system of human beings.

Worse, the required vaccine booster shots unfortunately gave the impression that the vaccine is all that’s needed. As studies and experiments have shown, boosting our natural immune system is still best way to make a person’s defense vs. the coronavirus work.

The minimum public health standards, wearing of masks particularly in public, is only a risk prevention tactic to minimize chances of the virus from entering the body, and to be in crowded enclosed public places is increasing risks of infection.

It’d be well for our local governments’ rural health units to intensify an information and educational campaign in our communities to focus on boosting our natural immune system, and how to do it.

Idiotic plan

IT’S just right.  And for scuttling the bid of the PDP-Laban Party—Cusi Wing—to reopen the process of filing certificates of candidacy (CoC) again, the Comelec (Commission on Elections) has not only upheld a constitutionally-protected mandate but the hallmark of sanity as well.  The decision by the seven-member commission was even so emphatic—unanimous—that it has thrown a strong message to those that dare to mess around with the nation’s poll body.  Was the Cusi Wing bent to delay the May 9 elections?  For, imagine the Comelec going through the rigors again of accepting, screening and disqualifying nuisance candidates once a repeat of the CoC process is undertaken. That’d be flirting with disaster.  Only the insane, if not the ill-laden mind, would seem capable of hatching up such an idiotic plan.

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