Not the beginning of an end

IT’’D be delusional on the part of our people and our local governments to believe that finally the dawning of the new year, 2021 signals the end of the COVID-19 malady, for nothing can be further from the reality confronting us today.

What continues to stare back at us in Pangasinan is the harsh reality that our situation is not about to improve in the weeks ahead, not after a week of flagrant violation of the  health and physical protocols in many parts of the province.

While 2021 offers a ray of hope for better things to come, our situation in Pangasinan can be viewed in a better perspective by believing that, yes, we are better prepared to meet the health and economic challenges looming before us.

Unlike in March 2020 when we did not know nor understand what was happening when Extreme Community Quarantine was declared in Pangasinan with the rest of Central and Northern Luzon, today we are better prepared or (ought to be more prepared) for a possible second wave of attack from the confirmed second variant of COVID-19.

Hopefully, both our national and local governments will be more calculating and more decisive in confronting the next bouts of contagion, i.e. declaring zonal lockdowns instead of total lockdowns, a more efficient plan for testing, etc.

After 290 days of panic, worries and anxiety, our local officialdoms and communities should have learned vital lessons to keep our people safe and our economy moving.

Let’s view 2021 as the ray of new hope for a better life amid continuing challenges, not simply as a beginning of an end without applying lessons learned.

 

Heart of it

IMPROPERLY done or not, it shouldn’t really matter.  That’s the meat of the issue on the vaccination of soldiers guarding the President.  An investigation is being called as to how the PSG (Presidential Security Group) got hold of the vaccine.  Smuggled?  Donated?  Whatever, it is all water under the bridge now. It had served its purpose: The soldiers getting vaccinated would insulate the President from the COVID-19 pandemic.  As everybody knows, a healthy President equates to a healthy nation.  A President that falls ill could cause a crisis of unimaginable magnitude.  Only his foes would welcome that.  While the Food and Drug Administration admits to a possible breach of the law, it qualifies that no crime was committed insofar as the soldiers’ inoculation was concerned. The objective of the deed is the heart of it: Never compromise the health of the President.  Next case, please.

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