Ah, I see now. People who call for mass testing assume that if we know who are the Covid infected, there would be no need for quarantine or lockdowns. I don’t think so. Lockdowns and quarantine are not really dependent on testing, but on what experts decide is the best way to prevent the…

  They are not new issues, but these three points are worth reexamining in the time of ABS-CBN’s second closure. 1. Most media in the Philippines are either owned by politicians or business interests with political connections. Even the vaunted “fact-checkers” such as CMFR and Vera Files have admitted this. ABS-CBN has long been connected…

One of the funniest things I’ve heard from people ranting against Duterte is how they hate “one man-rule.” I wonder if they honestly think Duterte is in control of everything. Of course, I had the same idea before as a youngster, when I relied on sources that kept playing up how one person could be…

I might be jumping the gun, but there might be people who will make that emotional appeal or moral blackmail that if you don’t support ABS-CBN or even any of our local entertainment, you are a traitor. Because you are Filipino, it is your duty should watch and praise Filipino-made shows. Patriotism, they say. Hogwash.…

There was a post saying “take a stand on the ABS-CBN” issue. Either you support ABS-CBN or you are a supporter of dictatorship and corruption, the post implies. It’s again “either you’re with us or against us.” Hogwash. I call on my right to be ambivalent on the issue because there is middle ground. I…

The incident in Dasmariñas Village in Makati seems to have people up in arms against the police again, not long after the Ragos shooting. A video shows a police officer tackling and trying to cuff what looks like a foreign man just in front of his house, who later escaped back into the house. The…

Remember the days when if you’d refuse to touch someone dirty, you’d be seen as “maarte” (overacting) or “matapobre” (acting like a rich snob)? Or that passed-around story of Imelda Marcos telling her Blue Ladies not to bring soap or sanitizer when meeting poor people? Nowadays, that’s seen as wise. Thanks to Covid-19, people are…

Many are up in arms over the police officer who killed a former army man in Quezon City. Many defend the policeman, saying the former army man should have complied and not reached into his bag. Others say the policeman should have not reacted that way and could have avoided shooting Ragos, the army man.…

There are lots of videos now on this, but this is what I watched first. Sense of entitlement is one big case of toxic behavior, whatever gender you call up (maybe inventing genders is itself toxic?).