We are exactly a month old with our enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) and the last report I got from the Department of Health (DOH) on the COVID-19 cases is 7,579 on the number of cases all over the Philippines, while of this number 862 have already recovered and total deaths have reached 501. For a nation of more than a hundred million, these figures are quite small… but it is hoped that we can get the right medicine for this virus that has spread around the world.
If there is any good news I heard lately, it is that the Earth is healing quite fast. Remember the dreaded Ozone Layer in the northern atmosphere? I got a scientific report that this hole has not shut down and no longer a treat to humanity. Before the COVID-19 forced the nations on this earth to lockdown, our air was so polluted. Today the polluted air has disappeared because people are not going out anymore. This is the positive thing happening with our planet Earth.
Remember the old saying, “In the end China will win?” Fortunately for the Chinese people, this was already happening to them, as they have become a world economic power. However, I started to focus on the relationship of Communist China and the rest of the nations that COVID-19 has awaken… most nations have literally surrendered their manufacturing capability to China because it makes things very cheap. Politicians of almost all nations submit to China’s cheap labor because this is actually ordained by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) that wages are to be controlled so that in the end… China controls the needs of the world by manufacturing what the world needs so cheaply. Then later on they raise prices!
What has the COVID-19 debacle taught our world leaders? That surrendering their manufacturing businesses to China was a huge mistake (In Rome for instance, all their tourism objects including religious statues for sale are made in China). Not only for their economy, but today 95 percent of pharmaceutical companies are based in China and in the end because they now control this business they can overprice medical products and the world is helpless to fight this issue.
Remember in 2016 when Donald Trump run for President? His mantra was “America First” and today, Americans are waking up to this reality that Pres. Trump was correct. Now, thanks to this coronavirus, nations like Germany, Sweden, Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom and many African and European nations have lately realized their mistake in surrendering their manufacturing to Communist China because of their cheap prices which actually comes from cheap labor allowed by the CCP. Many of these nations want China to pay reparations for destroying their economies. This is going to be a major global issue in the coming year.
While the rest of the world are trying to restart their economy… world leaders should wake up to the new order after the COVID-19 and this is for them to restart their manufacturing processes that they once gave up to China. Perhaps the G-7 should meet up and come up with new guidelines for the world to follow. Look at Japan… they are paying Japanese companies to move out of China and set up their businesses in Japan.
At this point, I would like to suggest to the Duterte government to try and get some Japanese companies to set up in the Philippines. After all, we know too well that Japanese companies that open in the Philippines are doing very well. A great example is the Tsuneishi Heavy Industries that build huge cargo vessels in Balamban, in the Western side of Cebu Island.
I know that Pres. Duterte is very friendly to China… but he should be apprised as to what China has been doing to the rest of the world while we also restart our economy.
Meanwhile I got this report from Sen. Cynthia Villar that workers from the agriculture, construction and manufacturing sectors should be allowed to return to work to prevent widespread hunger, social unrest and criminality that may be triggered by the prolonged enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) in Luzon and other parts of the country.
However, since last week when I suggested to our 24 Senators for them to immediately stop the construction of the P8.9 billion new Senate building located in an 18,320 square meter parcel of land owned by the Bases Conversion and Development Authority, located at the Navy Village in Fort Bonifacio. But lo and behold… I only heard a deafening silence from our Senators! I hope that Sen. Cynthia Villar would sponsor a resolution to immediately stop the construction of this new Senate building as it is ultra extravagant and the country has no need to house only 24 Senators in a so expensive edifice. I further suggested that the Senate funds a new hospital ship that can dock in many places in the Visayas and Mindanao that has no hospitals at all. But still no word from our Senators! Hoy gising na kayo!
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