Today’s Editorials & Cartoons: Enforcement challenge
The Editor
PHILIPPINES
Philippine Daily Inquirer
With COVID-19 cases in Metro Manila surging to a new record high since the pandemic began in 2020 — at least 28,707 cases as of Sunday — people are desperately clinging to any assurance that the end to this crippling health crisis is in sight.
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Seeing the government exhaust all means to protect Filipinos from the virus would be a real blessing—and an assurance that people won’t fall prey to such dangerous notions as Omicron being the “blessing” we’ve all been waiting for.
Read more: https://opinion.inquirer.net/148539/a-virus-not-a-vaccine
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COMMENT: It was taken as out of context when it was said that a Virus is a Vaccine.. Sinovax is based on his theory in giving immunity to the vaccinated..
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We need to unlock more of Omicron’s secrets
LAST week, OCTA Research fellow Fr. Nicanor Austriaco boldly declared that the Omicron is the “beginning of the end” of the Covid-19 pandemic.
“Omicron is going to provide the kind of population immunity that will stabilize our societies and should allow us to reopen after Omicron has begun. It should provide the population protection that we need everywhere,” the microbiologist said.
A recent Social Weather Stations survey shows at least 80 percent of Filipinos hope that the “worst” phase of the pandemic is over. That could be a sign of what a virus expert describes as “variant fatigue.” That’s when people start to accept that “this is what viruses do; we just need to get on with our lives.”
“Variant fatigue” is just a more fancy term for complacency.
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EDITORIAL – Enforcement challenge
Considering the tortuous path to its passage, the enactment of the law imposing a total ban on child marriage has been widely hailed. As in other contentious pieces of legislation, the next challenge is its effective implementation.
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The Commission on Population and Development had warned that child marriages also meant unwanted teen pregnancies, whose prevalence had raised alarm bells among economists and child welfare advocates even before the pandemic. Now that there is a law imposing a total ban on child marriage, it must be effectively enforced to the fullest extent.
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Pilipino Star Ngayon
EDITORYAL – Magtayo ng COVID waste facilite
KARANIWANG makikita sa kalsada ang mga ginamit na face mask na basta na lamang itinapon. Hindi lang face mask ang nakikitang nakakalat ngayon kundi pati na rin mga ginamit na COVID test kit. Maging sa pusod ng dagat, nakakarating ang mga binasurang face mask at PPEs.
Kapag napag-usapan ang basurang pandemya, hindi maiwasang itanong kung meron na bang pasilidad na pinagdadalhan sa mga basura nito.
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Ngayong tumaas na naman ang kaso ng COVID (kahapon naitala ang pinakamataas na kaso, 33,169), marami na namang basura ang lilikhain araw-araw. Ipursigi ng DENR ang COVID waste facilities.
KOMENTO: Its long over for all kind of waste to manage…
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The Straits Times says:
US needs to heal its democratic divide
It is disquieting that the United States cannot say with complete confidence today, that its democratic institutions can guarantee a peaceful transfer of power. Failures at multiple levels resulted in the storming of the Capitol building last year by a mob in a perverse attempt to stop the electoral college certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election. The event that tarnished a hallmark democracy and led to tragic deaths and injuries remains an open wound still waiting to be dressed. President Joe Biden’s speech last week on the first anniversary of the Jan 6 riots could mark a start. Although he did not call out Mr Donald Trump by name, Mr Biden made 16 references to the “former president” to pin his culpability in the insurrection that left five people dead and more than a hundred injured. How the US resolves the crisis will be watched the world over.
There were no new revelations in Mr Biden’s speech on the attacks carried out by Mr Trump’s supporters. Accountability still remains to be established. Criminal charges have been filed against more than 725 people. Mr Trump is not one of them although a congressional probe into his involvement in the riots is ongoing. He has refused to acknowledge his own role, although he was impeached by the House of Representatives on a count of inciting an insurrection. A Senate trial acquitted him after only seven senators from his Republican party voted to convict him.
READ MORE: https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/st-editorial/us-needs-to-heal-its-democratic-divide
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BANGKOK POST
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EDITORIAL COLUMN
Patients need guidance
As Thailand encounters the fifth wave of Covid-19 infections, clear guidance for health workers and patients is needed to avoid communication problems that can put patients at risk and undermine the government’s Covid response.
Dr Prasit Watanapa, dean of Mahidol University’s Faculty of Medicine, said the number of infections could surge to 20,000 to 30,000 by the end of this month.
READ MORE: https://www.bangkokpost.com/opinion/opinion/2244863/patients-need-guidance
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