By Manuel L. Morato
It is very difficult for me to follow Presidential adviser on Entrepreneurship Jose Ma. “Joey” Concepcion III who recently vouched “for the safety and efficacy of all coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid 19) vaccines that were authorized and approved for use.” By whom may I ask? Who were the ones who authorized or approved for use please?
Your father Joe ay aking kababata, pati yong kapatid niya. We belong to the same group of friends during our younger days. Our last work together was when we headed the Gusi Peace Prize. My term was from 2007 to 2010. It’s hardwork, more so for the founder, Barry Gusi and his late wife. Joe, your father, took over the presidency after me.
Confidence towards any product or any person is not based nor does it hinge on the say-so of those who “authorized or approved for use.” Kindly mention who they are, if you want the people to have more confidence on the “approved for use” vaccines. Who are they, may we ask? How qualified are they? We are dealing with precious lives here. Hindi ito biro-biro.
One thing I’d like to emphasize is that we are all concerned about what is good for our people. That’s a given. I, for one, am bombarded by people asking for help. I have to make it clear to them that I am not in the PCSO anymore. But there are still some people who seek for help. Modesty aside, to this day because of the many years I served in the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office, attending to the sick, the poor, the needy who needed help is not easy to shove it aside. For about 13 to 14 years I served in that office under two former Presidents. It is not easy to shed it off my shoulders. Some still call for guidance as to where they could get some help; and some go as far as asking for a note from me addressed to the PCSO para daw sila’y matulungan. Pirmi ko po sinasabi na hindi po ako nakikialam sa patakaran ng PCSO ngayon. Hindi po ako nalapit para magbigay ng opinyon, o alamin kung ano ang ginagawa po ngayon nong mga na-appoint po doon. In the first place, ayaw ko pong makialam sa gawain ng PCSO ngayon. I respect those who were appointed by our President Duterte.
May mga tumatawag na mga naroroon pa na mga appointees ko pa; or mga naging kasamahan ko.
The most I can ask them, yong nasa PCSO pa ngayon, ay saan ba puwede matulungan yong mga nahingi ng tulong na mahihirap at kapus-palad na may sakit?
I am told to tell the patients to go to the “Malasakit Center.” Ang problema ko po, wala po akong kakilala sa “Malasakit” na mahingan ng tulong para sa mga taong may sakit.
I’ve written about this problem in one of my columns kung puwede po ako makahingi ng listahan ng mga Malasakit Centers to help those who are asking for help. I really wanted to spread the word. I want to guide those who are asking for medical assistance. Wala po akong natanggap na sagot.
I really wanted to help spread what the “Malasakit Centers” can do for the sick, poor and needy people. Nakakaawa po kasi sanay po sila humingi ng tulong sa PCSO. Sanay na din po kung papaano at kung anong mga papeles ang dapat nilang dalhin.
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Let me continue what I started to say in this column.
To Presidential Adviser, Joey Concepcion: I am not a spokesperson for people to have themselves vaccinated. That’s a totally different topic for me kasi yon pong nasa gobiyerno na po ang may “say” diyan. But how do we explain the many vaccinated people who die after being vaccinated? Not only here, but worldwide. It is our moral obligation to help explain why so many innocent people who were vaccinated are dying – both rich and poor.
I get text messages of people dying after being vaccinated. What do we tell the people if they somewhat fear being vaccinated? Nahahawa pa rin ang mga taong nabakunahan. So, tell us the advantages, if any. How can we help build confidence when our people hear, read and know kung sinu-sino ang namatay at namatayan, here and abroad?
There is indeed room for doubt. Not from me, nor this column, mind you. We are all duty-bound to always tell the truth. No lies please because it’s a life and death situation. We cannot monkey around that. We must agree to disagree, if need be, to reach to a rightful conclusion.
The news on facebook is much more potent than this column. What you say and what I say may not be listened to for who are we when it comes to scientists/doctors speaking worldwide on zoom? We don’t know whom to believe anymore.
Ang tanong ng marami: Bakit hindi inilalabas sa CNN, at sa regular TV stations, local and international? May pumipigil ba?
We have to tell the truth that there are deaths caused by the vaccine. Accept that vaccines are still on trial and experimental stage. Even the pharmaceutical companies say that. Ayaw ko din marinig na may namamatay after vaccination. More so pag inosenteng tao ang namatay dahil sa vaccine o bakuna. Ang hirap po tanggapin. I rather side with caution than help build up confidence on the so-called “approved vaccines” by shysters whom we do not even know kung anong pinag-basehan nila. Para sa kanila, negosyo lang yan. Para sa mga inosenteng tao, sino ang tutulong sa kanila?
Let’s go down to brass tacks: Who approved those vaccines? The owners of the pharmaceutical companies? We need more assurance from other experts to affirm the reliability of the products.
Let us accept that there is nothing better than to tell the truth to our people at all time, than build their “confidence” on vaccines that harmed and killed; or gave adverse effect. How do you do it? I cannot tell how to build that confidence for I am a constant recipient of sad news. How can I honestly not listen to what the relatives of the victims are saying?
I cannot do it. I never lie to the people. I never even did that during my term in government service, much less now that I am a nobody.
As a media person, kami ang hingahan ng taong may nais iventilate ang sakit ng loob.
Let me give an example. I received a text: “Mr. Ricardo Go of Sulpicio Lines found dead 2 days after AstraZeneca vaccine.” How about a 41 year old businessman in Meycauayan, Bulacan who recently died after being vaccinated? His friend mentioned it to me yesterday. And many others too long to mention.
I even hate to hear of people not known to me who also died or are now suffering from adverse effect of the vaccine given them? And others after vaccination, symptoms of Alzheimer triggered?
What is happening abroad in many first world countries are very sad to hear as well. Old persons housed in nursing home for the aged have been wiped out after vaccination that caused German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, to cancel mass vaccination in Germany.
As I’ve always said, those people to be vaccinated must undergo a medical examination at baka may sakit na hindi dapat bakunahan. Importante po ito at pag nabakunahan ang may sakit o may karamdaman, puwede pong ikamatay nong tao yong bakuna.
Mga kababayan natin na may karamdaman hindi po dapat bakunahan. Yong may asthma, lagnat, tuberculosis, allergies at mahihina ang katawan dahil sa kulang sa pagkain at nanghihina, hindi din po dapat bakunahan at puwedeng ikamatay.
Talaga pong nakakalungkot ang kalagayan ng buong mundo ngayon. Bakit nagka-ganito?
I’ve lost so many dear friends from this devil-sent Pandemic. To name a few: my most admired eye doctor, Cosme Naval. Eye doctor of my mother as well. Fely Abaya, a very close and dear friend of my family also died of Covid last November without us knowing about it.
The same goes to members of the Reyes family of Aristocrat Restaurant; relative of Joe Marie Chan; my close friend Archbishop Oscar Cruz; and others. Pati nga po yong watch service center na pinupuntahan ko, si Mang Mario na kabait na tao, namatay na rin po.
The U.S. has its share of sadness; Brazil as well, and practically all countries of the world that in one way or another suffered from this pandemic.
As many are saying, the Coronavirus is “man-made” to reduce the population of the world. It’s intentional, planned and executed. But who are these people playing god? What God Almighty has given, let no one put asunder.
Someday, the no-do-gooders will suffer from Divine Justice.
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