Category Archives: Health & Medicine

Government, Health & Medicine, Social Media, Tourism, Travel

DOH Orders Mass Testing Of Dolphins At Bataan Marine Park

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MORONG, Bataan (The Adobo Chronicles, Morong Bureau) –  Health Secretary Francisco Duque has ordered the mass testing of all dolphins that came in contact with Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque in his visit to a marine park in Bataan on July 1.

Roque earlier said that his visit to Ocean Adventure Park in Subic, was just a “sidetrip” of an authorized trip to check on his family’s swine business and to distribute personal protective equipment to a nearby hospital.

Critics chastised Roque for sending mixed messages to the Filipino people. In all his press briefings, Roque constantly reminds everyone to wash their hands, wear a face mask and practice physical distancing as a way to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

“Based on photos posted on social media, Roque didn’t seem to have worn a mask nor practiced social distancing with the dolphins,” Duque said. “We don’t even know if he washed his hands before touching the dolphins,” he added.

Duque said his order for the swab testing of the dolphins is to make sure the sea creatures weren’t exposed to Covid, in case Roque was an asymptomatic carrier of the virus. The Health Secretary also ordered that the dolphins be quarantined pending the test results.

 

Government, Health & Medicine, Politics, Social Media

Survey About Richard Heydarian’s Survey: Duterte or Robredo ?

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Analyst extraordinaire Richard Heydarian surveyed his gullible fans on who they think would do a better job in dealing with the COVID-19 crisis in the Philippines. Lo and behold, Leni Robredo came up on top with more than three-fourths of the vote. President Rodrigo Duterte was a distant 3rd, behind Pasig City Mayor Vico Sotto.

But as we always say, there’s two sides to  every story, especially one that comes from Heydarian and his Yellow minions.

So in the interest of fairness and accuracy, The Adobo Chronicles is conducting its own HYPERthetical poll on who, really, Filipinos would prefer to be in charge during the pandemic.

Please participate in our survey, and share widely.

 

Government, Health & Medicine, Law Enforcement

IATF To Quarantine Filipinos Aged 21-59

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MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – Since the start of the Philippine governnment’s imposed community quarantine, Filipinos under 21 years old and senior citizens 60 and above have always been ordered to stay at home at all times. This, despite the subsequent easing down of the lockdowns from acronyms like ECQ to MECQ to GCQ to MGCQ.

Well, senior citizens are pushing back, arguing that they are being discriminated against based on their age, no matter that many of them are in prime health and are as strong as a bull.

Fearing serious backlash from its guidelines practically isolating seniors, the Inter-agency Task Force (IATF) in charge of promulgating Covid-19 policies, amended its latest resolution, turning the tables around.

For the remainder of the government lockdowns, the IATF is now ordering all Filipinos aged 21-59 to stay at home to give the chance to young people and senior citizens to also enjoy their freedom and Constitutional right of movement.

One senior citizen was overheard screaming, “Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty, free at last.”

For seniors, no more GCQ. Just MLK!