Some notes..
You're assuming people still have jobs.. many have been out of work for months and don't even have that.
There's very little comfort in areas that have been hard hit, and less hope. Filipinos aren't strangers to that, but it's starting to wear on people.
Let's set aside for a moment that Sinopharm has the dubious distinction of being worse than AZ.. very few people there trust any of these vaccines. Instances of someone "being vaccinated" and coming down with covid symptoms shortly thereafter / dying are everywhere, but the public correlates them as deaths due to vaccine, not that the vaccine was administered into an ongoing covid infection, which ended up being lethal.
Many Filipinos have a much wider view of the world as a result of friends and families working abroad.. they're acutely aware of whose boot is on their necks, and the spectre of imperialists doesn't really feature as much these days.
If/when it becomes known what LLMab can do, there will be a fairly large amount of resentment, I agree. The rest of the world will probably feel the same way, with the possible exception of Brazil.
Quote:But if I am one of those 20% with USD 175 a month or even a member of the middle-class with the family income between USD450-1500 I wouldn't be happy at all with the way the system works.
You're assuming people still have jobs.. many have been out of work for months and don't even have that.
Quote:Still I may find some comfort in the relative accessibility of the Chinese vaccine or in the hope of having a mild case and even the idea that all pandemics end sooner or later.
There's very little comfort in areas that have been hard hit, and less hope. Filipinos aren't strangers to that, but it's starting to wear on people.
Let's set aside for a moment that Sinopharm has the dubious distinction of being worse than AZ.. very few people there trust any of these vaccines. Instances of someone "being vaccinated" and coming down with covid symptoms shortly thereafter / dying are everywhere, but the public correlates them as deaths due to vaccine, not that the vaccine was administered into an ongoing covid infection, which ended up being lethal.
Quote:And Professor Sison's Communist Party tell the Filipino poor (the majority of the country) that only by liberating their country of Yankee imperialism--which incidentally includes the FDA and BPharma-
Many Filipinos have a much wider view of the world as a result of friends and families working abroad.. they're acutely aware of whose boot is on their necks, and the spectre of imperialists doesn't really feature as much these days.
If/when it becomes known what LLMab can do, there will be a fairly large amount of resentment, I agree. The rest of the world will probably feel the same way, with the possible exception of Brazil.
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