Sinovac: How safe and how real?

There goes President Duterte again, all praises for China for its “donation” of the first batch of 600,000 doses of Sinovac’s vaccines. Donation, by definition, is nothing more than an act of generosity and magnanimity without any expectation of getting anything in return. SINO BA ANG NILOLOKO NG GOBYERNONG ITO? Mr. Duterte has already allowed China to gobble up most of our territories and patrimony in the West Philippine Sea, the aggregate value of which is infinitely more than any planeload of made-in-China vaccines from that communist country.

Mr. Duterte and his high officials are trying hard to convince everyone that those Chinese vaccines are safe and effective by getting themselves injected with them to set an example. Curiously though, how sure are we that the vaccines they are supposedly risking their lives to be injected with are the ones from Sinovac, and not from the much safer and more effective Moderna, AstraZeneca, or Pfizer — all smuggled in? Cheating and lying are not beneath our current breed of public officials, as has been proven countless times.

CHIN CHIN KATIGBAK
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