Early in the COVID-19 crisis, President Duterte sought to calm people’s fears amid the world’s longest and harshest lockdown by reassuring them that relief was on the horizon. Before the year was over, he said last year, a vaccine against this deadly variant of the coronavirus would be developed and made available to the people. Even then, the President dangled the possibility of a “made-in-China” vaccine that, he claimed, Chinese authorities had assured him would be
Remember Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin Jr.’s charge that the Philippines had the opportunity (he arranged it) to contract with Pfizer for the delivery of vaccines as early as January this year—and that the government flubbed it? Somebody was talking about “kick-vacs,” but it couldn’t have been Pfizer bribing someone in the government, right? Why should Pfizer do such a thing? But nobody pressed the bribery issue, so it died. And the flubbing issue also died, when it was discovered that it was Gen. Carlito Galvez Jr. and the President who were the ones dribbling the ball too long, so the
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