UPDATE: Manila – 492 COVID 19 confirmed positive cases with Sampaloc having 106

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48-hour ‘hard lockdown’ on Sampaloc to start April 23 -Isko

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COVID 19 – DILAWANG QC exec may DIVERSIONARY TACTIC, BINANATAN si Pangulong Duterte, DoH para mapagtakpan ang KAPALPAKAN ng LGU

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COVID 19 – Ex DILG Sec Alunan – QC, MILYONG residente inilagay sa PANGANIB, TAKEOVER dapat ang KYUSI LGU

Dekada nang nagagamit ng mga taga Kyusi ang maraming Department of Health national hospitals – Heart Center, Lung Center, Kidney Center, East Avenue, Quirino, Orthopedic, National Children’s at Lungsod ng Kabataan. Diba sa Metro Manila at sa buong Pilipinas, malaking biyaya sa mga taga Quezon City na andyan yang mga malalaking ospital habang yung iba kailangan pa maglakbay ng malayo? Ngayon namang may pambansang sakunang pangkalusugan, andyan ang DSWD, DOLE at iba pang mga sangay ng pamahalaan para magbigay ayuda sa mga mamamayan ng Kyusi. So ano ang sinasabi nitong kinatawan ng QC na walang tulong na natatanggap ang pamahalaang lungsod?

Alam naman natin kung bakit nagpahayag ng mapait na pananalita? Sapagkat nababatikos ang QC Mayor na si Joy Belmonte dahil sa KAHINAAN at KAPALPAKAN. Lalo pa ngayong marami na ang nananawagang MAGBITIW na si mayora. Dati puro celebrity at showbiz lang ang bumabanat pero ngayon maski ang dating DILG Secretary Rafael Alunan ang nagsasabi na dapat na raw na maTAKEOVER ang pamamahala ng QC at tanggalin na sa mga kamay ng kasalukuyang PALPAK na punong lungsod. Sa madaling salita, DIVERSIONARY TACTIC lang ang pahayag ng QC para MAPAGTAKPAN ang sarili nilang pagkukulang sa mga mamamayan.

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Walang ayuda simula’t sapul ng COVID-19 crisis QC
SAKSI NGAYON
April 13, 2020

WALANG natanggap na anomang suporta ang Quezon City government mula sa pamahalaang nasyunal simula nang pumutok ang coronavirus disease 2019 sa bansa.

Ito ang akusasyon ni Quezon City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office head Mike Marasigan matapos suportahan ng mga residente ng lungsod ang panukala ni dating Department of Interior and Local Government chief Rafael Alunan III na i-takeover na ng Inter-Agency Task Force (IATF) ang pamamahala sa lungsod.

Mistulang inakusahan ni Marasigan ang pamahalaang Duterte at maging ang Department of Health (DOH) na pinabayaan ang kanilang lungsod pagdating sa ayuda kaya ito napag-iiwanan sa pagtugon sa pandemyang COVID-19.

Saad pa ng QC official, paanong ipapasa sa IATF ang pamamalakad sa QC government gayung sila pa ang hinihingian kahit ng simpleng kagamitan tulad ng body bags.

“IATF in all due respect has not gave any support to QC. Even the DOH hospitals which are national, ask help from QC. We are catering to dead bodies not only from QC residents but other LGUs as well. How can you depend on them? We are even asked for a simple body bags,” komento ni Marasigan.

Naghihimutok si Marasigan dahil hindi aniya lahat ng nasasawing COVID patients sa mga ospital sa lungsod ay residente ng Quezon City. Bagaman prayoridad aniya ng mga pampublikong ospital sa lungsod ang mga residente nito ay hindi rin naman maaaring tanggihan ang mga taga ibang lugar ‘for humanitarian reasons’.

Umapela rin si Marasigan sa mga taga Quezon City na sa halip bumatikos ay samahan siyang dumalo sa daily operation briefing ng QC Incident Management team upang malaman ang totoong nangyayari sa lungsod.

Ngunit hindi naman ito kinagat ng mga residente, sa halip, hinanapan nila ng konkretong pagtugon ang pamahalaang lungsod sa kinakaharap na problema sa COVID-19.
Binatikos sa social media ang paraan ng pamamahala ni QC Mayor Joy Belmonte matapos ang magkakasunod nitong kapalpakan kabilang na ang mabagal na pagtugon sa pangangailangan ng mga residente ng lungsod.

Kamakailan ay nagprotesta ang ilang residente ng Sitio San Roque dahil hindi umano sila naabot ng ayudang food packs mula sa city hall. Nauwi sa dispersal ang protesta dahil sa paglabag ng mga residente sa pinaiiral na social distancing at inaresto at kinasuhan ang 21 sa mga ito.

Kinondena rin ng mga residente ang pamamahagi ng tanggapan ni Belmonte ng food packs at health kits na nakalagay sa mga bag na may pangalan ng alkalde.

Nito lamang nakalipas na Sabado, ikinadismaya ng netizens ang pagdagsa ng mga mamimili sa Balintawak market na malinaw na paglabag sa physical distancing na ipinatutupad upang maiwasang kumalat ang virus.

Kasunod nito, dumagsa naman ang mga tricycle driver at operator sa Quezon City hall para kunin ang tig-P2,000 ayuda ng lungsod.

Ilang driver ang nagreklamo dahil marami sa kanila ang hindi nakatanggap ng cash assistance.

Saad pa ng mga ito, mas mainam sana kung ipinasa na lang sa presidente ng bawat TODA ang pamimigay ng ayuda sa halip na pinapunta sila sa city hall.

Laking pagkadismaya ng mga residente sa nasabing magkasunod na insidente na nagpapakita umano ng kahinaan at kawalan ng direksyon ng pamumuno ni Belmonte.

Hindi rin nila nagustuhan ang mabilis na tugon ng alkalde na “fake news” ang idinulog na problema ng ilang frontliners sa batikang mamamahayag na si Arnold “Igan” Clavio.

Nag-ugat ito sa isiniwalat ni Igan na kapos sa cadaver bags ang isang ospital kaya maraming nasawi na hinihinalang dulot ng COVID-19, ang naipon sa hallway ng morgue nito.

“Yung mga statement ni mayora isn’t helping the situation,” reklamo ng isang residente.

“Binoto siya sa position na ‘yan kaya we expect her to do more kasi obviously kulang e,” pahayag ng isa pang residente.

TUMIGIL ANG BILANG

Samantala, hindi magkatugma ang bilang ng kaso ng COVID-19 na iniulat ng DOH at ng Quezon City Epidemiology and Surveillance Unit (QCESU) noong Sabado ng gabi.

Ayon sa DOH, umakyat na sa 764 ang kaso ng COVID-19 sa lungsod. Subalit ang naturang bilang na naitala ng DOH ay malayo sa naitala ng QCESU na umabot lamang sa 580 hanggang noong alas-7:00 ng gabi ng Abril 11, 2020.

Sa kabila nito, wala pa umanong paliwanag ang QCESU kung bakit ang kaso ng COVID-19 sa lungsod ay nanatiling nasa 580 pa lamang at hindi ito gumalaw.

Usap-usapan din sa social media ang magkakaibang bilang ng mga bangkay na nananatili sa East Avenue Medical Center nitong Linggo matapos umanong kunin ng mga punerarya para ma-cremate ang mga nasawi na naipon sa nasabing pagamutan.

Ayon kay Marasigan, noong Sabado pa ‘nahakot’ ng mga punerarya ang mga labi at mayroon na ring sapat na body bags ang ospital.

Ngunit sa pagtatanong ng isang mamamahayag kung ilan pa ang naiwang bangkay sa EAMC, ang tugon ni Mayor Joy Belmonte ay wala na (0), habang si DOH Sec. Francisco Duque ay nagsabing mayroon na lamang limang bangkay na naiwan, si EAMC Spokesman Dr. Dennis Ordoña ay nagsabing mayroon pang 9, habang si DENR Usec. Benny Antiporda ay nagsabing 15 pang mga labi ang nasa pagamutan.

Sa panayam ni Arnold Clavio, Lunes ng umaga, kay Dr. Ordoña, inulit nito ang naunang pahayag na siyam pa ang mga bangkay na nasa EAMC at hindi zero (0) gaya ng ulat ng QC LGU.

Ayon pa kay Ordoña, ang QC LGU ang may responsibilidad pagdating sa cremation ng lahat ng COVID-19 patients, ayon na rin sa IATF at DOH protocol regardless kung saan probinsya o lungsod nakatira ang mga naturang nasawi taliwas sa pahayag ni QCDRRMC head Marasigan na base sa kanilang polisiya, prayoridad ang mga residente ng lungsod pagdating sa cremation at hindi ang mga nakatira sa ibang lugar.

Base sa pahayag na ito ni Marasigan, malinaw na nilalabag nito ang protocol na dapat sa loob ng 12-oras ay cremated na ang labi ng mga namatay sa virus.

(SAKSI NGAYON NEWS TEAM)

READ: https://balitangbalita.com/2020/04/16/covid-19-ex-dilg-sec-alunan-qc-milyong-residente-inilagay-sa-panganib-takeover-dapat-ang-kyusi-lgu/

Wilbur Demafiles, MD

The early days of the COVID 19 pandemic in the Philippines saw the demise of health workers, mostly in their 60s – Dr. Greg Macasaet, Dr. Raul Jara, Dr. Francisco Lukban, Dr. Sally Gatchalian. The exception was Dr. Israel Bactol who was in his thirties. The death of the elderly is a characteristic of this coronavirus that attacks the respiratory system and usually takes weeks to kill the patient. Naturally, senior citizens with hypertension, obesity, diabetes, long smoking history and cardiac/pulmonary problems would be the first to fall.

As we are now in the seventh week of QUARANTINE or LOCKDOWN, we are seeing the deaths of younger FRONTLINERS and the the only logical reason is the drastic deterioration of their health status and immune response due to continuous or prolonged duty hours (overwork/exhaustion), lack of sleep and the obvious stress associated with knowing that the patients they are treating may pass on the disease to them.

At least 24 MDs dead in COVID 19 FRONTLINE

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COVID 19 fight is SIEGE WARFARE – Jarius Bondoc

QC is the WUHAN CITY of the Philippines, 19% of national total, 942 confirmed positive cases out of 4932

Quezon City is COVID 19 Capital of the Philippines with 1000 plus confirmed positive cases

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Starve the virus in this siege warfare – general
GOTCHA – Jarius Bondoc (The Philippine Star )
April 20, 2020

Strategist Marine general Orlando de Leon (ret.) sees the COVID-19 onslaught as siege warfare. In medieval times an army encircling a fortress prevents rations from getting in. The besieged must hold out till the enemy runs low on food and leaves. Whoever starves first loses.

De Leon’s two-part analysis can guide government planners on options, and correct mistakes. Families – the frontlines – can better understand their roles as part of a whole war effort against pandemic.

A Philippine Military Academy grad, 1982, de Leon planned and executed countless battles against separatists and terrorists. He was Marine vice commandant, then Armed Forces West Mindanao commander, before retiring in 2015. Excerpted with his permission is “A Quarantined Mind”:

“This continues my post the other night wherein I promised to answer some questions. May I remind that I don’t wish to provoke a fight, only some thoughts. A quarantined hence idle mind, I feel so free to ramble on.

“Where I left off I averred that: (1) I don’t consider our health workers as frontlines, and (2) we misallocated tasks. The family and the home are the frontline.

“As a general I considered our medical personnel part of our rear elements. In the thick of battle we bring casualties to a collection point for first aid, then transfer them farther back the line for medical attention. I never dreamed my medical personnel, my rear, will fight for me. The implication being, that I have been overrun by the enemy … that I have failed. Time for hara-kiri.

“Why are we in this very situation now? Why is our rear fighting in front? Have we been overrun? Not yet. In near panic we failed to determine which our front and rear are. We scrambled to take a grip of the situation while innovating on courses of action. This is normal; 80 percent of commanders would react similarly. I would have had the same mind frame, confronted with an invisible, invincible enemy. But we need to recover from shock, reassess, then reconsolidate our position.

“What type of war are we fighting? How are we to fight?

“Siege Warfare. I never imagined I would be fighting a medieval-type war in the frontlines (in defense of my family and integrity of my home). A siege involved surrounding a town, castle or fortress by an army attempting to capture it. The ‘besieged’ are those inside holding fort.

“A siege aims to cut off all resources from getting in, to force the defenders to venture out and be annihilated. Storing resources for the long haul, the defenders can hold out till the attackers leave. The latter would leave because of diminished ration and inability to live off the land. Whoever starves first loses.

“Are the besieged confined to waiting it out? No. It is a question of survival. Food and other resources can only go so far. The average siege in medieval times was six to nine months. The besieged sometimes ventured out to forage for food. That is when they became vulnerable to the enemy.

“We are in this predicament. We are besieged by the virus to a point that we cannot move out of our perimeters. We lost the first round. We allowed our enemy to enter our gates, our borders. We did not take advantage of our natural barriers (man-made moats in medieval times) to prevent the enemy from barging through. Our frontlines then were the BI, BOC, DOTr, DFA, etc. When those frontlines were overrun, we were in the first stages of preparing for a long fight. The onslaught was so fast it reached our rear. That brought us to thinking our health workers are the frontlines.

“We also [wrongly] assumed that COVID-19 could be defeated by maneuver warfare. Maneuvers aim to trap or bring the enemy to your chosen battlefield for the coup de grace. But how will you entrap an invisible enemy? Can we prevent and detect them at checkpoints? Can curfew make a dent? If we think so, we are doomed. Checkpoint is the worst violator of social distancing.

“Let us stop thinking our health workers are fighting. What they are doing is heal the sick and tend to casualties from the frontlines. They can become collateral casualties. [Let’s] focus on preventing casualties from piling. The front should be equipped and trained properly to fight.

“How do I fight? (1) I see this fight as a siege. I cannot see the enemy; therefore, I should confine myself to the safest garrison available, my home. (2) I consider my door the forward edge of battle. Any enemy who knocks on it, I will “slay” – decontaminate – to not breach my security. (3) I am the commander of my frontline (home and family). (4) I will discourage and prevent any family member to go out and be exposed to the enemy unless necessary.

“I can only be effective in my task to hold the fort if my superiors at the rear bring forward the logistics. I have simple needs to fight: (1) Food; (2) Armor or Quarantine Suit (PPEs, alcohol, other essentials); (3) Reinforced knowledge of the enemy. Like in the medieval siege, the besieged family will only allow a member to go out on a necessity. He will be required to wear armor.

“These measures will starve out the enemy into leaving us alone.”

(Part of the armor is a new app-based “contact warning” – JB)

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Mitchie Bongon. check this out.

6259 confirmed COVID 19 positive cases to date. Government preparing for more cases to come. Hospitals are overwhelmed. Hotels, cruise ships, sports arenas and other buildings will serve as temporary quarantine and treatment areas.

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Jennylin Cabarubbias Linao. Nurse. Duty to Serve. She died in a car crash on her way to work.

In her Facebook post she said “I cannot stay at home. I’m a nurse. We fight when others can’t anymore”.

Her messages showed courage and determination to help others.