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A 4-point lecture on the newest flavor of the month

Me on my bike, buying a bus ticket for my endless, pathless travels


Contractors are the newest flavor of the month, on the perennial issue of corruption. Or should I say, rather, they and their connects in government are the newest whipping boys of the “class-conscious” commentariat.

Most of us are now focused on the Discayas and the other contractors listed by PH President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos (BBM).

Not a big problem with me. The guilty ones must indeed be pilloried from post to post, at least in social media and other public arena if not in the courts and penal colonies where they belong.

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Mass transport is still possible during the Covid-19 crisis

post-lockdown tricycle

One of the worst kinds of ossified thinking in the present Lockdown Mindset, from which the Philippine government apparently cannot escape, is that the so-called Enhanced Community Quarantine cannot allow for mass transport vehicles to operate regularly because that would violate “social distancing” and defeat the very purpose of ECQ. To my surprise, even some progressives agree with this mindset. They apparently forgot that just before the NCR-wide lockdown on March 15 (which quickly turned into a Luzon-wide lockdown a day later), mass transport services were already starting to try and implement innovative ways to retool themselves to prevent rampant virus transmission inside public vehicles.

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