At first, I didn’t believe the Presidential Communications Operations Office memo of directions to government media platforms signed by Usec/OIC George Apacible. It was too chilling to be true. But they owned up to it! News and Information Bureau Director Virginia Arcilla-Agtay defended that they are not ordered to tell a lie. “It is simply amplifying facts.
For example, this info without explanation can be misleading: According to Johns Hopkins Corona Virus Resource Center updated April 29,2021, the Philippines has third least number of deaths per 100 confirmed cases or 100,000 population. Sounds impressive. But the very first sentence of the report source says, “For the twenty countries MOST AFFECTED BY COVID-19 WORLDWIDE.
In a Philippine News Agency website article on April 28, the PCOO cited a Worldometers ranking where we are on “28th spot out of more than 200 countries.” It is incomplete. In Worldometers, we are 26th with the MOST NUMBER of total COVID cases as of April 28, 2021. Last April 26, Bloomberg came up with its own COVID Resilience Rankings. Being Bloomberg, they factored in the impact on the economy. On this list, the Philippines is ranked No.45. But Bloomberg only listed 53 countries. Singapore is 1; Vietnam, 11; Thailand, 13; Malaysia, 20; Indonesia is even better at 34!
Sugar? Mwah!
Cover-up.
Tsk tsk tsk
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