Toby Tiangco has finally taken his vaccine — “with a heavy heart.”
As mayor of Navotas, Tiangco, 53, presides over a coastal suburban city of a quarter of a million who have lived off the sea largely. His own family owns a major fishing enterprise, equipped to work the farthest and deepest grounds west. The West Philippine Sea had been a prime national preserve until the Chinese began coming in greater and greater numbers and building demarcating structures and appropriating the sea.
Navotas, the most densely populated of the country’s towns and cities, has been one of the worst stricken. “Entire families here are getting [COVID-19],” Mayor Tiangco said. Even so, the lockdown has been eased, allowing some cross-town movement, especially for people working subsistence jobs, but only because the national government cannot afford further subsidy. The P1,000 it budgeted for each of the 23 million poorest citizens in the bubble for those two weeks of lockdown was the last of it — the barest monthly income a family of five can make do with is put officially at P10,500.
So, he took his Sinovac, standing up for the science that applies to the pandemic and is preached by his own doctor —— but only after he had put in a word of protest for country, which, as muted as it was, stood out in the general silence among local executives, who knew whom their vaccines were coming from. Baring “a heavy heart” to television news interviewer Karmina Constantino, Tiangco told her, “It’s all about the West Philippine Sea.
A vaccine developed at the University of Oxford, in the United Kingdom, did arrive, but as aid, on a World Health Organization humanitarian program. Also, it came in such a limited amount that by now half may have gone for the initial shots and the other half put in reserve for the complementary second. More of it has been promised, but only, similarly, in complimentary amounts and with no certain dates of arrival.
China must be filtering large sums of money to someone in order to do what they do to us including a questionable vaccine that he can't give away to the informed and now trying to push his expensive stock to seniors even though it's application is so bad it was initially exempted
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