Propaganda says: Covid. Obey rules or we're all gonna die.
BBM says no more shut down despite an increase in cases of the newest covid variation. His aim is to get the economy going.
Good, since the dirty little secret is that despite a suspected huge number of cases, (few reported cases, because no one is getting tested for cold symptoms, but communinty surveillence suggests huge numbers) the actual death rate is low.
2,778 new cases and 11 new deaths in the Philippines
DOH: Over 73,000 dengue cases logged since January
and 280 deaths from Dengue so far this year.
again, from the Inquirer; the government has a plan to restart spraying insecticide to stop mosquitoes and encouraging people to wear clothes etc to stop mosquitoes from biting them.
-“Search and destroy” mosquito-breeding sites -employ “Self-protection measures” (i.e. wearing long pants and long sleeved shirts, and daily use of mosquito repellent)-“Seek early consultation” -“Support fogging/spraying” only in hotspot areas where an increase in cases is registered for two consecutive weeks to prevent an impending outbreak.
The DOH earlier said that the rising number of dengue infections in the country is “alarming,” and urged the public to be vigilant against the disease and monitor the number of cases.
this is higher than last year, where there were 73 thousand cases for the entire year.
A couple of years ago, when there was an outbreak, we had a lot of spraying, including the city sending a guy to spray our business compound and check for poor drainage areas. But with covid, I haven't seen any spraying being done. So apparantly this will be restarted in the near future.
Our area is one of the high risk areas, and our cook says there is a huge outbreak and some deaths in her native province in the Visayas. And now our secretary has a high fever and has avoided getting checked for fear of getting covid from visiting the hospital lab to get tested (I ordered her to go this morning, sending the cook with her to make sure she sees a doctor, so tests are pending).
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But dengue is an ongoing problem, not a new epidemic, so it has not been weaponized to frighten people into obeying the experts.
There are basic public health mearsures for diseases, and one problem with insect borne diseases is that the green types banned DDT and oppose spraying for mosquitoes. Nevertheless, we expect spraying to restart soon.
and dengue is not the only public health worry here in the Philippines: Childhood vaccinations are down, meaning that ordinary diseases like tetanus, diphtheria, polio, measles etc will start killing children, not just here, but all over the world.
however, don't expect to read anything about these things: the headlines I am reading are hyperventillating about monkey pox, which is being spread by close skin to skin contact in bodily areas where microabraisions allow the virus to infect you.
But one difference: unlike covid, which had government shutting down churches, gyms, schools, reataurants etc. for two years, I haven't seen anyone trying to shut down Pride celebrations and high risk party agendas because civil rights for gays is more important than keeping them healthy. (/s).
There is an experimental vaccine for this, but without isolation and basic quarantine measures the disease might spread faster than the shots can be given..
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Propaganda on global warming is the big thing now that covid panic has gone down.
the sky is falling! the Sky is falling!
cut back cowfarts, pesticides, fertilizer, and crops that produce greenhouse gases so that global warming can be stopped we are told.
and let the price of diesel/gasoline/LPG go up so you wicked SUV drivers will stop driving and use a bicycle. (never mind that farmers need cheap fuel to grow and transport food).
That is propaganda:
remember when mass starvation was predicted by Ehrlich in the 1980s?
Noman Bourlaug messed up that prediction, probably saved two million lives, and is almost unknown in today's world.
Never mind... but notice that the same Malthusian loving experts are still there: but now they are pushing the same agenda under the guise of global warming.
That propaganda now says we have to get rid of the green revolution to save the planet, and if poor people starve? they'll blame it on global warming.. and hey, the dirty little secret is that they want depopulation so losing millions of unproductive poor people would not be seen as a problem. Not a new philosophy among the elites, as anyone with Irish ancestors can tell you.
Inflation and hunger could kill millions in the near future, so embracing modern technology should be a partial answer:
but that hasn't stopped the EU from implementing the agenda of green activists who want to go back to the past.
This type of thinking was a disaster for Sri Lanka, and bodes poorly for other countries if they obey the experts and start using the same policy.
and now they are pushing it on farmers in Europe and in the USA.There are reports of farmers demonstrating in the Netherlands because the greens are telling them not to plant and to kill their cattle etc. to stop global warming...
The Dutch government plans to drastically reduce emissions of nitrogen oxide and ammonia, which are produced by livestock and fertilizer, by 2030. Cuts could reach 70% and even as high as 95% in some areas, under a plan recently adopted by Netherland lawmakers. For some Dutch farmers they see the writing on the wall and are fighting back because of it..
and the article goes into details of various methods of farming, and notes that environmental groups are using bureaucrats in the US to target US Farmers too.
there are reports of other countries having similar demonstrations, although the extend of these demonstrations has not been put into context so it is hard to judge what is going on there.
In contrast, BBM is vowing to help the small farmers to modernize, get fertilizer and help with planting rice (it is rice planting season right now).
there is an impending food crisis in the world, and we import rice, so helping small farmers to mechanize and grow high yield rice hybrids would lower the imports.
and to complicate the problem? Our stupid Catholic bishops are pushing the green agenda against cheap diesel, and are anti GMO crops. Because save the planet.
In the meanwhile, what is going on elsewhere? Lots of confused reports about Russia and Ukraine's wheat crop (which goes to the Middle East). One report worried that the Ukraine isn't planting: which assumes they plant in the Spring...but isn't wheat a winter wheat product in the Ukraine?, or do they grow it in summer? Don't ask me: it isn't clear. Reuters reported the harvest in the spring of the Ukraine's winter wheat was good.
and part of the problem is that the war could block shipping of grain.
so one would expect the US and Europe to try to fill in the gap to give their customers an alternative source of food.
But nooo....
and then there is drought in East Africa.
Actually, droughts in East Africa are common and happen every couple of years.
However, irrigation and eliminating the tsetse fly would enable East Africa to become another breadbasket similar to Kansas...if the greens don't stop them.
Dirty little secret: when Zimbabwe had a famine, the government would not let the donated US grain be imported for fear it was GMO. No word on how many died from that type of craziness.
the good news: China is now investing in Africa's infrastruture, partly because they see it as a way to feed their population in the future. And unlike western green friendly NGO's, I suspect China would push modern methods to do this (read pesticides, GMOs fertilizer etc).
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