CHINA NOW REPORTS COVID TALLY SINCE 2021

 

Puzzling it maybe but China reports covid deaths after more than a year of hiatus since year January 25, 2021 as the country currently battles its most worst outbreak so far.

China's National Health Commission website listed two deaths in its currently most hit region Jilin

which borders Russia and North Korea.  Since the pandemic began, China now reports through its health commission that as of March 18, 2022 deaths now tally to 4,638  with 2,228 confirmed new cases compared to that of 2,416 from the tally a day earlier. It was recorded that 2,157 of the March 18 tally were locally transmitted from the population of Jilin and the  rest were from Fujian's southeastern province including that of Guangdong's southern province.

These casualty data quickly spread and trended into the social media world as support poured for China's advocacy of a zero-COVID policy.       

*photo from ndtv.com

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CHINAS HOMEGROWN VIRUS SPURS MILLIONS IN LOCKDOWNS

Seems as if it was 2020 again in China as covid spikes terrible on the mainland.

Social and economic impact was put in compromise as the virus take new wave havoc 

on the citizenry as dozens of regions records increased infections.

Last March 14 Monday in Jilin alone one of the largest city in the northeast, some 24.1 million were put on ban

and restricted travels in and out.  

Reports on dereliction of duties were seen as causes of the outbreak as cited

at the Politburo, China's top-decision making body.

*photo from: the economic times

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5 THINGS THE PERSON YOU'RE TALKING WITH IS A FILIPINO

 

1. If he/she stutters saying:  'yung ano', 'yung kwan, uhmmm, uhhh...

There has been a study research that more than 70 million Filipinos worldwide stutters and they normally use these stutter terms:  'yung ano, yung kwan, uhmmm, uhhh.' 

2. If he/she mentions his/her fave food is adobo or lechon

Adobo was the signature dish Filipino love to eat on any occassion.  Aside from rice being the staple food, many Filipinos local and worldwide likes to eat it especially along with rice.  The dish was actually a cooking method during invented during the pre-colonial times that their ancestors used to preserve their food through marinating solutions.  In fact, the word 'adobar' during the Spanish era in the country and was later shortened to 'adobo' as time goes by. 

3. if the person says that he/she eats balut.  

Balut is one of the most popular street food in the philippines. Balut is a boiled egg containing the fertilized embryo of poultry animals especially that of a duck. 

4. that his/her favorite fruit is: unripe mango with bagoong.

If many love to pair bacon with eggs as well as burger and fries, Filipinos too have one of those popular local food pairs like in any other places on Earth.  If you happen to meet a Filipino elsewhere in the world and ask what food they miss most. You can easily  tell that they were certified Filipinos if they say they miss: hilaw na mangga with bagoong.

And if you are wondering what food it was, it was actually unripe mango fruit paired with sauteed shrimp paste. This food pair is certified to be one of the most sought after especially of Filipinos who has long been living outside the Philippines. Simply because not many country can grow and produce mangoes like the varieties found in the Philippines.  Shrimp paste made in the Philippines are hardly found or sold on groceries and stores because many its look and smell disgusting. 

5. if the person greets or address you: Kabayan!

If you encounter a person who greets saying:  Kumusta Kabayan! or Hello Fellow Filipino Citizen! You are sure the person have mistaken you to be a fellow Filipino.  Kabayan! is a way of greeting to Filipinos addressed to their fellow citizen.

So, if you happen to encounter someone and shows any or all of these signs and ways, for sure you must be talking or meeting with a Filipino or someone who was a native of the Philippines. But you need not worry meeting one, for Filipinos by nature are genuinely friendly and affectionate in making foreign friends feel at home.

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A Father's Undying Will To Find Medicine For His Dying Child

Hopeless battle.

Xu, who has only high school education and a small online entrepreneur, has scoured

the internet to seek information and possible cure to his son’s disease. He maximized

all the apps he knew in order to translate pages into Chinese and learned

pharmaceuticals by himself.  In one of his readings, he came across copper histadine

can help in his baby’s battle against his disease. But since the lockdowns and travel

restrictions imposed in connection with the  spread  of the covid 19 virus made it

severely tough for the 30-year old Xu Wei from southwestern Kunming to travel far

and wide to seek medications that can cure his two-year old baby born with the very

rare Menkes Syndrome disease.

Menkes Syndrome is a very rare genetic disorder due to the poorly distributed but very vital copper protein needed for the function and development of the bones, skin, hair, blood vessels and the nervous system.  Infants diagnosed with Menkes Syndrome are said not to live past three-years old.  It's a very rare disease affecting one in 100,000 to 250,000 of babies.  Clinical tests and trials of injecting copper supplements have only resulted in a very insignificant effect.  Pharmaceutical companies seem to have shown little interest manufacturing medications for Menkes Syndrome due its low commercial value and insignificant number of users.

Hope against all hope.

Realizing that the odds of securing the medicine was quite very low, he decided

to make the medicine himself, turning his father’s gym into a makeshift laboratory

to concoct and make medicines himself for his dying son.  But many among his

friends and family were against his ideas.

And when the concoction was ready, he tested and injected it with rabbits and

then to himself.  When he saw no adverse reactions, he then tried it gradually on

his baby. Increasing the dosage by and by. Xu knew that what he made was not

a cure but could only slow the progression of the disease at least.

The aftermath of hope.

Xu’s diligence and perseverance  have somewhat awakened significant people.

He was contacted by other parents with children of the same disease to share

his concocted medicine.  He told them that his concoction was for own home use

only and turned them down saying he can only be responsible for his own.  The

chief scientist of a biotech lab was also inspired by Xu and launches gene therapy

research for Menkes Syndrome with him.

In the near future, Xu likewise plans to take up molecular biology at a university

soon as aid for his will in protecting and saving his son. He said that he just want

hope instead of just desperately awaiting the death of his son.

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WHO ARE THESE VACCINE PEOPLE?

WHO ARE THESE VACCINE PEOPLE?

Nowadays, If you notice, people around the world are hessitant to get vaccinated despite the great effect of the covid-19 virus to the human body if one was not treated or innoculated. To them the underlying reasons were quite a major decision to make.

Almost every nation urged their citizenry to get vaccinated to avoid if not lessen the risk of getting sick with the virus and die. Health advocates tried to categorize these vaccine-hessitant people as a way of understanding their stand againt the vaccine and below reveals who these vaccine people were.

A. THE VACCINE SKEPTICS

The Vaccine Skeptics firmly believe on their conviction that it was their own personal choice that must be respected. They feel getting the covid vaccines goes against their religious faith beliefs and firmly denies their bodies not to be injected with something that are uncertain and could potentially harm the temple body entrusted to them by the Almighty God.

B. THE VACCINE OBSERVER

These keen Vaccine Observers normally observes the social norms. They have the 'follow the majority' mentality be it a fad or a protocol being followed my most. and to be sure, they are likely to follow suit after most have been vaccinated.

C. THE VACCINE COST CONCIOUS

The Vaccine Cost Concious people believes that there was a hidden cost though the vaccine were free. They believe, costs and expenses will surface later once the vaccine affects the body later and may result to an alarming expenses later. They were mostly cost concious on the effect of the vaccine to them.

D. THE VACCINE CYNICAL

The Vaccine Cynicals were those who believe that taking the vaccine is just part of a big scheme in order for people to attain unbelievable goals for the society. In order for these people to get vaccinated, reliable and transparent campaigns might let one pin the vaccines unto their muscles.

When we were young, we get vaccinated despite our shrieks and protests due to the thought of pain once the needle was pricked on us and our parents along with the health workers assisting will just give us candies or ice cream in return once we agree. As toddlers, we hardly knew what will the vaccine bring to us unless they explained it. But now as adults in the middle of this pandemic, it seems the only choice we have is to get the vaccine in order to return to our normal ways before the pandemic happened.

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