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A tale of 2 Covids

Wednesday, 13 May 2020 03:29 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

IN times of great peril, nations collectively behave in many ways, principally influenced by the resilience of their people, the strength of their institutions, the efficiency of their systems of governance and, above all, the demeanor of their leadership. This…

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The new normal — where are we at?

Wednesday, 06 May 2020 04:38 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

THE world today is undergoing cataclysmic changes, whose ramifications we may not comprehend fully well into the next generations. What we glimpse now of our future are simply vignettes seen through the prism of current realities, already distorted these past…

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Alternative aftermaths: Part 2 — Economic recovery and the second wave

Wednesday, 29 April 2020 04:52 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

Part 2 — Economic recovery and the second wave CENTRAL to a global economic recovery are two predicates: the taming of the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) as a “sine qua non” and a seamless measured lifting of the quarantine to…

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Alternative aftermaths

Wednesday, 22 April 2020 15:34 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

Part 1 Covid-19 and lockdowns THE movie “I Am Legend” comes to mind as one of the alternative “end of times” scenarios. I quote its synopsis: “Years after a plague kills most of humanity and transforms the rest into monsters,…

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Before the aftermath and the rise of a hegemon

Wednesday, 15 April 2020 09:59 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

GOING by all the publications, dialectics and analyses by doomsayers in social media, the pronouncements of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, this column, predictive in one sense, should logically be written only…

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China denies donating COVID-19 test kits yielding ‘inaccurate’ results

‘I see dead people’ — the China syndrome

Wednesday, 08 April 2020 08:09 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

IN this penultimate week of the quarantine, I am more than convinced that the Deegong did the right thing. But it may have to be extended* until “the curve is flattened.” Bureaucratic incompetence caught our government flat-footed — given that…

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Covid-19 conspiracy theories

Wednesday, 01 April 2020 08:04 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

The lockdown, enhanced community quarantine (ECQ) or similar appropriate euphemisms is a correct attempt to contain a deadly pandemic. Other countries are implementing this with varying degrees of success. My medium-sized family with three grandkids (aged 8, 6 and 4),…

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Lockdown, religion, Quiboloy — con artist or God’s chosen

Wednesday, 25 March 2020 11:43 Written by LITO MONICO C. LORENZANA

IN times of great peril, man turns to his deity or the unknown for his survival. This is how religion evolved over the millennia: The primordial longing to be extricated from whatever difficulties he is faced with. This is, perhaps,…

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