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I think the reasoning is quite simple: we are in the same region as Cebu. Had the Negros Region been established years ago when it was approved by the previous administration we would not have been lumped under the same rules as the next island over. IMO it has nothing to do with power, it is laziness and an inability/unwillingness to have a more nuanced plan of action for individual provinces and/or for the local "leadership" to contest Malacanang's advice.

 

Giving this a go. I found some yeast at the market in Valencia. (Pronouncing "yeast" as it is actually pronounced only leads to confusion and "deer in the headlights" looks. Locals call it "yes't".) I am assuming this is bread/baker's yeast and not beer/wine yeast. It costs P5 per packet which I guesstimate is good for about 50 liters. I am also guessing the yeast will die off around 10-15% alcohol content from what I have seen in YouTube videos.

My first two attempts are with 1 liter of 100% coconut water and pineapple juice, adding 1 cup of white sugar and half a teaspoon of the yeast to each mix. I will let them sit for a week and test, if they aren't strong enough I will give it another week. So far after just one day I am getting a strong alcohol smell out of both bottles. Seems promising and I plan on experimenting more as I find more juice, but so far I have only found the pineapple and coconut juice. I may try the 4 seasons juice box if I am unable to find anything else locally as it seems that the only thing that matters is the sugar to yeast ratio. The rest seems to be only for flavor (so long as there aren't any additional ingredients or preservatives added to the juice.)

 

I would have people blasted with "UV or just a very powerful light" and "bring the light inside the body which you can do through the skin or, err, in some other way". "And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in a minute" (because "the way it kills it in one minute, that's pretty powerful"). I would do "something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number of along so it'd be interesting to check that so that you're going to have to use medical doctors with but it sounds interesting to me so we'll see"

You know, because I have Article 2, a very powerful thing, it gives the president powers you wouldn't believe, like being a very stable genius. If you disagree, you are a fake and spread fake news.

 

91 people out of how many? Did they have weakened immune systems? Preexisting conditions? Were their symptoms worse or asymptomatic? Questions that should be answered before the media tries to scare the sh*t out of people making the situation worse.

 

Sorry to be negative but it seems more like a personal wish list that benefits the foreigner much more so than the citizens of the Philippines. Foreigners, generally, just don't bring that much to the table in developing countries. Foreigners in developing countries are, generally, from lower socioeconomic statuses that could barely survive in their own country (which is why most decided to move to a country that has a much lower cost of living). If anything, visas and long term stays should be made much more difficult to obtain.

To "make huge turns in the Philippines economic machine" they need to focus more on their own people, not foreigners. Better education, healthcare, social and economic safety nets, cracking down on corruption and greed, competent government, better tax collection, etc. Sure, bring in foreign experts to share their knowledge and expertise in a university environment...but personally, I have met only a hand full of these types in my 15+ years in the Philippines.

Foreigners are not and will never be the solution to the Philippines woes.