Do you have a source to verify that no one above 60 is still working either here or in any other country... ?? and if you look at my other post you will see that young people are now filling up the ICU beds in US .... so this tired old explanation of keeping some of the population at home is weak at best especially since the "young and the maskless" (pardon the pun) are the ones spreading the virus ...
Did you forget you are in the Philippines? The young and the maskless are in the US along with oppositional defiant seniors. (a few of which are here.) Here in the Philippines the rate of infection is much lower. Obviously keeping seniors at home is helping.
We seniors are probably small contributors to the PI economy. I don’t know the numbers but say if (1 million) OFWs send home ($10,000) annually certainly is greater than our contribution, as I imagine tourism is when they can reopen. Small fish in a big pond, and can only hurt the economy if we tie up hospital beds. No senior citizen discounts for us is an indicator of our status.
Nobody is tieing up hospital beds. The ease by which we can get visas to stay here is definitely an indicator of our status at the federal level; senior discounts are intended to ease cost burdens on Fiipino elderly. No Foreigner living here needs such a discount. If the did, they are in the wrong country.
I disagree with about everything you say (or seem to support) but I will mention that the Philippines is not like the temperate climates you are familiar with; we don't have a fall flu season here.
I agree that they don't care about the foreigners but I think they do really care about their lolo's and lola's and it is part of their culture to takes extra steps to watch out for them. The expats just got caught up in that and it woud probably be to complicated to make an exception. I wish they would.
Are there other situations, of a serious nature, where foreigners are granted special privileges? If not, then I think citizens would resent being treated differently and that may be a bad thing for we aliens
Not a special priviledge, it would simply be a refinement of a rule based upon local culture, expanding it to consider the special needs of foreign guests. It is logical to keep elderly locals inside because they have entire family support structures to care for them. They have no need to venture outside; the foreign guests are in a completely different situation, thus a justification for a waiver. I don't look upon any of this as "priviledge"; it is all just giving people a reasonable means to live through this crisis.
