Topic: Philippines will drop as a Country, Economy on its worst! (Read 787 times)

I also hope that happens. I can't forget how President Rodrigo Duterte hates the corruption happening inside the government and promised that he will be stopping that once and for all. We can't actually tell the progress of that promise but all we know is that most of those corrupt officials are slowly being presented to the people, hope we end corruption at the end of his term since it is his vow.

The most popular biggest corruption happening right now and I'm glad that they are on hot rod and I think those corrupt officials will be punished by now but I think there's lacking, this corruption will not be done if there's no approval made by the past administration. I hope all of them will get jailed to serve as warning to other corrupt officials.

In the Philippines today, the situation is very difficult, since the economic crisis does not make it possible to save the economy, besides, the coronavirus only aggravates the situation. In addition, as for evil, nature makes its own adjustments, because only in August there were several strong enough earthquakes in the Philippines, which has serious consequences, and the media also reports that there were two large-scale terrorist attacks in different parts of the Philippines. It seems to me that it is very difficult for the government to maintain control in the current situation.

Let's be real though, there are bigger corruption happening and we don't know it even know how big that is. Philhealth may be the most popular right now but I think there are some too that maybe people are afraid to say, that they are so afraid to blow that whistle since it might not just blow the government up but also their heads.

I'm not affected by the Philhealth issue since I'm not a contributor of it but I know the feeling of those many people who are working hard and their salary is being deducted every month or twice a month by this contributions. There are some of my relatives who are affected with this incident but like most of the contributors, they have nothing else to do but to accept it since they don't have the power.

Death Penalty is being pushed by some senators in our country just to stop this corruptions but I doubt that it will happen because for sure the Human Rights Group (for me a shit groups) will oppose on it again. I hate to say this but our country is doomed with different events that are happening.

COVID19, Philhealth Issue, the recent bombings and here is the opposition team just saying numerous shitty words to the President. Instead of helping him, they are opposing to every decisions of the government. What can I do but to remain silent since I don't have the power. Ranting in social media?? Just a waste of time .

The Philhealth issue is one big corruption news right now, imagine billions of pesos are wasted, because of the wrong system of implementation
it's heartless to rob a government agency in this time of pandemic, those involved should be prosecuted the head of the health sector the secretary should resigned out of decency but he's hanging on like a leech.

I am confident and optimistic that this pandemic will make a our country strong and will recover  from drought to a healthy economy soon when vaccine is available next year. I hate politics but only all politicians will unite and act to support the current administration's plans during the crisis, we would have already won the fight of this pandemic. Even this times of pandemic, still politicians thinking about politics all the time that's why we have a slow progress of recovering our economy status. If only we can unite as one, we can heal as one too by putting asides the differences to fight this crisis once in for all.

People in power are always corrupt. I think the government situation is the same in every country, there are always people that are not being favoured by the government in power. We can take the US as an example, when Obama was the president there were people who never liked him, and then Trump got in, and now it seems more people even don’t like Trump being the president because he seems to be the worst.

Same thing with my country, in fact I will say that my country is the worst because unlike the Philippines you have mentioned, ours is still a developing country and people don’t have nothing to say, the government do as they please, the best people can do is pray that things gets better, but that never happens, instead it keeps getting worse every day.

The USA has better medical care system but their insurance procedure is kind of complicated and a long process which is he main reason for this infection spreads like a wildfire then only government realized that it is important to quarantine the affected ones in the early stages to stop the community spread but that time everything got out of their hand and still they are trying to control it.

there is very little difference with what is happening there in US and in the Philippines. US is even worse.
you wouldn't even think there is pandemic in the country except if you listen to the news which normally just flash the bad news. turn your tv off and just watch youtube originals or netflix series up to its latest season and you are good to have a fine life all throughout the week.

but I also wonder why in a developed country like USA can have the most cases in the world considering America is a very strong power country of course, the medical facilities and treatment should be good, but this seems to doubt that they are a developed country, with as many cases whether the role of the government there is not optimal or is there a special reason behind the many cases in the country.

There is no difference with developed and developing countries when it comes to the pandemic, USA one of the most developed country is also ranging in the top of number of people got infected but the difference comes in the recovery phase if it is developed country and overwhelming with wealth then they can spend lot money for that process which may be lacking in the developing countries.

No questions asked, the national government of the Philippines is not really handling the pandemic well. Incompetent is even an understatement.

There are funds allocated for covid response during this pandemic. Billions of budget has been released from the very beginning of this crisis. Everyone should be given a relief in the first place. There should be no excuse that Manila is densely populated since there are BILLIONS of budget we are talking about here.

We’re now trapped in debt yet many fellow filipinos haven’t received their cash aid yet. Many jeepyney and tricycle drivers were not given SAP because they’re not listed. When in fact the government borrowed lots of money for battling the pandemic. They even made an Act Bayahinahan Heal as One yet nothing really improved.

 Our situation has gotten worse each day. More and more covid cases, false statistics displayed on news, Philhealth corruption in the middle of pandemic. Now tell me, is central government really doing just fine???

Back during the early days of 2020, it was recommended by people and other officials to close the border yet they didn’t listen. Look what happened to us now. They have failed big time, especially the DOH secretary for not doing what he’s supposed to do.

Also, you mentioned that the palace has a documentation of the tranche they passed down to the LGU’s, but what about those of distributed per department? They didn’t even published a single liquidation report where a detailed list of where the money went. All they gave to public is the estimated sum of money spent. No details.

Now, let’s not compare Philippines to New Zealand. Why should we look far when we could compare it to our neighboring country, Vietnam? Vietnam has been able to contain the covid-19 and their economy bounced back quickly.

If you would search on the Internet, Vietnam and Philippines have almost the same land area and population which makes it a better comparison than to New Zealand.  Despite of having densely populated country like ours, they were able to prevent local transmission because of good governance and strategies. That sadly, we don’t have.

We could have handled the pandemic better if only there’s a strategic planning and contact tracing  since we could take advantage of our land positioning which is spread in different islands. Yet, covid-19 was still able to reach the provinces outside manila.

Being able to borrow large amount of money isn’t a good news either since it would take years to pay from our taxes and will have an interest for sure. We shouldn’t be just contented from what our leaders are doing. We should DEMAND a quality service from them. After all, our taxes pay them to do their responsibilities. We should always hold them accountable and not tolerate their mistakes so that our economy would soon boost and recover.

at least in developed countries the development and prevention of this epidemic will be easier than developing, because the production of infrastructure, and others are already developed from developing countries, the unemployment rate is low, corruption may be only a little, and it is inversely proportional to developing countries.

Our frontliners are very tired now and some are afraid to return to work due to the threat of COVID-19. Cases are increasing rapidly in the Philippines (mostly in NCR). The government doesn’t have funds anymore for the full lockdown, and the president himself admitted it.

I hate to say this but despite that I love the Philippines, I didn’t like the national and local government at all (especially in handling COVID-19 safety protocols). They took advantage of the COVID-19 situation to pocket millions of funds for themselves and not for the greater good of the Filipinos (like what happened in PhilHealth lately as some officials admitted pocketing some funds there and were suspended for 6 months without pay).

I have read an article somewhere on my Facebook timeline that says that he regretted being born a Filipino. Not because of the country and the people, but the government is what he referred that he cannot tolerate or “can’t take it anymore”. There are mixed reactions of his article, and some of them said that he’s free to leave and denounce his Filipino citizenship when the pandemic is over. Others would say that he has a “clear point”.

We’re very sick and tired in going out with face masks, shields (maybe PPEs would be mandatory next month or so, call me crazy lol), curfews, border controls, limited movement, etc. I’m tired of these rules, but it is what the government wants and we have no choice but to cooperate until a vaccine is available.

I’m even planning to apply a dual citizenship for a certain country later on (maybe Singapore, Australia or a European country). I’m proud of who I am and I embrace it, but not the current local and national government that we have right now. Philippines is such a beautiful place with 7k+ islands, and so many tourist attractions as well. God I missed traveling! 

The story is not only about the Philippines, many countries are experiencing the worst times in the history and that up to the governments to deal with it. After the Covid-19 crisis we saw a wave of economic crisis but the fear and the greed inside people (FUD) made things worst than everyone could imagine. In any country the government should manage the economics and crisis related to it. In my own idea, using the blockchain technology and crypto  currencies the economies can be save, That's the key. 

I really don't understand why government of the Philippines is not strictly in the implementation of quarantine in order to prevent spread of covid virus. They said because of economic situation of the country. We can see ,everyday the number of covid positive increasing and i don't know when it will decrease. So it means economic status of the country is much important than to the life of the people there.Very sad because life of every Filipino getting worst everyday. Also people there are very stubborn and i think they are not afraid of virus. Before covid pandemic end,the population of the Philippines will getting smaller.

Not possible especially on how negative the Filipinos are when thinking about Federalism. Most of the oldies are way to traumatized and can't moved on, and some of the young people are too aggressive and just spewing non-sense all the time.
So it's a No-No for us here in the Philippines, People here has been born dumb and will die dumb,they don't bother to learn. LoL I'm really sick of this country. I wish I could just Fly into other places like Canada or Japan.

The situation in the Philippines is much worse because of the epidemic. Citizens of the Philippines are living in crisis due to the weak government system here. Political leaders are interfering in everything If the government takes the right steps it will be possible to respond to the epidemic very easily. We have to try to prevent corruption in every sector including healthcare. Only a government of good governance can alleviate the plight of its citizens in the Philippines.

I am also a Filipino citizen and I can also say that we have the worst response to the occurring pandemic. The response should be fast and should mitigate the spread of the Corona Virus. Sadly, the response of the government ended in corruption and debt. There are news currently circulating that the whole Healthcare Department have been accused of theft since people lost their money even though they are not using it. Its also saddening that the response of the government is not helping the people and they are also blaming the Filipino people of being stubborn and can't follow simple rules. The Filipinos are starving and that is why they are creating their own decisions to feed their selves because they know that they cannot ask for more to the government since they are always saying that there are no more money. I just hope that our economic status won't fall any deeper since it would really be hard to come back from that.