To put things into perspective, senator and former police chief Bato dela Rosa joyfully said "Sarap ng buhay! Sarap ng buhay!" on the very day Kian Loyd delos Santos was supposed to be celebrating his 20th birthday if he was not brutally killed by the police.

On the day Kian Loyd delos Santos was supposed to celebrate his birthday, police chief Archie Gamboa said the drug war "will continue without let-up and will be unrelenting as ever" amid the COVID-19 pandemic and various documented cases of police brutality under the lockdown.

Thousands of drug war victims can no longer celebrate their birthdays while Debold Sinas, who spearheaded drug war killings as the former Central Visayas police chief, can blatantly break the law to throw a birthday "mañanita" and get away with it unpunished.

Life is surely sweet for the lapdogs of this murderous and fascist regime while thousands of Filipinos suffer from brutal forms of state violence, overwhelming lack of access to public health and social services, and worsening poverty and mass hunger.