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THREAD: President Rodrigo Duterte's address to the nation
DOH Sec. Francisco Duque III giving update on COVID_19 situationer. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duque assures that healthcare workers to receive high quality PPEs. | @JMAurelioINQ https://bit.ly/3i5C4rD
Duque reports to Duterte that healthcare workers are asking for a "time-out" in the form of ECQ. | @JMAurelioINQ https://bit.ly/3i5C4rD
Duque says healthcare workers willing to find middle ground and balance health and economy. | @JMAurelioINQ https://bit.ly/3i5C4rD
Duque reiterates points of concern of healthcare workers on testing, contact tracing, safe transportation options for health workers. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duque quotes healthcare workers as saying that public is first line of defense. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duque says medical frontliners object to opening of non essential industries like gyms, personal grooming etc. | @JMAurelioINQ https://bit.ly/3i5C4rD
Duque says Cabinet officials, IATF drafted 7-point recommendations. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duque cites recommendations: hiring of more healthcare workers and deployment of health workers in private hospitals; and more benefits such as risk allowance and life insurance, free accommodation and transportation, frequent testing. | @JMAurelioINQ
Gov't recommended implementation of work and quarantine passes, continued implementation of Oplan Kalinga, strict enforcement of health standards, distribution of face masks and use of RT PCR testing. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duque says Cabinet recommended reverting to MECQ for 15 days starting tomorrow, says recommendations for President's recommendation. | @JMAurelioINQ https://bit.ly/3i5C4rD
Duterte tells Duque he failed to grasp last item: You are recommending MECQ?
Duque: MECQ in Metro Manila, Bulacan, Laguna, Rizal. | @JMAurelioINQ https://bit.ly/3i5C4rD
Duque: MECQ in Metro Manila, Bulacan, Laguna, Rizal. | @JMAurelioINQ https://bit.ly/3i5C4rD
Duterte, addressing NPA rebels re: vaccine offer: Everytime I open my mouth, it automatically becomes policy. If NPA wants their shots free, they can always line up. Pag nakapila sila dun, walang armas, give it to them. After that, if you go home, we fight again. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte says he wants his police, military to be very healthy: I want them to get the very first shots once we get the vaccine. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: I have requested officially kay Omb. Martires, I am not asking for the neck of the innocents. I just want graft and corruption stopped and the parties prosecuted, be it the mayor, the city council. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: For the city councils now who are delaying the passing of the ordinance, I am telling Sec. Ano, two years the paper is pending, it is graft and corruption. Kayong municipal, city, provincial board, pag hindi ninyo nilabas yan beginning today. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: I am giving you three days. Report to the DILG, ibigay mo dun and for DILG to inform Sec. Ano na submitted na. The clock is ticking, I'll count the 72 hours, it should be Thursday. If you fail to do that, I am directing fiscal Yang to file the case. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: I prefer that you be dismissed immediately. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: I want to taste your agony, your humiliation because you are a criminal. I will demand your resignation if it really calls for it. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: Barangay captains, stop acting like God in your barangay. Youu are just a human being. I am sure you know little about governance. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: You do not deserve to stay in the government a minute longer. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: They are right, itong health workers who would be in the hospitals. Alam ko ho, if they are listening now, ganito ho ang the following moves that government has decided. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: We agree that you are bone weary. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte to corrupt officials: I (will) see to it that you are effectively suspended as form of punishment. I would prefer that you would be dismissed immediately, courts are not to interfere. | @CMarquezINQ
Duterte: You can rest assure that there will be no corruption here. Uupakan ko kayo. | @JMAurelioINQ https://bit.ly/3i5C4rD
Duterte: Regarding the benefits, we also strongly recommend insurance, free accommodation, free transportation, free and frequent testing. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: What I said in the early days, I said that you know, be careful because it is swallowing the rest of the world. Dito sa Cebu pati Maynila, almost same behavior. May mga tao talagang nasa labas. | @JMAurelioINQ https://bit.ly/3i5C4rD
Duterte: If Sec. Duque misquoted or was not accurate sa kanyang figures, para sa akin, matulala ka sa figures because they come in incomplete, sometimes wrong, sometimes symptomatic, sometimes nakauwi na. | @JMAurelioINQ https://bit.ly/3i5C4rD
Duterte asks Duque if figures are changing. Duque replies that "it is a changing number" and cites IATF resolution on time based reckoning of recovery of mild, asymptomatic cases. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: Yung mga Left, if you want to protest, go ahead. I myself will sign the permit... Protest to the high heavens. But as long as you are not part of government, worse you pretend to be an adviser, you tweet, God help this country. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte asks critics: What's the best solution for COVID-19? | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: What can we do? Magbigay ng pera? Wala na tayong pera. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: Kayong mga animal kayo, kung bright kayo sana, kayo nakaupo dito at nagawa nyo ang gusto niyo... Do not be a double standard idiot. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: We need the input of other doctors who might have training outside of this matter, tropical diseases, infectious diseases. Kung wala kayong maibigay, it's not our fault we are lagging behind. We do not have the equipment, we do not have anything. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: Nobody expected that thousands will get sick on a single day. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: Maski magtayo ako ng 10 hospitals, kunin ko yung hotels, iexpropriate ko. Eh kung 100,000... But I will do that. I will expropriate hotels kung wala na talagang space. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: Itong bakuna ibigay ko sa police at military. | @JMAurelioINQ https://bit.ly/3i5C4rD
Duterte says he wants vaccination to be done at police stations. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: Ngayon magsabi kayo, ilockdown mo na ang Maynila para wala nang mahawa. Problem is wala na tayong pera. I cannot give food anymore to money and people. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: Mga barangay captains, it's time that you really work. Isauli mo sa tao yung honor na binigay nila sa inyo. You work, strictly enforce yung quarantine. | @JMAurelioINQ
NTF COVID-19 chief implementer Carlito Galvez Jr. says health workers on brink of emotional breakdown because of discrimination in terms of benefits. He suggests P 10,000 aid for those who will get sick. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte agrees: I agree with you, even P15,000. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: To our health workers, this is a war that you have been trained to fight. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: Sino ang maasahan natin na gagawa ng trabaho na ito. Huwag kayo mawalan ng pag-asa... You stretch your patience and your fervor na ikaw ay isang medical na tao. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: We are aware that you are tired, that you have worked beyond 24 hours a day. Wala kaming matakbuhan. Kayo yung nag aral. Kayo ang may alam. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: Huwag naman ganun (to stop to work). | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: We are doing everything to alleviate the situation and enhance the healthcare system. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: There is no need for you telling us what to do publicly. You could just have wrote us a letter. Lahat ng sinasabi niyo, sinusunod namin. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: Next time you can just ask for an audience, pero huwag kayong mag sigaw sigaw, revolution. Alam ninyo, magsabi kayo revolution, then ngayon na. Go ahead. Sirain natin, patayin natin lahat ng may COVID. Is that what you want? | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: I am not threatening you, pero gusto ko lang subukan nyo. I dare you, do it. At magkita tayo kung... Those who want to work with government, pumasok kayo sa pulis kasi malaki ang sweldo. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: All nurses sa uniformed sector will have to work and we can always ask for volunteers. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: We are not incompetent here, we are not doctors. Kayo ang doctor. Kayo ang makatulong sana. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: Bone weary is an idiom. You're too tired to move. Bakit hindi kayo pumunta dito. Pera? Hanap tayo ng pera. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: Do not try to demean government. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte says health workers should be tested every two days. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte says he will point to his daughter Sara as one of those who will answer call to action for reservists. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: I can ask for soldiers to work 28 hours a day. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: We are not actually inutile. Next time, as a matter of courtesy, not to me, I don't need it. But to the government, next time huwag nyo ako parinigan ng rebolusyon. Yan ang mas delikado sa COVID. You give me a free ticket for counter-revolution. | @JMAurelioINQ
Duterte: Kindly stay home kung hindi naman importante. | @JMAurelioINQ
