Aren’t they sweet!?
PH Senator Koko Pimentel and Ma Kathryna Yu were married on 18 October 2018. Why the date? Ricky Lo interviewed both on 18 September 2018, learned that 18 October 2013 was extra-special, as Kath said[1]:
We had dinner with friends. And although we were in the company of other people, I think we made a “connection” there and then.
How romantic can you get?!
Sen Koko then introduced Kath to his 2 boys in a previous marriage: Martin and Akio. Koko said:
We just spent time with the boys and they immediately clicked with her… I am so lucky to have found a willing and loving mama for the boys. I am also so happy for the boys that now they have a mama.
How endearing can you get?!
Today, ANN[2] says, the Makati Medical Center, MMC, “denounced Pimentel's actions for going to the hospital's delivery complex, saying the senator exposed health workers to possible infection[3]” (20 March 2020, ABS-CBN News).
How insulting can you get?!
MMC, for God’s sake! Sen Koko accompanied wife Kath because she was going to deliver their child and, not young anymore, there may be some kind of emergency he had to decide on immediately. Why do you denounce a husband for loving his wife that much?!
Really, we have gone coco over Koko Pimentel, because we have gone loco over coronavirus!
In my previous essay, “Covid-19 Considered, Let The People Go! – Jun AV Revilla[4],” I agreed with Jun: “Du30, let my people go!” that the coronavirus lockdown is insane, foolhardy, oppressive.
Mike Ryan, Executive Director of the World Health Organization, says that countries cannot simply lock down their societies to defeat coronavirus[5] (Reuters, 22 March 2020):
What we really need to focus on is finding those who are sick, those who have the virus, and isolate them, find their contacts and isolate them. ¶ The danger right now with the lockdowns ... if we don't put in place the strong public health measures now, when those movement restrictions and lockdowns are lifted, the danger is the disease will jump back up
Really, any lockdown is disaster socially and economically. Why are you so deathly afraid of being infected with the coronavirus?! Look at the latest comparative statistics (19 February 2020, World Economic Forum[6]):
For every 50 people who were infected:
MERS killed 17. Seventeen!
SARS killed 5. Five!
Covid-19 killed 1. One!
MERS killed 17. Seventeen!
SARS killed 5. Five!
Covid-19 killed 1. One!
Hah! Medicine is logic:
I am your doctor, I tell you what to do and what not to do. Follow my instructions or else! You visit my hospital, you follow the protocols – or I’ll crucify you.
Instead of damning a husband who brought his pregnant wife to deliver their/her first child when she was already 37 years old, this should be a wake-up call for our leaders to let our people go and mind just the health threat.
Otherwise, what is happening is a lockdown on our logic and our compassion (yes!).@517
[1] https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2018/09/19/1852609/senator-his-lady
[2] Author Not Named
[3] https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/03/26/20/koko-pimentel-denies-violating-coronavirus-quarantine-covid-19
[4] https://frankhtheblogfather.blogspot.com/2020/03/covid-19-considered-let-people-go-jun.html
[5] https://ph.news.yahoo.com/lockdowns-not-enough-defeat-coronavirus-095822951.html
[6] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/02/comparing-outbreaks-coronavirus-mers-sars-health-epidemic
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