Look Homeward, Angel Locsin!

Why is Angel Locsin, Filipina movie superstar, looking up? Let’s see what she sees!

Lily Grace Tabanera writes in Cosmo.ph 19 May 2020, “Angel Locsin Is Raising Funds To Help With Mass Testing In The PH[1]:”

Real-life (Wonder Woman) Angel Locsin is going non-stop! In April, Angel set up the #UniTentWeStandPH campaign to provide more than 28 hospitals with specialized tents for their Covid-19 patients, raising almost P11 million. This time, she has a new goal: to purchase test kits and help poorer sectors get tested.

Ms Angel is “pushing the TEST-TRACE-ISOLATE/TREAT formula… the only proven way to defeat the virus.”

Let us grant, Ms Angel, using the 4T Formula, in the Philippines, you are talking of 109,500,000 warm bodies[2] – as of midnight today, Tuesday, 19 May 2020 – so, how are you going to apply 4T to the millions?! It’s crazy! If you targeted only 20%, that would still be 21,900,000 (million), so I can see you will never finish. It’s insane!

Earlier, 18 May 2020, President Rodrigo Duterte’s spokesman Harry Roque said, “Mass testing only possible in an ‘ideal world’; PH resources limited[3]” quoted by John Ezekiel J Hirro (PressONE.ph). I agree! “Test kits were hard to acquire, as other countries such as mass-producer China and the United States were prioritizing the use of testing kits on their citizens.”

Above everything: Diagnostic testing is not fail-safe!

Jennifer MacLachlan writes, “The Positives And Negatives Of Mass Testing For Coronavirus[4]” (15 May 2020, The Conversation):

Among the shortfalls of diagnostic testing is the possibility of false negatives (failing to detect a condition when it’s present) and false positives (detecting a condition when it’s absent).

And when you are done testing 20 million – when will that be?! – you are going to repeat the process with the same people because of false positives and false negatives!

But I am not one to surrender. "But above all the din, came the cry no surrender. ‘Twas the voice of James Connolly, the Irish rebel[5].” My rebel “No surrender” cry is this:

Treat The Threat Thru
Good Food Vs Bad Vibes!

“Eating For Everyday Wellness[6],” says WebMD. For everyday, you need good food.

I say: Good food is the simple, non-threatening, non-chemically laden, non-pesticide-bathed, non-exclusive eatables to achieve health. Ergo:

Good Agriculture, Better Food, Best Bodies!

Look homeward, Angel Locsin, visit your kitchen and cook yourself a good meal!

Meanwhile, let us dine on these food for thought, from the Web:

Good food is all the sweeter when shared with good friends.
Nothing brings people together like good food.

“You don’t need a silver fork to eat good food!” – Paul Prudhomme

“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” – Virginia Woolf.

“One of the very nicest things about life is the way we must regularly stop whatever we are doing and devote our attention to eating.” – Luciano Pavarotti.

What makes food tastes good?
“The secret ingredient is always love.” – Dreamstime.@517

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[1]https://www.cosmo.ph/entertainment/angel-locsin-shop-and-share-mass-testing-initiative-a2520-20200519?utm_source=Facebook-Cosmo&utm_medium=Ownshare&utm_campaign=20200519-fbnp-entertainment-angel-locsin-shop-and-share-mass-testing-initiative-a2520-20200519-fbfirst&fbclid=IwAR2Ypp9cbkFfVE744tFljGVM1DWug32prTdLkzKfNHuVSEd2UvHzk6flY5M

[2]ttps://www.worldometers.info/world-population/philippines-population/

[3]https://pressone.ph/mass-testing-only-possible-in-an-ideal-world-ph-resources-limited-roque/

[4]https://theconversation.com/the-positives-and-negatives-of-mass-testing-for-coronavirus-137792

[5]https://www.facebook.com/GlasgowRepublic/photos/a.307291062975191/411128679258095/?type=1&theater

[6]https://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/features/eating-everyday-wellness#1