Wrong move to right

People have been calling and messaging me  this past days as if I’m a valid source of news or gossip do that matter.. I do love gossip especially when it’s about celebs and I sometimes do get affected by it (like  when Miley and Liam separated, again for the nth time) I would tell it to my boyfriend as if they’re like people amongst my own. Like I know them on a personal level. My boyfriend would always say that, you don’t know the real reason and you don’t know Maybe  they’re really horrible people in real life. That just him not really oblivious about celebrities but  also  don’t like them. He has a way of persuading you and making you look at the other side of them sometimes I teased him about being such a hater. He would know about how Oprah was good friends with Harvey Weinstein, How Ellen is a Democrat supporter or that Mother Theresa was not all that saintly or that he doesn’t like the royals and he hated Trump especially.  (Well  hating Trump is not debatable) but that just him and his biases and his opinions which were based on facts he said.  While me being always  wanting to be on the know basis about issues whether it be sometimes political, events and  knowing for more on the entertainment value. I boast my self at work about knowing the latest celebrity  gossips by following some entertainment bloggers here or abroad. My workmates tease me being Manay Lolit . But just to be fair and to be on the safe side I don’t discuss politics or maybe religion because it can get very tricky sometimes. However having been educated at  UP (State university) the influence  of a liberal education is always at the core. You knowing the issue, making a stand, talk when you are asked about your opinions without necessarily pushing it on anyone’s throat. And always have that open mindedness and critical thinking . 

Anyways the reason why some people were messaging me was that in my city a certain VIP was able to fly in via a chartered chopper from Manila and turning out Covid positive.  Flying in via private plane because commercial

flights were all banned. So most flights that contains medical PPEs and transports medical people are military planes. My brother is with the PAF and I once ask him if he could transport my best friend from Manila to Cebu because of the lock down extension she needs to be at home with her family. My brother said it’s not anymore permitted to fly out civilians in military planes. 

 So it was later revealed in the news anyway that this person is a high ranking management  officer of Globe Telecom, the company I worked for.  She is an Ilonga, has been our boss in the store and risen from ranks to become one of the top executives of the company.  I am very much in awe of Miss Tans as we call  her because she has been a UP professor then became a store head in a Globe store in Iloilo before becoming a top executive of Globe based in Manila. I think she is one smart, feisty Ilonga.. (praying for her full recovery soonest). 

 I was hush hush because even if  I was privy to the fact that our boss needs to come home because her mother died and she is the only daughter she needs to be home for her funeral, I did not have the proper details of the incident and also because of some privacy issues . So at first some friends were asking if indeed it was true, I couldn’t comment but eventually I said yes it’s in the news.  Globe chartered that flight and in that flight carried some test kits to be used in Iloilo.  I couldn’t emphasize how amazing our company has been in this crisis of course. (Supporting employees,  partners and subsidiaries,    Substantial donations to fight Covid 19)  

The news link : https://dailyguardian.com.ph/special-treatment-two-new-covid-19-cases-in-iloilo-bacolod-cities/

According to the news, protocol was followed  upon knowing Miss Tania was positive and proper handling was done at the airport. The crew  on this flight tested negative and that she is as-symptomatic and at home quarantine . 

 Even so people were reacting negatively how the mayor was giving VIP treatment because  the father of the patient is one of his Legal counsel and that he denied entry of OFWs wanting to go home to the city when they were stranded for weeks now in Manila . Some people joked how Iloilo is not anymore #wakandaforever because of this slight oversight. Along with the premature lifting of the liquor ban a day before. 

He was actually quick to admit slightly dimmed foresight  on that one and declaring liquor ban again after a day or two. 

 Nevertheless, Iloilo was still a model how the city has responded to the crisis. How the city mayor was lauded and how the people of Iloilo were good at cooperating with the governments effort. There was an evident  public and private sector cooperation. Hence they say Iloilo is another country of its own where there was less support from the national government yet was able to stand on its own hence  - Wakanda 

https://news.abs-cbn.com/ancx/culture/spotlight/04/03/20/in-iloilo-city-frontliners-are-first-priority

My best friend Congresswoman, Jam Baronda of the lone district of Iloilo has been working with OWWA and other government agencies to help these distressed OFWs stranded in Manila.  someone who seek my help in including their  OFW relatives knowing I was a close  confidant of Jams. I coordinated with Jams staff and they were included on that list. However, this was placed on hold  because there was an incident prior where some OFW tested positive for Covid upon arrival in the city. And Mayor Jerry Trenas has to hold the plans of bringing them to Iloilo. 

And now since Ms Tans being declared the #7 Covid positive in the city, Mayor Jerry soften his stand on bringing back the stranded OFW following proper protocol of course. I was just texting Jam a while back about the Mayors decision. Maybe everything just works for the best. And hopefully I’ll see my kababayan or Kasimanwa being with their families soon.