The Boracaynon

By Gil delos Santos In response to the public's reaction on DOT's intention to accept tourists from countries with low covid cases Few weeks ago, I have personally declared disagreement to the Province of Aklan's early move to open Boracay for Western Visayas tourists with obvious reason fearing for the virus infection.  Today is a different story. In fairness to the good DOT secretary, we need to get the economy ball rolling. We cannot wait for the uncertain time for the vaccine before we start dribbling again. People's livelihood has to live again so the economy could kick off slowly. We cannot do that with borders sealed off. That's why there is a "new normal". We just need to adopt and comply. We all die in time. Know how to protect yourself, that's all we need to do. There's a lot other contagious and deadly diseases out there that claim more lives everyday. Why live in fear? Life is short, shorter than you know it esp when you die...

By Gil delos Santos Is Western Visayas covid free yet?  I haven't seen a published guideline on how to accept WV tourist yet but I can assume that our government cannot afford to hold and have every single guest tested, wait for the result before they could be allowed in the island in realtime. This is the only measure I see that could work to avoid virus infection spread out in response to opening Boracay at this stage of the pandemic.  Learn the lesson of the "Balik Probinsya" Program. Let's not copy the "Balik Probinsya, hatid covid" junk. The intention was good but the measures are inefficiently carried out. We understand that the economy has to somehow kick off. My bills even remain unpaid because my livelihood depends on tourism but I don't want to trade that at this point in time with Boracay opening on the 16th. The economy will die harder once infection starts or restarts in the island. It will trigger spread out to delay flattening ...