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Thanks SS. What an awful toll to be a leader of. Dreadful indeed.

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In terms of the deaths by region, is there any vaxxine rate data per region - if so, is there any correlation?

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Hi Gary. I haven't found the vaccine uptake by region. I will try to find this in coming days.

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Feb 26, 2023Liked by SuperSally888

Vaccine uptake was a bragging right, and therefore suspect to padding, by the mayors and LGUs involved. There was a time when there was over 100% of vaccine uptake for Quezon City--- the mayor of whom is a fucking retarded bitch tryna brag about having the most vaxed constituents. Quezon City later revised it to a more realistic bragging number of 90 something percent. But I'd take a look at "vaccine uptake" statistics with a wary eye, because of the pressure to brag about having more people vaccinated than not.

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100%. There are 19 million doses of vaccines unaccounted for as well.

The safe and effective messaging was so strong. Many bought in hook, line and sinker. If one dose is good, two or more are better. Many persons had far more than recommended doses. There was also lots of mixing of brands. Heterologous dosing. People were told to get what was available irrespective of what they previously took. Further many believe the Sinovac was inferior, so went back for a second primary series of mRNA as soon as it was available.

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Philippines has had many different c19 poison juices (i.e. pfizer, moderna, azeneca ~140M doses, non-mRNA/-adeno ~80M doses), but the causes of such high excess deaths, comparatively, are rather cryptic, not sure it can be assigned to 'juice cocktails'.

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I wonder how this is going to affect its #1 export - people.

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Surely not well. However, many countries faced with their own population collapse are actively recruiting Filipinos. The loss of nearly 3 years education though will have dire consequences in terms of the Philippines ability to export skilled labor.

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Follow the money. Local government executives and barangay (village) chairs were aggressively incentivized to push vaccination. If I recall right, some LGUs offered a million pesos for the highest rate of vaccination among their barangays. These mayors for sure got more.

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This is shocking but, doesn't Philippines have a low take up rate of COVID injections too compared to western nations and Singapore , Taiwan etc ?

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Philippines has around 73 million people take jabs (out of 110 million population). Booster doses are at just over 20 million. Some people have taken more doses than proscribed, having taken 2 different primary series followed by boosters...

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Oh , that's a high number , ok

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