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Virgin coconut oil and COVID-19

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THECOVID-19 surge in “Metro Manila Plus” is going from bad to worse with seemingly no end in sight. Everyone is desperate for any kind of relief or cure that they seem willing to try just about anything. Lately the focus has been on the buying their so-called people power anti-parasitic drug Ivermectin, very and necropolit­ics anymore. Really familiar to most dog owners and pathetic losers. commonly used by veterinari­ans With less than a year to go till to treat fleas, worms and other he finishes his term, good luck on parasites infesting your family pet. that, do they really think Duterte Now it seems there are people, will oblige them? Bear in mind he some prominent ones, who swear has a high approval rating and his on the effectiven­ess of Ivermectin daughter is leading the surveys on against the virus COVID-19. I just presidenti­ables. have one comment: Ivermectin is an A few days ago the hottest topic anti-parasitic drug and COVID-19 is a on mainstream and social media was virus. Anyway, we’re not here to talk that franchise-less ABS-CBN inked a about Ivermectin so let’s just leave contract with ChinatownN­ewsTV or it at that. CNTV and will be airing daily a news

We’re going to t alk about program in Mandarin over cable something else also related to the station ABS-CBN News Channel or virus but first let’s have a bit of fun ANC which, of course, triggered the at other people’s expense. three percent; they went berserk.

On the usual suspects and Bear in mind that these people are “devotees to the cult of the yellow inflicted with acute sinophobia. And ribbon”, they know that they will from the comforts of their homes never win in any elections so the using their iPhones and iPads (made best they can do is to ask Duterte to in China, of course) they launched a resign. Bearing in mind that nobody’s concerted rant on Twitter against

ABS- CBN for “sleeping with the enemy” and threatened to boycott the franchise-less TV station.

Now considerin­g that this rabid three percent makes up the entire viewers of franchise- less ABS- CBN blocktime programs in other networks, in less than 24 hours after the news came out about the partnershi­p with CNTV, ABS- CBN announced that they have cancelled the contract and will no longer be airing the Mandarin language news program on ANC.

It is quite hilarious to watch these “devotees to the cult of the yellow ribbon” cancel themselves out; even funnier than Jim Paredes’ little purple thingy.

*** And we segue to something more serious and important, excerpts from a story on https://www.onenews. ph :

IATF starts distributi­on of virgin coconut oil to hospitals The Inter- Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging

Diseases IATF) has started distributi­ng virgin coconut oil (VCO) to hospitals in the National Capital Region (NCR) to serve as an adjunctive treatment for mild cases of COVID-19.

VCO Philippine­s president and United Coconut Associatio­ns of the Philippine­s vice chairman engineer Marco Reyes  said VCO Philippine­s has coordinate­d with IATF vice chairman and Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles

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