Lots More Coronavirus Signs and Situations

I have written several articles concerning coronavirus signs and situations. I prefer each article to be based on silly things I have seen with my own two eyes but let's start this off with something I only saw in the news. On Twitter actually.

https://twitter.com/PhilstarNews/status/1384088513247813633

"Stay at home, or come with me"

Police officers arrange a scary display at the checkpoint along San Mateo, Rizal by the boundary of Quezon City to remind people to stay at home due to different variants of COVID-19.

This is a weird one. The cops are discouraging people at checkpoints from going any further due to, not just COVID-19, but the many variants floating around. But if you are at a checkpoint then obviously you  want or need to be out for some reason. Why turn back just because you see an early halloween display?

What's really funny is if you zoom in the sign reads:

Stay home?

or 

Come with me?

Grammatically it does not even make sense because neither once of those choices should be a question. It's all declarative, "Stay home or come with me!"  It's just desperate scare tactics for a virus that has an over 90% survival rate and that you don't even know you have unless you get tested.

You know what else is scary? Machines! How many movies have there been made and how many science fiction books have been written where the machines take over? Ok, maybe machines in real life aren't so scary but they tend to impart a seriousness to the situation. Like this machine:

This is a sanitation corridor. Why the security guard did not want me to take a picture of it I have no idea. There is nothing secretive about it. You can see it from the street. He even told me how it works. You walk through it and you get sprayed with a mist of alcohol. Maybe he just did not want me to show the world how scared and stupid this BPO is.

Lots of fake drugs to combat COVID-19 are going around. A few boxes of them ended up on my dinner table but I had no idea at the time they were fake.

This drug is called "Lianhua Qingwen Jiaonang" and I have no idea what it does because the box and instructions are all in Chinese!

It turns out this particular version of this drug is unapproved by the FDA.  They have only approved the English language box.

https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/04/19/21/fda-warns-public-vs-unregistered-drug-lianhua-qingwen-jiaonang-with-chinese-characters

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has warned the public against the selling of unregistered drug product Lianhua Qingwen Jiaonang with Chinese characters. 

Based on its advisory dated April 7, FDA said their continuing post-marketing surveillance saw “incessant sale” of the product even on social media. 

“As per continuing post-marketing surveillance, there is still incessant sale and distribution even through social media platforms such as Facebook, of Lianhua Qingwen Jiaonang with Chinese characters, which were verified as unregistered by the FDA,” the FDA said.

The FDA reminded the public that only the drug with English text and said details in the advisory was issued with a Certificate of Product Registration and approved to be sold or marketed in the country.

“Thus, the agency cannot guarantee the quality and safety of the product with the Chinese text due to these have not undergone evaluation by the FDA and came from unlicensed sources or establishment. The consumption of such violative product may pose potential danger or injury if administered,” it said. 

What the difference is between the contents of the English box and the Chinese box is, I don't know. 

We all have heard how strict the PNP can be about enforcing COVID-19 protocols. Now you can be arrested for not wearing a face mask properly. I was on the jeepney a while back when they waved us over. Everyone that had a face shield quickly put it on. Those who did not faced these harrowing scenes:

In the first picture the PNP had stopped us. In the second on of them is taking pictures of the fact that they had handed out face shields! Woo!  Thank goodness no one went to jail. But that guy who received a free face shield did not even put it on and we all took them off as soon as the jeepney began moving.  

Now let me show you probably the most "They Live" billboards I have ever seen. What is the real message here?

Vaccine is safe

Vaccine works

Sure thing. The vaccine is so safe I need a billboard to tell me so. Why is that? 

Let's look at one last propaganda poster.

This is just your regular run-of-the-mill COVID-19 propaganda poster. But there is something odd at the bottom.

USAID?  Why is the CIA sponsoring this propaganda? Of course they have donated millions in equipment, why not help with the propaganda? The CIA is great in that department. See Operation Mockingbird!