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Harris Clint Dalida BSED-E 2L 2/24/2021

COVID-19 Vaccination Program: Duterte’s Road to Doom or Glory

Ever since his election in 2016, President Rodrigo Roa Duterte has taken the Philippines to an
extraordinarily will ride. He has since long delivered on his promise of transforming the Philippines into a
world powerhouse. However, this is nothing to what 2020 brought the Philippines and the rest of the
world; the terror of COVID-19.

The world has battled the stigma and the scourge of COVID-19 for over a year now. In the Philippines,
we have been under a terrible cycle of lockdowns, a slumping economy and such growing inequalities.
However, Science has come with an answer. An answer in the form vaccine shots. The world has been in
a race to develop these vaccines because this is the quickest way to accomplish our desire of ever
returning to a sense of normalcy.

The aim of the world is to attain Heard Immunity. In this context, we must understand that 70% of the
population needs to be vaccinated. This along with the retention of Minimum health standards are key
making sure that we can emerge victorious and stronger after this pandemic. Nonetheless, a slew of
thorns hinders the Duterte Administration’s drive to achieve this. Some include incompetence and
inaction with the government, the stigma and fear of the last vaccine venture Dengvaxia and a lethal
combination of distrust and the fact that the Philippines is just down right loosing out in the race of
ending the tight strangle hold the pandemic has on the Philippines and the world over.

Finally, I wish to make these final points of reflection. We all understand that the pandemic has taken its
toll on us and we wish to return to how we were before. However, this will not be possible if we
Filipinos don’t cooperate and go hand in hand because the fact of the matter is that the President
cannot succeed in this battle if he goes at this alone. Even more pressing is the fact that the price tag
hanging on this is so great that President Rodrigo Duterte’s legacy is on the line. Should he succeed he
attains glory to the heavens and we experience that along with him. Should he fail, we fail along with
him.

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