President Rodrigo Duterte has come up with a novel new approach to boosting vaccination rates in The Philippines
During his ‘Talk to the People’ address on Monday, Duterte said he knew many people were still hesitant about getting the jab, which is not mandatory.
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“I know many people are still hesitant” he said “So find them in your barangays (neighborhoods). Let’s enter their houses and vaccinate them while they are asleep. End of story.“
RT reports: The president added that he was ready to personally lead the nocturnal immunization raids.
The suggestion, which was hopefully a joke, came as the Philippines president was trying to convince the public to take the vaccine. On the same program, Duterte took personal responsibility for his government’s failure to secure enough doses for a swifter vaccine rollout earlier this year, but noted that even a limited campaign had reduced the spread of the disease.
The Pacific island nation started its Covid-19 immunization program in March, using China’s Sinovac vaccine. Duterte had earlier blamed rich nations for hoarding available doses and leaving countries like the Philippines behind.
The outgoing president is no stranger to using harsh methods to deal with various issues. He infamously introduced a violent police crackdown on drug crimes, which critics say amounted to mass extrajudicial killings. Earlier this month, the Justice Department said 154 cops involved in the war on drugs may face criminal charges for overstepping their authority. The International Criminal Court, which is conducting its own investigation, says the scale of alleged police crimes was much higher, with the number of victims numbered in the tens of thousands.
Duterte has previously suggested a strong-arm approach to vaccine refuseniks. In June, he said those who won’t take the jab should leave the country or be jailed and jabbed by force. “I’ll have you arrested [and] then I’ll inject a vaccine into your buttocks,” he warned at the time.
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The Philippines, which is privately owned really, is a Catholic country and he’s a Catholic president.
Nut job.
Good way to get assassinated, QUICKLY
Someone is paid off
Philippines is like South Americas or Mexico Corrupt as possible Drug money, thieving everywhere, murders liars money laundering all the usual.
Is this the same Philippines President who was cured of homosexuality with ‘beautiful women’? Maybe the cure for covid is beautiful women ..probably better treatment that remdesivir and intubation death.
And how to deal with tyrannical leaders–boot them out.
This is the same guy who threatened to inject the unvaxxed with Ivermectin, “which is meant for pigs.” Oh horrors, oink, oink.