DOTr suspends all land and sea travel bound for Visayas and Mindanao

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Due to the imminent threat of Severe Tropical Storm (STS) “Surigae” (Bising), the Department of Transportation (DOTr) suspends all land and sea travel, including those of fishing vessels, bound for Visayas and Mindanao via Matnog Port and all other ports in Region V starting 12 noon today, 16 April 2021.

The suspension was made upon the request of the Office of Civil Defense (OCD) Region V, and as approved by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council-Emergency Operations Center (NDRRMC-EOC).

The DOTr advises trucking/logistics companies and buses not to proceed or postpone their planned trips in order to avoid long queues at Matnog, Sorsogon, to Daraga, Albay.

Moreover, the DOTr orders its attached agencies in the Maritime and Road Sectors, namely the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG), the Land Transportation Office, (LTO), and the Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) to immediately enforce the said travel suspension.

According to PAG-ASA, at 6:20 am today, Severe Tropical Storm “Surigae” has entered the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR).

Demi Lovato versus The Big Chill

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What’s your favorite internet beef? Mine is Demi lovato forgetting diabetics exist and fighting a frozen yogurt business in public.

Tbh I was wasn’t on her side at first, but then I saw they’re not marketing them to diabetics,  they’re marketing them as “guilt free”....but then I read further, and it opened my eyes to more revelations.

Demi Lovato was stuck for several years living a miserable life having to have watermelon cake with light cream on her fucking birthday, now she must be smiling while feeling the freedom to eat a real cake without guilt.

Some would say sugar free foods are often more harmful for diabetics because they contain substitutes worse than sugar. Dieting products are even worse, and both are often marketed together so Demi could be correct to call out that marketing and it's a valid eating disorder trigger too.

If you resource to sugar free food outside dieting that's valid. She's not invalidating that nor saying sugar free food should be banned, she's solely targeting the harmful diet culture marketing upon these products which is harmful not only for EDs but other health issues too.

This is coming from someone who has lived with diabetics her whole life. She has seen  relatives losing vision because of it, etc. She goes on saying it doesn't work for every diabetic at all.

Demi Lovato is necessary in the industry, but y’all definitely is not ready for that conversation. 

However, she is a rich woman damaging the reputation of a small business during a pandemic where businesses are ALREADY struggling. 

She intended on calling them out and it backfired. I feel like more people will support the restaurant now.

The restaurant is not the real cause for her triggers. Sugar free cookies do not classify as “disordered eating” if you're in the right mindset. If you're not, then it’s not the restaurant’s fault. The way she PUBLICLY called them out was so immature.

How is she gonna basically say “oh yeah well I also just didn’t like the service, y’all rude!” and then not go into detail about it and instead attack the restaurant “encouraging” the so called disordered eating.

Some people diet in a healthy way & the restaurant is trying to cater to their needs. If someone chooses to diet in an unhealthy way (coming from personal experience), it’s not the restaurants fault.

Then she doubles down and attacks the business AGAIN because they don’t label their goods specifically indicating “FOR DIABETICS” and how the “messaging isn’t super clear.” IDK, if I’m diabetic I think reading “sugar free” would be pretty self explanatory.

Y’all have rose colored glasses on for Demi. Every celebrity gets checked if they wrongfully call out something like she did. Y’all are just mad because she can do no wrong in your eyes.

She’s literally just trying to start shit for getting triggered ON HER OWN.

It’s not even just that, Demi is so involved with herself she doesn’t even acknowledge that dietary restrictions could actually exist because of disease. 

She needs to think about why there would be a need for such things. I realize that she has a disorder, but there are lots of folks who suffer from other illnesses. She needs to think before she speaks. It's extremely important for her to do this with such a large base.

A Filipino Karen tries to stop the community pantry operation

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This should be tagged as "A Filipino Karen tries to stop the pantry operation" 

Marites is our Filipina ‘Karen’ who went out of her month-long quarantine just to report a long line of people who went out to get ayuda from a community pantry.

Inirereklamo ng isang residente ang mahabang pila sa Maginhawa Community Pantry dahil sa posibilidad na pagkalat ng COVID-19. 

People are hungry, Marites. A lenghty queue was inevitable. Social distancing would be missed. Though her concern is valid, people will risk getting infected than die of hunger staying at home.

May point naman si ate. Di naman sya kailangan ibash or pagbintangan na DDS agad. Point your blame sa government na hindi sinuportahan yung ganito kagandang cause by dispatching officers earlier to help with the surge of people. FREE FOOD yan so malamang dadagsain yan.

If there are people flocking in front of my house, I would be alarmed as well. Let us remember that Covid-19 is now known to be airborne and mass gatherings like this should be avoided at all cost. There should be a better way to subscribe to this project.

Kahit may face shield and masks and open area pa, let us not underestimate Covid because scary talaga. I don't understand why people are being vindictive towards the lady, She wasn't screaming or anything (at least based on the video). she was raising a valid point. 

Kaso some said wala siya sa lugar. Kung yan yong gusto niya, sana tumawag siya sa authorities para ma-assist yong magandang cause kaysa gumawa ng issue at LUMABAS AT NAKIPAG-AWAY. Oh sino ngayon ang ayaw mahawaan? Pwede naman no-contact/close proximity action ang gawin. Ang hilig talaga pumapel ng ilan sa atin.

There's nothing wrong with her suggestion. What's wrong is defending this woman's arrogance. If you even paid close attention, she was asking the staff for a permit. Like?

Obviously, she didn't check out other times where the PNP were assisting in implementing social distancing.

She's raising a valid point while breaking protocols herself?. Where's her face shield?

A valid point doesn't outweigh the needs of people who have no choice but to lineup for handouts. If you're saying minimum health standards is insufficient, should we then put all our lives on hold?

Mas meron ngang kaayusan ito eh kaysa pamimigay nang ayuda ng gobyerno. The only way to reduce the people in the area is for the government to provide genuine and effective distribution of the social amelioration.

These pantries exist because we are on autopilot mode na. The national government is incompetent since day 1 of this pandemic.

These pantries are doing a good job to help people, but there must be a better way to do it. The organizers need to find a way to create a better system to reduce the number of people in the area. 

But whatever. Give way na lang tayo sa kanyang moral high ground. Let's give Marites the "benefit of the doubt." LOL.