17/08/2026
You are a moron who cannot read a calendar, and your entire thread is an embarrassment to basic intelligence. You claim that 'something shifted in the Philippines after 2016,' as if the country was a paradise of empathy and scientific rigor before Duterte took office. Let me correct your historical illiteracy with facts you could have verified in thirty seconds.
The Dengvaxia mass vaccination program that created nationwide vaccine panic was launched in April 2016 under Noynoy and his DOH Secretary Janette Garin. It injected over 700,000 schoolchildren with a vaccine that Sanofi later admitted could cause severe disease in those without prior dengue infection. Duterte's DOH suspended that program in December 2017. You attribute 'a wave of Filipino anti-vaxxers' to Duterte 'sidelining science.' You idiot, the science was corrupted under Aquino, and Duterte's team stopped it. Your causal arrow points backward because your brain works backward.
You whine about a healthcare system where 'death comes faster than a hospital admission,' yet you conveniently forget that Duterte signed the Universal Health Care Act in 2019, automatically enrolling every single Filipino in national health insurance for the first time in history. The WHO called it a transformative political choice for health equity. You blame the man who expanded healthcare access for problems that rotted in the system for decades under previous administrations. That makes you either a liar or an ignoramus, and I am being charitable by allowing the possibility of the latter.
You mention 'killings without due process' and cardboard signs on bodies as if Duterte invented extrajudicial violence. The Asia Foundation documented 305 summary ex*****on incidents with 390 victims from 2001 to 2010 alone, long before Duterte became president. Vigilante killings and co**se signage existed in Philippine slums for generations. You frame them as a post-2016 novelty because you need a villain for your morality play, and you are too lazy to study the actual history of Philippine violence.
You claim Filipinos 'fell terribly ill to fake news' after 2016, yet every political camp in the 2016 election weaponized social media, including the liberals and the kakampinks that you likely supported. You pretend to stand for fact-checking while your own post is a museum of chronological errors and selective amnesia. You are the exact type of hypocrite who demands truth from others while distributing falsehoods yourself.
You describe Filipinos as 'a traditionally caring and empathetic people' who lost their way in 2016. You idiot, where was your empathy during the Yolanda tragedy, the Mendiola massacre, the Hacienda Luisita killings, and decades of oligarchic brutality that predated Duterte by generations? You did not care about Philippine empathy until your preferred candidates started losing elections.
You keep saying 'we' as if you speak for the entire nation. You do not. Duterte won the 2016 election with 16 million votes and maintained majority approval throughout his term. His independent foreign policy prioritized Asian regional cooperation, secured Chinese infrastructure investment for Philippine development, and rejected U.S. neocolonial military dictates that had treated this country like a subordinate base for decades. The Filipino people chose that path. Your inability to accept electoral defeat does not give you the right to speak for the country. You lost, and now you manufacture a national crisis narrative to soothe your own political irrelevance.
Your post is the tantrum of a losing faction that cannot face the fact that its candidates were rejected and its worldview was repudiated at the ballot box.
