Jason Abalos On COVID-19 Pandemic: ‘May Panahon Pa Kayong Magjoke?’
JASON ABALOS -Jason Abalos recently questioned if there is a time for jokes during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic.
His reaction was to Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque clarifying that the statement from President Duterte was a joke.
According to Newspapers PH, the statement Duterte made was disinfecting face masks with the use of gasoline.
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Harry Roque said in a briefing that Duterte was fond of making jokes, hence, the said staement was nothing more than one of his jokes.
Abalsos reacted and posted on Twitter saying that they are a joke:
In another post on Twitter, he even slammed the statement, questioning it if there really was a time for jokes about the virus, further mentioning out that his pediatric surgeon friend died due to the virus.
“Namatay ang kaibigan kong pediatric surgeon dahil sa covid, tapos may panahon pa kayong mag joke??”
He lastly said that they were elected for the betterment of the country and not for deceiving it..
“Pagbabago ang ginusto ko nong binoto kita hindi pangga****!”
The latter post gained at around 3.6K retweets and comments. Here are some of them:
“I agree yung excited ako bumoto sa election nayun tapos wala naman talagang pagbabago at improvement ang Pilipinas. Naging kawawa pa at nawalan na ng press freedom ang mga tao wala ng karapatan magsalita laban sa gobyerno kundi patay or kulong ang abot mo.”
@iamtonixlao on Twitter
“Ito yung inaantay ko galing sa likes of Vice, Gonzaga, Piolo et al., bilang malawak reach nila.Kahit nagising lang dahil sya na yung apektado, powerful pa din yung message. Nanindigan. Hindi nahiyang nagkamali.”
@Lythouseofbobbi on Twitter
“It’s sad that it takes death of someone close to you to open your eyes. Did you still vote for the HNP ticket in 2019? That’s REALLY SAD. The only thing left for you now is to speak up against this administration, and make sure you campaign against them in 2022.”
@renanalbelar on Twitter
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“Jokes while suffering.” Here it is again our President joking while his people are suffering. Actually it isn’t new to me, a lot of times like this happened already using jokes as scape gate by the palace to stay away from issues due to inappropriate words that comes out from the mouth of our President. Dear Mr. President, as we all know Covid-19 isn’t a joke, even the media is promoting to people to take Covid-19 seriously. In addition to this, there are commercials saying that people especially actors and actresses are scared of Covid-19. How do you Mr. President expect your people to take it seriously when their president is just making fun with it through his “jokes.” More importantly there are thousand of Filipinos along with there families that are suffering due to this pandemic. Now isn’t the time to joke but to show actions and to comfort this families that are affected by this pandemic. Mr. President your people are supporting you with everything thing they can, and in all of your plans and deeds. Isn’t the right time to show them how worthy you are, especially in this trying times? If you make mistakes while speaking, isn’t right to ask for forgiveness? Isn’t more acceptable to do that, than to tell them that it is a joke just to scape from your mistake? As much as I know “jokes are half meant,” please take note of that!
-YourCitizen