Ray Macalalag
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To Make Iloilo City’s Bike Lanes Successful
4–6 minutesOur city is not as rich as equated to its plans of becoming the Most Bike-Friendly City in the Philippines. We must admit that. Despite of how much we desire to have protected bike lanes such as those in Sydney or having bicycles as part of our daily lives like the people of Japan, we…
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How safe are painted bike lanes?
4–6 minutesIloilo City has the best bike facilities in the Philippines. Period. It has long stretches of protected bike lanes designed by no other than award-winning landscape architect Paolo Alcazaren. Adding to this feat, Iloilo is undoubtedly the Philippine’s most bike-friendly city. But being the best, there is still a lot of room for improvement and…
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The pricetag of the ENGR amid the pandemic
3–5 minutesToward the end of August, I would see more students in their uniforms. Jeepneys get cramped up with a lot of people especially at seven in the morning on my way to work and at five or six in the afternoon as I make my way home. The smell of hardwork and business as usual…
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Shaping the country’s COVID-19 Response
3–5 minutesThis is article was originally published with the title, “How opinions are shaping the country’s COVID-19 Response” at Daily Guardian. I am angry and so are most of us. The enhanced community quarantine distanced all of us from each other but has made us into one big multifaceted community in social media where distancing is…
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GDP will not be a priority in the pandemic
4–6 minutesThis is article was originally published with the title, “Will GDP growth be a priority this year?” at Daily Guardian. It just took a little virus to cause the world to shift beyond proportions. The COVID-19 pandemic is worse than wildfires and this will surely be felt in the coming years even if we all…
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The Math of Capacities
3–5 minutesWhy is WVMC-SNL slow in releasing COVID-19 test results Just yesterday, the Western Visayas Medical Center Sub-National Laboratory (WVMC-SNL) issued Advisory No. 11 explaining various reasons to the delays on releasing of test results. Reason No. 1 is that they can process 800 to 1,000 samples per day. Looking at how these numbers are figured,…
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The Philippine’s terrible start in COVID-19 Response
4–6 minutesThis is article was originally published with the title, “Why March 12 was a bit late” at Daily Guardian. The first action that the government was able to do was to ban direct flights from Wuhan, Hubei Province in the People’s Republic of China dubbed as the ground zero of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). That…
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Don’t cry over spilled Corona
3–4 minutesThis is article was originally published with the title, “Not a lockdown, it’s spilled milk” at Daily Guardian. January 30, 2020 – It is probably a date our immune systems would never forget. The first case of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was confirmed in the Philippines. It was in 38-year-old Chinese from Wuhan in…
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