CEBU City Mayor Edgardo Labella is topping the incumbent mayor's own record in banning liquor in the city. It also outdoes other previous liquor prohibitions, including that imposed by law and enforced by Comelec during elections.
Last January, during the Sinulog parade, Labella in Executive Order #39, which regulated business establishments during Sinulog, reduced the ban's radius of 300 meters of previous mayors (including his predecessor Tomas Osmena) to 100 meters from the grand procession and parade routes.
This time, Labella, in Executive Order #53, imposes a "total liquor ban" in all public places in Cebu City within the duration of the "state of general community quarantine." It's wider (the entire city) and total, which must mean, no sale, possession, dispensing or drinking liquor of whatever kind to or by any person at any place in Cebu City that does business with the public, such as bars, restaurants, hotels, or liquor shops, or is open to the public, such as parks, plazas and sidewalks.
The total ban started Monday, March 16, and will end April 14, co-terminus with the quarantine. When the quarantine ends, the liquor ban is also lifted.
MIGZ ZUBIRI DIDN'T KNOW WHERE he got the Covid-19, a test for which found the senator positive. He announced it as if he were coming out of something, partly sad and partly "uplifted" because he said has no symptoms, no fever, no cough and he doesn't feel weak. Where he got it was a mystery to him ("How, I do not know") as he had been "careful," he said, practicing "social distance" and shook no hands. His disclosure, he said, will hopefully show how "dangerously infectious" the coronavirus is.
IGLESIA NI CRISTO'S FAITH may be stronger than the Catholic Church's, or so the INC leaders in Davao City seem to try to prove. The INC devotees must believe they can survive Covid-19, having ignored the mayor's executive order suspending all religious ceremonies.
Maybe INC relies on separation of church and state and the precept of religious freedom. It will be an interesting point of law to resolve, especially that the order came from Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio.
VOICES OF THE TIMES. Senator Bong Go: "In this time of crisis, if you cannot help, just quarantine your mouth. I will continue to serve and I will die service the Filipino people." (From his Facebook post) That qualifies the senator to become president, "willingness to die for the country" being the first half. Now Bong Go needs only the second half, which his boss espouses: "the capacity to kill" and do the killing himself.
Trevor Noah, host of "Daily Show": "I suspect that the president had his brain quarantined." (From his monologue)
HOW DO YOU PRONOUNCE 'QUARANTINE"? The first syllable is "kwor" and the last syllable is "teen." If you say "kwar-ran-tayn," you probably won't survive one, say the diction police.
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