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I think people are not looking forward to the soaring oratory, the poetry of a traditional SONA. They are not even interested in bold strokes. What they want to hear is the to-do list in a wartime SONA that will spell out the battle plan against the pandemic. Specifically, they

There is a group of forgotten and neglected health frontliners to whom the nation owes so much—the social workers in public clinics and hospitals. The best belated thank you card that we can give them is to make their minimum pay equal to nurses, P32,035 a month, that of Salary