Coronovirus in the Philippines

Electronics in my opinion degrade faster in a tropical climate, but we have had good results with most of the stuff we've bought their over the last 15 years.

Top Gear had some fun reviews of Chinese knock off car copies a few years ago Clarkson era

In the 1970s my boss at the time used to go for a nice top end motor every few years, can't remember what brand he used to go for but then one year he bought a Honda Prelude and he was absolutely made up with it because it had much more basic kit than the cars he had been buying and at a cheaper price, electric windows and seats, seat heating all that kind of stuff and even back then they were bullet proof.

China is doing the same to the big brand names now.

oops getting off topic.

My second hand ThinkPads which I took over for the kids work year in year out, they are up to 7 years old when I buy them and now my son has had his for 3 years still going strong and Janna burnt out a fan in hers and switched back to her mums ThinkPad it has now been working there for 5 years, the burnt out fan is quite common, easy to fix here hard to fix over there which is why I brought her X230 laptop back with me last time.

The climate might also be part of the reason that Covid has not exploded over there (to get back on topic )

James just told me a few hours ago that Nanay (their granny) and Dhang have refused to register for the vaccine today when an official came to the house to enquire about over 18 vaccine registration.

Turns out Myrna (one of Ana's other sisters) has probably poisoned their minds with chismis and Facebook bullcrap.

Nanay is worried about reactions with all her other medicines for no reason, none of them have taken any medical advice on this.

I was really angry as all they had to do was register they could have refused later if needs be.

They didn't call me but I have an official slot now on Sunday, same local medical centre and probably the same batch of vaccine they got delivered on Wednesday.

Probably just as well as I am day 5 from my unwanted encounter with the hospital and so far I still appear ok, if I don't get sick tomorrow, Saturday or Sunday morning then I am probably clear so when I get the vaccine on Sunday and if I have a reaction to it I can probably be fairly sure it is a reaction to the vaccine and not an emerging infection from last Sunday.

No guarantee of course, had I officially been exposed and notified by the NHS app self-isolation would have been 10 days, but doctors and nurses don't carry their phones around with them at work so my NHS app was useless in a hospital.