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"News: February 3, 2021"

‘Hanggang kaya’: QC, Navotas, Manila to vaccinate nonresidents for free.

February 3, 2021 1:14 PM PHT

Quezon City, Manila, and Navotas will include nonresidents in their COVID-19 vaccination
programs, their mayors confirmed on Wednesday, February 3.

Quezon City Mayor Joy Belmonte and Navotas Mayor Toby Tiangco said in an online
Kapihan sa Manila Bay forum on Wednesday morning that they would push forward with the
plan in order to achieve herd immunity.

"How can you achieve herd immunity kung mga residents mo lang ang babakunahan mo
tapos 'yung kalahating hindi mo residente hindi mo babakunahan (How can you achieve
herd immunity if you only vaccinate your residents and you won't vaccinate the other half
who aren't)?" Belmonte asked.

"Even with vaccines that we purchased with our own funds, we allow them for those who
work in our city, even in private companies.... as long as they are working in Navotas, we will
vaccinate," Tiangco said in a mix of English and Filipino.

In a text message to Rappler, Manila Mayor Isko Moreno confirmed that they would also do
the same in the national capital. "Hanggang kaya namin (To the best of our ability), as many
as possible," Moreno said.

Who qualifies?
The cities have yet to count how many nonresidents could avail of the free vaccines, but
they will still stick to the Department of Health's prioritisation guide: that health workers and
the most vulnerable need to be vaccinated first.

Aside from nonresident workers, the mayors said they will also try to vaccinate students.
Tiangco pointed out in a Telegram message to Rappler that qualified students would have to
declare that they would prefer to be vaccinated in the local government unit (LGU) of their
choice through an "attestation form" before availing of the vaccine.

Why does this matter?

Prior to the announcement, people who worked and studied in these cities but had
registered residences elsewhere were thought to be excluded from their host local
governments' free vaccination programs.
The mayors made the announcement after Makati City, one of the wealthiest LGUs in the
country, announced its plan to vaccinate nonresidents.
Belmonte also pointed out that this effort, in the long run, would prevent infections within
Metro Manila.
"At the end of the day, all cities in the NCR (national capital region) are contiguous, they are
adjacent to one another, and our people traverse these porous borders. So it doesn't make
sense to concentrate in your area," she added.- Rappler.com
Evaluation:
According to the news, it is about the capacity of the vaccine in the chosen city
of the Philippines. They would push forward with the plan to achieve herd immunity.
That is why the said city mayors are gathered and discuss the distribution they are
making about the said vaccine. In this statement Belmonte asked, “How can you
achieve herd immunity if you only vaccinate your residents and you won't vaccinate
the other half who aren't”. She uses Ad Hominem Fallacies wherein she is riddled
with personal attacks because she sampled first the person rather than to what she
is referring to which is the residents who will get vaccines.

It will also involve some logical fallacies like the Hasty Generation because
there is a general statement like the ongoing distribution of vaccines so that without
sufficient evidence to support it. It is made out of a rush to have a conclusion,
leading the arguer to commit some sort of illicit assumption, unwarranted conclusion,
overstatement, or exaggeration.