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There is no reason why we should continue banning face-to-face classes when daily Covid-19 cases in the Philippines have sunk to the low numbers. Resuming in-person classes even under Alert Level 1 will have a clear trickle-down effect on the economy because about 40 percent of the Philippine population is of school age.

The term of President Rodrigo Duterte will end at noon on June 30, 2022. By then he would have completed his six-year term which he won handily during the May 2016 national elections. The 16th President of the Republic will soon graduate to become what he always wanted—an ordinary citizen with none of the trappings of power that surround the highest position of the land.

In the not-so-distant future, motor vehicles running on Edsa and other thoroughfares will be fueled by biomass, hydro dams, geothermal energy, and wind and solar power. Electric-powered vehicles and public transportation, and renewable energy sources are the new normal and the wave of the future.