#usewisely

Over the years, Media has been a huge use of almost every particular individual, every institutions and generally speaking almost all over the world. It surpasses even to the deepest intents and minute places of the universe, in other word, accessible in all aspect.

Am I enough knowledgeable or am I literate with it comes to media and information literacy? By that question been asked, it gives us the importance of really knowing about media. It is really true that many people does not have knowledge and illiterate about media and information and that experts would always try their best to educate such. The value of being a media and information literate is significant particularly in our time today, and the problem is between our own humanity, like for example, We as human always tend to fight for freedom of expression and that the problem is we’re too much expressing our rights that we forget that we are leading to the point of being illiterate. Freedom of expression through social media would always be a freedom, but the main thing is, are we literate enough? Do we follow values and ethics? Absolutely not. Even the way we post and utter things, it seems that we are so confused of our freedom. Freedom, I would say have always its corresponding responsibility. Another example is, when we share information through Facebook, though it is not bad neither good, we still do even without thinking before clicking especially in sharing information without even knowing if true, or not, relevant or irrelevant. Are we even aware that by just a simple click, all info’s will be shared to millions of people around the world?

Media is so helpful, that is, if we use it with soberness, ethics and care. Let us be literate enough and be knowledgeable with the use of a careful handling of media and information.

The Dengvaxia Vaccine is the hottest news and most of the people are curious and talks about this matter. The most victim here in the Philippines are those people who have a poor status in life especially those children who studied at many public schools. But let us know what is dengvaxia is and why this kind of medicine kills people and not help the people with dengue virus. According to the research, Dengvaxia Vaccine came from France and the developer is David Loew of Sanofi Pasteur, the company made this vaccine. The purpose of Dengvaxia Vaccine is to prevent and eliminate the dengue fever to humans but there are some technically and a serious happened mistake while delivering this vaccine in 2017 because it is near to expired for just a year and the requirement in order to import it to the Philippines need to have a 2 year above before expiration date but the vaccination program continued and done to the Filipino children in all public schools. After a month, The Sanofi announced that for those not previously infected by dengue virus, however, the analysis found that in the longer term, more cases of the severe disease could occur following vaccination upon a subsequent dengue infection. After a month there was a 10-year old Filipino child who gets a severe disease that causes her to death. The DOH take an action on this and more than 800,000 school-age children were vaccinated in 2016, suspended a vast public immunization programme last year because of safety concerns. This is one of the most serious problems in our country right now because it is all about the lives of our fellow Filipino especially the children who are the most victim of this circumstance. On the other side said that there is no mistake made by the Sanofi but to those people who are wanted to vaccinate themselves even that they did not infect by dengue virus. Eventually, we need to solve this problem especially the DOH to prevent the bad effect of the Dengvaxia Vaccine that can cause a serious disease and death to those people who are vaccinated.