HEADS UP: Vote with Conscience or Go with Lesser Evil in the 2022 Elections? (Oct. 22)

Here's a Heads Up from reportr on news that you need to know today, Oct. 22.

2022 ELECTIONS

• It sounds deceptively simple. In next year’s elections, should you vote based on conscience or should you pick the lesser evil?
• Vice President Leni Robredo thanked supporters for wearing pink in support of her candidacy for president, reminding them to keep calm and be kind when flaunting their political color.
• Comelec will simulate the voting process tomorrow to check how COVID protocols can be implemented in May 2022.

PIXEL WORLD

• Add me on Boomerville? Social media is rife with suggestions for a new name for Facebook, following a report that it was planning a rebranding as early as next week.
• What is an ETF and why is it driving the Bitcoin rally that has seen the cryptocoin return to record highs?

NEWS YOU CAN USE

• A clarification from Malacanang. Minors are generally not allowed to go out under Alert Level 3. However, there are exceptions. There were 4,806 new COVID cases yesterday.
• Manila Ocean Park has reopened for those 18 to 65. Here’s what you need to know.
• BPI clients, take note of maintenance work on Oct. 24 that will leave some services inaccessible.

NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW

• The Philippines has filed yet another protest against China, accusing Chinese ships of challenging Filipino patrols in the West Philippine Sea.
• Sen. Leila de Lima is seeking an investigation into the illegal use of text blast machines, another offshoot of emergency alerts that promoted the presidential bid of former senator Bongbong Marcos.
• South Korea is joining the space race. It will attempt to launch a one-ton payload via its first homegrown rocket. Fishermen in Cagayan and Surigao del Sur provinces were advised to avoid going out to sea to avoid getting hit by debris.
• U.S. authorities have authorized mixing and matching vaccine brands for booster shots.
• Israel has reported a case of a Delta coronavirus subvariant that has been detected in parts of Europe.
• Doctors in the U.S. stopped short of calling it a miracle. A pig kidney was found to work on a human patient.
• Former U.S. President Donald Trump is launching his own social network called TRUth Social to regain his internet dominance.