Spokesperson Harry Roque clearing his name and saying being unemployed is not a joke.

A job is a need for this pandemic, the pandemic is one of the things that force businesses to close that causes a lot of unemployed. Spokesperson Harry Roque has been on top of the headline since he is telling that he is happy for the percentage of unemployed in the Philippines. That drew a lot of attention because why are you glad that there are 47.7 out of 100 percent unemployed Filipinos. To clear the accusation on what he said. Here is what you need to know.

“By the way, may mga ibang tao na minasama at binigyang kulay yung aking sinabi na nagagalak na hindi tayo 100 percent na nawalan ng trabaho. Ang ibig ko lang pong sabihin, it could have been worse,” Spokesperson Roque said in an online briefing.

(There were some people who thought badly and gave color to what I said that we are glad that we are not 100 percent jobless. What I meant was, it could have been worse.)

He also said this is just temporary and we will rise again. We will all get back to work. This pandemic may be vanished or stay but I know the government will do something on this and this is alarming.