I still can’t wrap my head around the P67 billion figure. So in the interest of it making sense to me, I decided to do a little computing to find out exactly what P67 billion can do. Here goes…

At P5,000 per household, P67 billion could provide 13,400,000 families financial assistance

At P45 per kilo, P67 billion could buy 1,488,888,888 kilos of rice

At P168 for two-piece Chickenjoy, P67 billion could make 398,809,523 people happy

At P54,990 for an Apple MacBook Air, P67 billion could get 1,218,403 Filipinos creative

At P24,000 for a hospital bed, P67 billion could make 2,791,666 patients comfortable

At P500 for a PPE coverall suit, P67 billion could get 134,000,000 health care workers protected

At P10,000 per bike, P67 billion could provide convenience to 6,700,000 commuters

At P4,504 for two doses of Moderna*, P67 billion could get 14,875,666 Filipinos vaccinated

At P3,629.50 for two doses of Sinovac*, P67 billion could get 18,459,842 Filipinos vaccinated

At P2,379 for two doses of Pfizer, P67 billion could get 28,163,093 Filipinos vaccinated

At P1,220 for two doses of Sputnik, P67 billion could get 54,918,032 Filipinos vaccinated

At P610 for two doses of AstraZeneca, P67 billion could get 109,836,065 Filipinos vaccinated

At 366 for two doses of Novavax, P67 billion could get 183,060,109 people vaccinated

Oh, and there are 134,000,000 500-peso bills in P67 billion

After this exercise, P67 billion makes much more sense to me now. I hope it does to you, too.

Note: Vaccine prices care of the Office of Senator Angara

Money photo by Mari Gimenez on Unsplash

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