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'Clearly, the Philippine government wasted the most precious commodity in a crisis: time.' Read this ThoughtLeaders piece by Gio Tingson.
Like watching never-ending seasons of, President Duterte has once again extended community quarantine. Life under quarantine and physical distancing has begun to integrate itself into the so-called “new normal.” I first encountered this term when Typhoon Ondoy hit Metro Manila; what once was a concept communicated by disaster experts for affected areas is now a global reality. This pandemic is unprecedented and has exposed fundamental challenges and weaknesses of the authorities who govern us.
We can see the same approach in the government's COVID-19 team, mainly composed of current and former military officials. Recently, Environment Secretary and retired general Roy Cimatu waswith police and military battalions in a show of force – as if bullets could kill the virus.
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