News about the filing last week of criminal raps against policemen in an almost forgotten case offered some hope for the country’s erratic justice system. On Friday, the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) filed a murder complaint against 17 members of the Philippine National Police’s (PNP) Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG) in connection with its Batangas operation that resulted in the death of activists Ariel Evangelista and his wife, Ana Mariz, on March 7, 2021. The
We are witnessing the continued unfolding of a pandemic like never before, with today’s technologies allowing not just the identification of the virus but the tracking of its genetic mutations and consequent variations—not to mention real-time epidemiological data (albeit incomplete and imperfect) from the barangay to the global level. Even the ability to diagnose the virus through RT-PCR or antigen tests and develop, distribute, and administer COVID-19 vaccines to billions are technological breakthroughs that are unprecedented in their speed and scale. In contrast, during the 1918-1919 flu pandemic, people only relied on their symptoms; by its very definition, asymptomatic cases were impossible
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