“Magtiis na lang siguro kayo ng delayed delivery pero dadating ‘yan at hindi ka magugutom. Hindi ka mamamatay sa gutom (Just put up with delayed delivery, but that will come and you will not go hungry. You will not die from hunger).’’ That was President Duterte’s curt message in a late-night address on April 1, hours after some 150 residents of an informal settlement in Sitio San Roque in Quezon City broke quarantine and massed up
Slowly, less than steadily, but finally, it seems the national government is responding to the global coronavirus pandemic with a more or less functioning infrastructure, under a more or less coherent plan, and at more or less the appropriate scale. The main obstacle to fighting the invisible enemy, however, remains
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