Making sense of COVID numbers

MUDDLING THROUGH COVID Numbers Social Amelioration Mass Testing Contact Tracing Flattening the Curve Medical Frontliners Transportation Education COVID NUMBERS from the Department of Health dominated the government’s reports on its pandemic response. But with backlogs...

Aid distribution mess

MUDDLING THROUGH COVID Numbers Social Amelioration Mass Testing Contact Tracing Flattening the Curve Medical Frontliners Transportation Education NOTHING WAS more telling about the degree of government incompetence than its failure to implement the first round of...

Post pandemic future

THERE WAS little effort to project into the future as 2020 drew to a close. The vaccine program had yet to be announced formally and few were ready to express their hope that the crisis would soon end.  Failed by their leaders and left to themselves, Filipinos were...

Issues of finance and economy

FROM THE beginning, news reports understandably fixed their attention on the spread of the disease with the counts of cases and the fatalities. But the lack of discussion about the economy began to press on the public mind as the disruption of normal activities made...

COVID’s impact on marginalized sectors

As the lockdown set in, media had fixed attention on the plight of the frontliners as well those living in poor communities, noting how the lockdown had imposed an impossible condition on those whose shelter was no more than one room where everyone lived and slept....