(Updated: Quarantine for Aprl 5-30 out tonight)ECQ on Holy Week: IATF obviously aiming to curb uniquely Filipino behavior of beach parties, resort reunions, mall get-togethers, swimming pool cook-outs during Holy Wk vacay, Covid count close to 10,000 – ayaw lang nila sabihin nang ganito kasi galít na mga tao (but IATF fails to ask the all-important question … to be able to solve the problem in the long term)

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(UPDATED 3:30pm: From GMA News 7: Duterte set to announce tonight the quarantine protocol for April 5-30. ) Still a knee-jerk reaction. Fails to examine the data and to ask the all-important question…

ECQ on Holy Week vacation: The IATF is obviously aiming to curb the uniquely Filipino behavior of going to  beach parties, resort reunions, mall get-togethers, swimming pool cook-outs during Holy Week vacay, even as the Covid count nears 10,000 a day – ayaw lang nila sabihin nang ganito kasi galít na mga tao.

     But the IATF fails to ask the all-important question … to be able to solve the problem in the long term … and the all-important question is …

sandali lang,

busy ako.

May inaaral ako — ang dami nyo kasi nire-red-tag, inaaral ko data.

   Solving the runaway Philippine pandemic numbers of the apparent second wave

requires a multi-disciplinary approach that the Duterte administration  is deprived of as it is busy red-tagging people in the universities.

    Ok.

    O, sige na nga.

   Here it is:

   Look at the data …

on the apparent second wave, as it were…

    and ask…

     ask, Why?

   The contact-tracing data on the thousands who were recently infected show that

the large numbers were most probably infected when they were breaking bread, as it were,  (or during meal time) ,  with friends, colleagues, co-workers, family members,

in hundreds of workplaces and

spreading to thousands of  homes.

Why did people in large numbers, as if animated by a zeitgeist,  let go of their learned practice of observing physical distancing during meal time

replicated by thousands of  co-workers, family members, and friends?

Ask the Why.

     What were the events contemporaneous to the recent increase which affected people’s perception of the pandemic and would most likely explain the letting-go of the learned practices.

    The “why” is the all-important question,

and the IATF and the Duterte administration is deprived of a multi-disciplinary approach

because …

iyan ang pag-isipan nyo

imbes na mag-red-tag kayo.

A solemn Lent, everyone.