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Of Backdoors And Belligerents
The pandemic has opened a gate. What was once considered normal prior to the COVID-19 crisis is now confounded as the bedrock culminating the global halt of our state of affairs. To move forward, then, entails the reimagination of an alternative securing the public’s welfare in the days to come.
From the government to the academe, the institutional response to the outbreak captures the heart of a dog-eats-dog world—of a system designed to premium the accumulation of wealth and consolidation of power. Different sectors of the larger society, as a result, continue to bevulnerable amid this pandemic, while those in the upper echelons are prioritized and safeguarded.
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It can be recalled that as the coronavirus made international headlines, the approach of the Duterte administration downplayed its repercussions and tiptoed around Chinese interests. Seven months since then, the cases of infections have soared to more than 200,000.
