President Rodrigo Duterte has placed the cart before the horse when he insisted that his administration’s roadmap in response to the COVID-19 pandemic will be made only when the anti-viral vaccine is available.
Without a roadmap pending the availability of the vaccine, the Duterte administration cannot simply watch the beleaguered Filipinos and the distressed businesses stumble by the roadside.
President Rodrigo Duterte during his State of the National Address forced a muted applause when he asked his audience of legislators why they were not applauding his call for the revival of the death penalty for drug-related offenses.
The President’s recommendation to the Congress to reimpose the death penalty aggravates his failure to disclose and discuss his administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic which is a death sentence to countless Filipinos.
Like the novel coronavirus which afflicts the country, the President’s default in laying out a concrete and comprehensive roadmap aggravates the pandemic.
His default in disclosing and discussing in his SONA his administration’s roadmap in response to the viral contagion also plagues the nation.
After expecting President Rodrigo Duterte to announce and discuss his administration’s roadmap in response to the ravages on our people and economy of the COVID-19 pandemic, it is completely frustrating that any masterplan was only mentioned peripherally.
The anticipated roadmap meandered into the roadside of trite generalities and an invocation that the people should “trust its government” without telling them what actually the government’s plans are.
Let the proper court adjudicate the alleged violations of ABS-CBN and impose the corresponding penalties if warranted.
The resolution of these purported infractions cannot be left to legislators who have obviously prejudged the issues.
