Former Vice President Jojo Binay is appalled by government officials’ lack of compassion and disregard for basic rights in their effort to control the spread of the coronavirus.
From “voluntary surrender” to “Oplan Tokhang” style of corralling suspected COVID carriers, Binay said this was “plain victim-shaming.”
“Of late, senior government officials have been chastising the public as if they were children, threatening them with reverting to stricter lockdown rules if they do not behave. If this is the way most government officials think, then the public has every reason to be wary, if not angry, at their leaders,” said Binay in his Manila Bulletin column.
If there was anybody to blame for the continued rise in COVID infections, Binay said it should be the government.
“Rules on wearing face masks and physical distancing were observed, Mass gatherings were avoided, even frowned upon. The few who did commit infractions were treated by authorities harshly as if to prove a point, but eventually the lesson was lost with every reported incident involving a government official or VIP who flouted the rules but was let off with a slap on the wrist,” said Binay.
“Hindsight, as the saying goes, is always 20/20. A senior official recently admitted that the government should have been more proactive in the early stages of the pandemic. But in terms of owning up to its lapses and shortcomings, that was as far as the government went. Lack of discipline, not government’s failings, are to blame for the continuing increase in cases,” he added.
Source: Latest Politics News Today (Politics.com.ph)
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