Top tweets: Trillanes’ 5-pt COVID plan; Frankie vs Duque; GMA vs know-it-all Duterte critics

1. Trillanes proposes 5-point MECQ plan: Door-to-door COVID testing, convert school into treatment centers, hire nursing grads

Last March, I published the following recommendations:

1. Use public schools as makeshift treatment centers for moderate COVID patients.

2. Mass hiring of nursing graduates as nursing aides. Provide makeshift sleeping areas for them.

— Sonny Trillanes IV (@TrillanesSonny) August 3, 2020

2. Tañada defends hardworking health workers: Hello Sen Villar, nagpapatawa po ba kayo?

Hello… Sen Villar, nagpapatawa po ba kayo? The health workers have been working hard since March. Try working in their shoes while they are trying to save lives…All the pain and suffering they have to go through everyday. #COVID19PH #ECQ #MassTestingNowPH

— Erin Tañada (@erintanada) August 2, 2020

3. Frankie Pangilinan calls out Duque’s incompetence, lack of empathy: How does he sleep at night?

the severe lack of empathy anyone would need to be that unapologetically incompetent is seriously beyond understandable it’s so deeply unsettling

— kakie (@kakiep83) August 5, 2020

4. Gloria Arroyo blasts Duterte critics: Easy to be Monday morning quarterback when not in charge

5. Locsin calls for PhilHealth abolition: Let private sector offer better health coverage

Abolish it and sell the assets, let private sector offer better terms, cheaper premiums, better coverage; anyway the Insurance Commissioner can screw the thieving foreign or local insurance company that price-gouges the public. https://t.co/0LD0sduDux

— Teddy Locsin Jr. (@teddyboylocsin) August 6, 2020

6. Lacierda blasts critics of health workers: ‘Dalhin sa Mars ang negatron!’

A grateful people is indebted to your selfless service! LABAN LANG! Dalhin sa Mars ang negatron! pic.twitter.com/tjMG6AobOv

— Edwin Lacierda (@dawende) August 1, 2020

7. Duque shuts down haters, denies photoshopping Navotas visit pics

People online are claiming that one of my photos during a coordination meeting with Cong Tiangco in Navotas City was edited.

To put an end to it, here are more photos showing that I attended the event with Cong John Rey, Sec Vince, Usec Bong, Dir Paz and the rest of my team. pic.twitter.com/zbRKK1QKSL

— Francisco T. Duque III (@SecDuque) August 6, 2020

8. Metro Manila timeout: Time to listen to medical heroes, Ejercito says

Medical Healthworkers are calling on government to declare NCR under ECQ for 15 days.

According to them most Frontliners are exhausted and overwhelmed with the rise in COVID patients in the Metro.

The Medical Frontliners are asking for a breather. They are tired.

— JV Ejercito (@jvejercito) August 1, 2020

9. Binay to Duterte: Stand behind our health frontliners

I appeal to Malacanang to stand behind our frontline health workers. Humihingi sila ng saklolo. Pakinggan nyo naman ang hinaing nila. Perhaps you can find some middle ground, and explore win-win solutions to address critical concerns.#ListenToHealthWorkers #SendingAnSOS #BeNice pic.twitter.com/6WWtEwd3wp

— Senator Nancy Binay (@SenatorBinay) August 1, 2020

10. Remulla backs timeout plea of medical frontliners: Public health trumps economy

I would have closed down Cavite a month ago but I was asked not to by senior members of the administration. If the choice is between health or the economy, I choose health. We can always regain the economy but we cannot quantify the loss that so many families are going through.

— Jonvic Remulla (@jonvicremulla) August 2, 2020

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