Enhanced Community Health Control

SINCE President Duterte has determined that Pangasinan is still a high-risk area but may be reevaluated as low risk by April 30, our provincial government must consider adopting more stringent measures to address the contagion. It is imperative for our provincial government to adopt stricter measures in enforcing quarantine among the populace.

But even as the ECQ continues, Gov. Amado Espino III and his provincial government must already plan how the province can shift to a new normal after May 1 or May 15.  Our assumption is our situation will further improve from high risk to low risk, like an Enhanced Community Health Control (our suggestion) and employ the province’s fruitful experience and acquired capabilities under the EECQ to allow for the resumption of full, normal economic activities. This should mean putting in safeguards to ensure that community transmission is completely eliminated.

Other safeguards may include an imposition on hospitals, banks, schools, markets operating stores and malls to continue to conduct thermal scanning and require customers to wear face masks before entering and while inside commercial establishments including movie houses. Also, parishioners of different sects may be required to wear facemasks too when attending services and rituals.  The wearing of facemasks could also be imposed on persons riding public utility vehicles.

This could be the ‘new ‘normal for life in Pangasinan. And perhaps in time, government can relax requirement for wearing facemasks.

 

Un-Filipino act

IT was wrong for Ernesto Pernia to resign.  That’s because he did it when the country is gripped by Covid-19 that has already killed more than 400 Filipinos and infected thousands more of our compatriots.  Before he quit, Pernia was not a mere government factotum.  He was the socio-economic planning top honcho until he walked out abruptly just days back.  Sorry, but that was a very un-Filipino act.  Pernia was the chief planner of how the Filipino lives, the lead architect of when and where to place food on the nation’s dining table.  After his formula to lessen the impact of Covid-19 was disapproved, he took offense and, in a burst of temper, he resigned.  Childish. He threw out the window all that he accumulated as the erstwhile brilliant NEDA (National Economic & Development Authority) chief.

Again, it was emotion winning over reason.  What a waste.

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