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If a family owes you billions of pesos—and worse, if you remain poor while they live like kings and queens—how can you just say “forgive and forget”? No, the Marcoses are not only the past. They are the present.

Paterno Esmaquel II, @paterno_II

Filipinos don’t have a “mall-going” culture. There is a severe lack of free recreational areas; parks, picnic spaces, gardens, public spaces not blocked along lines of membership or class, or otherwise closed for tourism and advertised experiences. @ohn0uno

Past pandemics like 1918 flu have lasted at least two years, so we should have expected at least that sort of duration. Some pandemics lasted a bit more than that, and periodically returned. It’s like the expectation that the Civil War would be over in a few weeks. Nope. Denise Dewald, MD, @denise_dewald