The poor to the rescue, again?

THE presidential adviser on entrepreneurship, Jose Maria “Joey” Concepcion 3rd, whipped up a social media fuss a few days ago. On April 29, 2020, in an online discussion dubbed “We Rise as One,” organized by the Shareholders’ Association of the Philippines, where he was one of the rectors, he suggested that shelved construction projects should now be reopened. And were the construction workers to be left to the mercy of the virus?

That should not bother us, he seemed to have implied. He said: “Maybe because [the poor] are so used to so much exposure that they have a better immunity than us, who are sheltered in a well-protected environment.”