After ECQ, can we avoid a Covid-19 resurgence?

ONE of the online memes making fun of the alarmingly poor implementation of modified enhanced community quarantine (MECQ) at Metro Manila malls showed an utterly undistanced crowd of people waiting to enter a shopping center. The caption read, translated from Filipino and referring to the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19): “Let’s all please stop jostling and be patient. Everyone will be given Covid.”

The meme isn’t anything to laugh about, of course, for the crowds outside malls when ECQ eased into MECQ almost surely led to the infection of countless people, who would then have gone home and probably infected household members.