THIS time, President Rodrigo Duterte had a good reason to deliver a rant in lieu of a measured speech or public statement.

On Sunday, the country’s healthcare workers (HCWs), who man the frontlines in the national struggle against the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic, provided the provocation in a way that left the President with no choice but to employ his familiar and instinctive shock-and-awe rhetoric.

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