WHETHER we call it an “economic shutdown” or a “lockdown,” or just a “community quarantine,” the Philippines has reached the point of reckoning in its struggle to control or surmount the coronavirus.

It now faces several dilemmas in choosing between sharply different policies against the pandemic, each one bearing its own set of difficulties and consequences.

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