WHEN it comes to management of the coronavirus pandemic, the Duterte government just doesn't get it, has never gotten it and has apparently decided that specifically working to avoid getting it represents productive action.

Late last week, in response to another of President Rodrigo Duterte's late-night grumpy old man rants about "mga pasaway," being the sole reason the country has failed to come to grips with the pandemic, the Department of Justice (DoJ) "approved the implementing guidelines governing the arrest and investigation of Covid-19 health protocols violators."

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