The criticisms
to the Duterte administration are mounting and all of them are coming from
either the communist left or the political opposition.
And came former
Supreme Court Senior Associate Antonio Carpio, he made himself in public again to
give the President an unsolicited advice.
Carpio said
Duterte should not hide the administration missteps in their dealings with the
novel coronavirus 2019 disease or COVID-19 pandemic.
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| Retired SC Justice Antonio Carpio and President Rodrigo Duterte (photo credit to owner) |
“National
leaders should just concentrate on solving the COVID-19 crisis instead of
covering up for their earlier errors and blunders in stopping the spread of the
virus. That is the way they can make up for their mistakes and earn the respect
of their people,” said Capio in his Inquirer column.
Carpio noted how
the President lightly taken the threat of the coronavirus to which he dismissed
it as a mere nuisance during the earliest stage of the outbreak.
“President Duterte at the start
belittled COVID-19. On Feb. 3, 2020, President Duterte told media, ‘I assure
you even without the vaccines it will just die a natural death’. Mr. Duterte
added: ‘China has been kind to us, we should show the same favor to them. Stop
this xenophobia thing’,” said Carpio.
“As
the Senate found, Mr. Duterte’s policy allowed 536,205 Chinese nationals to
enter the Philippines from Dec. 1, 2019 to Feb. 20, 2020,” he said.
Carpio said it
was only last February 2 the country declared a full travel ban on China, two
days after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the coronavirus
outbreak as a public health emergency of international concern.
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