We already knew how COVID-19 is dangerous in early January, and as you can see, some countries already prevented the huge cases by performing a travel ban. It is obvious that sacrificing a few days is better than sacrificing a lot of months that will be resulted into waste
If only our Government has thick ball during the first day to impose travel ban, then we would not suffer heavily with this pandemic. Its not only the government's fault but our community has lack of discipline. During locked down, you can still see people lurking even its not allowed to stroll, ignoring the deadly virus to easily contract people.
Anyway what done is done. Infairness, somehow some business have started to progress but of course there is sacrifice needed in order to stay of the game, unfortunately the consequence beared by poor filipinos. Infairness werent that worst but not that good either. Its just matter of handling the worst scenario. Read this, [1]
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https://rappler.com/business/coronavirus-drives-philippines-toward-recession-duterte-4th-year-endsother countries actually allow people travel but forcing them to go home to their respective home town before locking down was implemented. vietnam did this.
our government did the opposite. but this is probably one hard thing to di because because Philippines is archipelago. the government can;t provide money right away for the people who wants to go home because it has to be decided by officials first and officials can vote NO as always.
to blame, its really the kind of government we have and this is why it need constitution change (cha-cha).