MONDAY’S banner headline was a surprise only in the sense that we are not accustomed to anyone from the bloated Star Chamber known by the sentence-length name Interagency Task Force on Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF) being frank about anything.

“Government reviews policy amid virus surge,” the headline read, over a story in which Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) President and “testing czar” Vince Dizon candidly admitted that the government was having second thoughts about its recent decisions to forge ahead with “reopening” the economy, given that those announcements were followed immediately by an alarming surge in the numbers of new coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) infections.

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