This Sept. 16, 2021 file photo shows a Chinese scientist arranging laboratory logs at a lab of the Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. XINHUA PHOTO
STUDY the science. Trust the science behind it. This is the wisdom of our times. The many complaints about how we managed the Covid outbreak in the Philippines, including what now seem to be impositions, restrictions and prohibitions of dubious constitutionality, were triggered by the fact that bureaucrats were tasked with decision-making rather than scientists.