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There is no better catalyst for self-reflection than the solitude a pandemic offers. It applies even more so when an entire nation has to swallow the bitter pill and look at its imperfect visage in the mirror, identifying how we have collectively fallen short in flattening the infection curve months into the Covid-19 crisis.
A stricter movement control order (MCO) has been announced amid rising numbers of cases and deaths and a healthcare system stretched to capacity. And, as usual, we incessantly play the blame game at times like this: It’s the government’s fault for slowly relaxing the MCO even when cases first began hitting four figures, it’s the local authorities’ fault for lax enforcement, businesses’ fault for compromising on SOP implementation to make up for months of lost profits, people s fault for flagrant SOP violation – everyone’s fault but our own.