SunStar + February 23, 2021 SOME twist to the popular quote, “Ask not what your government can do against Covid, but ask what you can do against Covid.” Not that we’re dropping the whole notion of accountability from those to whom we have entrusted the state’s resources, but maybe because, from out of impatience, we need to disengage ourselves from the presumption that government has the monopoly of the better ideas against this pandemic. While officials from different levels of the bureaucracy could not even agree on data, supposedly the basis for policy, there is also the mad scam of medical populism photobombing in the health crisis management. The key technical advisory council of the Department of Health have pushed for enhanced community quarantine for Cebu after hikes in cases and the discovery of “mutations of concern.” In response, the agency’s regional counterparts appealed the recommendation while it asks for time to review data, said spokesperson Dr. Mary Jean Loreche.