[Newspoint] Worse than shambolic Vergel O. Santos Already tops in the mishandling of the pandemic in our part of the world, we manage yet to outdo ourselves, such that The Economist will have to find a worthier word than shambolic to describe our new feat. Last week the numbers of cases passed the peaks, and went on rising. But, with an official task force untrained in either public administration or public health leading the fight, what did one expect? As a war council, the task force does possess the look — it is chaired and constituted mostly by ex-generals — but its cluelessness is only compounded by its self-absorbed, authoritarian doggedness. To top it off, untrustworthy numbers are cranked out, tending to minimize the situation and encourage some sense of security, fraudulently.