Listened to an angry old .@DILGPhilippines official being interviewed on AM radio on confusion and difference between #QuarantinePass and #GatePass. It took a while to sort out the difference but it seems to go like this: every household nominates one person who gets...
a #QuarantinePass from the barangay, preferably by means of the barangay visiting each household and *not* requiring people to go to the barangay hall. The pass allows that individual to go to grocery, market, bank, drugstore, etc. So it allows that person to go around...
The #GatePass on the other hand, is to allow the transport of goods and personnel through checkpoints, for deliveries of materials and products and personnel going to and from factories, etc. It assumes however that individual family reps. will find everything nearby in same...
barangay, which is not the case for things like medicines, for example, or to find a bank that's open. The official also gave exasperating examples of really dim or pedantic barangay officials: one who was insisting a multi-unit apartment was entitled to only one #QuarantinePass
clearer why the government is seemingly reversing itself: after freely delegating to the barangays, it seems confusion reigned, from barangay officials who were (and some remain!) AWOL, to over-rigid or impractical, barangays. So the national government has had to step back in...
to sort out the confusion and start being much more specific about what is allowed and not allowed. But then we hear of even more draconian moves in places, such as liquor bans, which suggests the growing unease of local officials about high-density communities in #LuzonLockdown.
