Instances during the fight vs. #COVID19PH and #LuzonLockdown when public opinion, even expressed virtually, produced quick results from officials, a thread. This is a remarkable trend where officials who'd gamed social media have found their old swarming techniques useless.
Cases where public opinion produced results:
1. Cancelation of DOT scheme to stimulate tourism during #COVID19PH crisis by having big mall sales.
1. Cancelation of DOT scheme to stimulate tourism during #COVID19PH crisis by having big mall sales.
2. Administration outrage over Mayor Sotto finding local solutions led to other mayors adopting his solutions and administration toning down its hostility.
3. DTI worked on AFP and PNP to allow essential goods and personnel to travel; later expanded to allow all goods to travel.
4. Administration outrage over Vice President finding transport solution for health workers shifted to scrambling to produce its own transport plan.
5. DILG “clarified” that Quarantine Passes aren’t national policy.
6. Public concern over proposed power to take over corporations led to Executive backtracking and Congress restricting, scope of emergency powers.
7. Justice Secretary relents and revises rules to permit use of confiscated medical equipment where needed instating of just storing it as evidence.
8. Less-than-minimum-wage for volunteer Health Workers provoked outrage and led DOH to announce it would "study" raising compensation.
9. Politicians hoping to get praised for being so hard working they got exposed to virus, instead by revealing exposure and results, became objects of public hatred for having access to testing kits amidst absence of mass testing plans.
10. Heavy-handed, even brutal, administration of quarantines, curfews, and checkpoints, even with the Courts AWOL, led to military, police, and civilian officials at least making token reassurances such behavior isn't condoned and will be punished.
Can you think of other instances where public opinion led to the reversal/improvement of something wrong in the implementation of anti-#COVID19PH measures during #LuzonLockdown and elsewhere?
