Former UP Diliman chancellor and professor emeritus Michael Tan on presidential spokesperson Harry Roque's invitation for him to join the IATF: I'm too old and too much of a pacifist to join the IATF... | @JMAurelioINQ
@JMAurelioINQ Tan: ... Which I feel is deadset on a military approach to COVID-19 literally using tanks and arrests and other measures that target peopke rather than the virus. | @JMAurelioINQ
@JMAurelioINQ Tan: My Falfak rating was for the "subject" assigned to me: humane aspects of Covid response. Really, Filipinos sacrificed so much from March onwards in the world’s longest lockdown and what do we have today? | @JMAurelioINQ
@JMAurelioINQ Tan: More suffering, as exemplified by higher hunger rates reported in Social Weather Station’s July survey (compared with May), and yet COVID-19 infection rates continue to climb. | @JMAurelioINQ
