Thread by @lenirobredo

Sunday suggestions.

1. 7,999 cases at 15.7% positivity rate and 2.03 reproduction number. I hope we are doing massive testing, contact tracing and isolation specially in areas that are on surgical lockdowns. Hindi na puwede yung previous target na 30,000-40,000 tests per day;

2. We need to improve our vaccine rollout. Per DOH numbers, for the period March 1-17, 269,583 health frontliners were innoculated. That is just 23.95%. At this rate, we are only averaging 15,857 per day;

3. Govt target is herd immunity by the end of the year. Herd immunity is 70% of the population. 70% of 105M people is 73,500,000. If we have about 286 remaining days in 2021, we should innoculate 256,993 people per day. We are so far off the target at the rate we are going now;

4. Sec Duque said we can’t rush innoculating our health frontliners kasi mauubos tao sa ospital kung sabay sabay sila tuturukan.

Our ask since last year: prepare deployment plan, treat it as a logistics problem, identify and train vaccinators, prepare large vaccination centers.

Totoo na problema pa ang supply. Pero yung konting supply na dumating, hindi pa natin ma deploy with speed and dispatch. Let us assess where the bottlenecks are. 1M palang supply natin, pero in 17 days hindi pa nga tayo naka 50% utilization, papaano na kung 70M na yung available?

5. Private sector is a big help. Sana let us not over regulate. Let us not make it difficult for private companies to participate. Wala sigurong problema for bigger companies. But for smaller businesses who only want to make their employees safe, huwag na masyadong pahirapan pa.

There are best practices, like Indonesia and India. Okay to have rules and parameters, pero don’t make it too difficult. For every Filipino who gets the vaccine, the entire community benefits.

Same for LGUs—capacitate those who want to invest in vaccines for their constituents;

6. “Sumunod nalang kasi kayo”. Madali lang ito sabihin if you are speaking from a position of privilege. Pero kung wala ka nang ipapakain sa pamilya mo, lalabas ka pa din kahit nakakatakot.

Stimulus package, please🙏 Ayuda para sa mga nawalan ng trabaho at kita.

Hindi sapat yung binigay natin dati. Magandang halimbawa dito ang Malaysia. Naging sobrang masama din yung cases nila when they started to reopen. But they were able to arrest the situation. Maraming ginawa to achieve this. Isa doon, 6 nang stimulus packages yung naibigay nila;

7. Our problem at hand is huge. We have to deal with this collectively. Huwag sana masamain ang suggestions.

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