Twitter has spoken: Are Filipinos ready for General Community Quarantine?

Mitzi Santos

May 29, 2020

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  Metro Manila is placed under General Community Quarantine or GCQ including Regions 2, 3, 4A, Pangasinan, Albay and Davao starting June 1st.

  This means that public transportations will now be available to the general public but only  10-15% of LRT and MRT will operate while 300-500 buses will be deployed in EDSA.

  LOOK: Here’s the allowed public transportation modes under GCQ via @DOTrPH | @jacquemanabatpic.twitter.com/KGv7TXdgM7

  — ABS-CBN News Channel (@ANCALERTS) May 29, 2020

  According to DepEd, there will be no face-to-face sessions unless safety of the teachers and students will be assured.

  Malls are instructed to accommodate 10-20% of its capacity.

  Here are the highlights of President Duterte’s address to the nation last night.

  Tadah! Highlights of Pres. Duterte’s address to the nation tonight @gmanews pic.twitter.com/fZxuwhizOT

  — Joseph Morong 🇵🇭 (@Joseph_Morong) May 28, 2020

  Is everyone okay with this transition? Do you feel safe? Here’s what the Twitter people has to say:

  GCQ or Survivor Philippines?

  On June 01, Monday is the first day of The Survivor Philippines, Metro Manila Edition. (GCQ) pic.twitter.com/ih6UhCwdQD

  — Yat (@MeZehri) May 28, 2020

   

  Many thinks that GCQ will be the survival of the fittest. It is now the general public’s responsibility to do precautionary measures to avoid contacting the virus.

   

  Tapos GCQ
  For those who are complaining that Metro Manila will be placed under GCQ this Monday, have you ever thought how hard it is for the gov to decide on this matter? Everything must be balanced. The gov is stuck between the economic and pandemic side.

  — Joseph Villafranca (@joevilla313) May 28, 2020

   

  For over 73 days of putting NCR under quarantine, it’s not just the lives of many that has been greatly affected but also the economy. Businesses are forced to shut down due to bankruptcy and thousands of Filipinos have lost their jobs already. The Government is now forced to ease the quarantine so the economy can slowly recover.

   

  It feels like the government has left us to dig our own graves.

  — CJ (@christianfreo) May 29, 2020

  But again, not everyone is in favor of this big move knowing that the country still has more than 15,000 cases of COVID-19 as of writing.

  the fact that they’re placing metro manila on gcq because the economy is down… mamser there wont be an economy to save if everyone ends up sick mga tanga

  — doie’s soju🥊 (@howoozidan) May 28, 2020

   

  Is this clownery? Placing METRO MANILA, the epicenter of the virus in our country, under GCQ after having—just recently, the MOST CASES recorded in a day. There is no mass testing yet, but there will be a fucking mass suicide. Please keep yourselves safe as much as you can :((

  — enchanté (@marc4ndre) May 28, 2020

   

  Take all the precautionary measures that you can. Avoid crowded places whenever you can, wear mask, wash your hands thoroughly and boost your immune system. “May the odds be ever in your favor.” 

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