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[OPINION] A legal and moral duty to stay at home
The mandatory orders on self-quarantine, social distancing, and isolation at this time of pandemic do not seem to discourage most people from gallivanting and from limiting close contacts. We have for...
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[REFLECTIONS] Silence is the language of love
It's a first in world history: an online Holy Week for millions of people, even in Vatican City, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Rappler presents a series of reflections to help you, our reader, enter...
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[FIRST PERSON] Diary of a Filipina who survived coronavirus in Berlin
“Ihr Test auf Corona-Virus war positiv.” Those were the words of the German doctor who called me last March 19. Alone in my apartment in Berlin, I learned that I was positive for COVID-19.March 14Five...
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[REFLECTIONS] Easter hope rises from the depths of the pandemic
(A piece dedicated to all those bearing the unspeakable pain of losing loved ones – particularly, those in the front lines during this time – without having the opportunity and the consolation of being...
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[OPINION | NEWSPOINT] The news media and the virus
On March 7, I gave a talk to an audience of professional and aspirant journalists and college teachers in various disciplines on the role of the press as watchdog on government. The talk had been...
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[REFLECTIONS] Finding the risen Christ
It's a first in world history: an online Holy Week for millions of people, even in Vatican City, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Rappler presents a series of reflections to help you, our reader, enter...
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[REFLECTIONS] Dare we not speak of Easter
It’s a first in world history: an online Holy Week for millions of people, even in Vatican City, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Rappler presents a series of reflections to help you, our reader, enter...
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[REFLECTIONS] Stories and dreams: Easter in the time of COVID-19
It’s a first in world history: an online Holy Week for millions of people, even in Vatican City, due to the coronavirus pandemic. Rappler presents a series of reflections to help you, our reader, enter...
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How much PPE do you need to care for COVID-19 patients?
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic early this year, the Philippine General Hospital (PGH) has received and continues to receive donations of various kinds.These include Personal Protective...
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Shinzo Abe joins ‘Dancing on the Inside’ bandwagon
“We’ll cross paths in our own spaces…. Let’s link hands through all the songs we sing. Let’s live and see each other again.”This is how a few lines from the latest hit song in Japan roughly translates....
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[OPINION] Islamic lessons on quarantine during coronavirus crisis
A new virus that has no definite cure to date, COVID-19 is a mystery and presently under study. Scientific research in medicine or biology is mobilized by different countries. Health, medicine, and...
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[EDITORIAL] Bakuna ang press freedom sa panahon ng pandemic
Nakakulong ka dahil sa pandemic. Tapos bigla mong mababalitaan mula sa isang kilalang website na wala ka na palang aasahang suweldo kahit regular kang empleyado. “Mandatory no work, no pay” na raw...
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[OPINION] Rethinking home in the middle of a pandemic
In the past weeks, home has been a key idea in the government’s public policies and pronouncements. Speeches and articles online have been urging the public to stay home to save lives. But what is...
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[OPINION] We need to talk about death and dying
When the 80-year-old man died in the early morning hours, was he alone? Or was he with his wife or perhaps a grandson to hold his hands? I suppose not. Hospitals are banning visits.When the 51-year-old...
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'This is our generation's war': Sonny Angara on being a coronavirus patient
I got my test results on March 26, after taking the test on March 16.I took the test because I started exhibiting symptoms on March 15, when I woke up slightly feverish and with a lot of the reported...
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[FIRST PERSON] Beyond health: The virus' impact on the people of Del Pan Bridge
The following is Part 1 of a 2-part series. Read Part 2, a reflection by social anthropologist Mary Racelis, here. Our world has changed a lot since COVID-19. People have to stay inside their houses....
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[OPINION] Learning from Kagawad Jonjon Elago
The following is a reflection by social anthropologist Mary Racelis on a first-person account by Barangay Kagawad Jonjon Elago on the state of is community during the coronavirus crisis.This is Part 2...
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[OPINION] Losing 'power' in the time of the coronavirus
It may still be clear in Luzon residents’ memory that rotational brownouts (technically called “manual load dropping” or MLD) were noticeably rampant in the second and third weeks of April last year....
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[ANALYSIS] People’s health or economy? It’s a false choice
Key Philippine government officials and business leaders decided on the side of prudence in declining to risk the premature lifting of the COVID-19 lockdown. They thus rejected the false choice pushed...
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[OPINION] Keeping our eyes on the ball: Human rights in the time of coronavirus
For many of us, the reality of COVID-19 went from being a distant tremble on the horizon to a full-on earthquake, in very little time.As a global human rights network, our first thought here at IFEX...
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