President Duterte’s “realization” for the need of mass testing 10 months after the lockdown summed up how an immediate and responsive health solution to the pandemic was sidelined in favour of a militarist response. With former military and police officers taking over health and science experts in the fight against the virus, the Duterte regime … Continue reading State terrorism was normalized as the regime took advantage of the pandemic to destroy the legal mass movement and the people’s armed resistance and consolidate its tyrannical rule