Covid-19 in the news of seekers, scoundrels, and saints / Ma. Ceres P. Doyo

Foreword -- Author's note -- Seven "deadly plagues" from China -- Outbreak at sea, like a dystopian movie -- vco in the time of COVID-19 -- Microbe-turned-Goliath -- When hospitals burst at the seams -- We are all soldiers -- Marooned voyagers becoming poets, sages -- Churchwomen serving in the trenches -- Indigent -- Like a thief in the night, China -- Trump unhinged and other vexations -- A different summer -- Balik Probinsiya -- While counting the dead -- rgs nuns warn against cybersexploitation -- Distance learning and teaching -- A vco study in pandemia -- lsis and ofws No name for their pain -- From pathocracy, deliver us -- The case of the cremated bag of rice -- Those hurtful utterances -- A Philhealth ghost story -- Modified enhanced stupidities -- Taiwan Got it right vs. COVID-19 -- L is for Rabbit -- Benumbed and bedumbed -- Creepy conspiracy theories and the vaccine -- Missionary journey amid germophobia -- Food porn, poverty porn and Christmas -- Immunity with impunity, psg-style -- Preferential options and other ruminations -- Government preference for China vaccine -- 2020 Filipinos of the Year: Health care frontliners -- Filipinos of the year Runners-up -- First vaccinees as test bunnies -- Vax day dry runs and other vexations -- Disposing of vaccine vials, syringes, needles -- In the maw of death sans ivermectin -- For every Sinovac vial -- Fil-Ams' plea to Biden: US Vax for PH --Global Sisters Report -- From utang na loob to bondage -- My vax day -- That mad scramble for Pfizer vaccine -- Unmasking China's startegy on Covid-19 -- For the unvaccinated, the inevitable -- Perpetually preplexed people -- Buking -- View from Ano raw? Republic -- Yes, I swindled, Your Honor -- Online Sexual Abuse of kids increasing -- PH PPE makers left out, China favored -- The lugaw imperative -- Testing COVID-19 positive as welcome rest -- A new force has begun -- A good read: The COVID-19 Catastrophe -- Credits -- About the author.

COVID-19 in the News: Of Seekers, Scoundrels, and Saints gathers prize-winning journalist Ma. Ceres P. Doyo’s columns and feature articles about the COVID-19 pandemic published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer and the Global Sisters Report from 2020 to 2022. Like a slideshow of the nation’s journey during the pandemic and complemented by photographs, illustrations, and other images, the articles here feature the heroic efforts of health care frontliners, service providers, concerned citizens, institutions, and organizations as well as the scoundrels who squandered national resources and made life difficult for many in the recent history that ushered in a life-altering new normal.