Policy-driven mathematical modeling for COVID-19 pandemic response in the Philippines

Lara-Tuprio, Elvira de; Estadilla, Carlo Delfin S.; Macalalag, Jay Michael R.; Teng, Timothy Robin; Uyheng, Joshua; Espina, Kennedy E.; Pulmano, Christian E.; Estuar, Maria Regina Justina E.; Sarmiento, Raymond Francis

doi:10.1016/j.epidem.2022.100599

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“…Invoking Reicher and Stott (2020), the achievement of order during the pandemic is especially complicated by longer histories and broader structural conditions. Our findings in the Philippines particularly resonate with common features of Global South societies, including widespread poverty and steep economic stratification, as well as the frail institutions of nascent democracies (de Lara‐Tuprio et al, 2022; Wasdani & Prasad, 2020).…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 70%

“…Finally, with specific regard to the lockdowns that constituted the Philippines' major policy for pandemic response (de Lara‐Tuprio et al, 2022), we observe a major incongruence in leaders' and communities' narratives centred around the question of discipline. Large‐scale adherence to quarantines is challenging especially in developing Global South settings where social distancing is physically stifled in cramped cities (Wasdani & Prasad, 2020).…”

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confidence: 66%

“…To harvest data, we applied data collection software that gathered public posts along with their comments (Mhamdi et al, 2018). We collected data from March 1 until July 31, 2020, corresponding to the first 5 months of lockdowns in Metro Manila as COVID‐19 cases rose exponentially in the Philippines (de Lara‐Tuprio et al, 2022).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…First, leaders may be incentivized to performatively comply with the procedural aspects of pandemic interventions, irrespective of their effectiveness for pandemic control. But for local governments where policy guidance during a volatile crisis emanates from centralized authorities (Vallejo & Ong, 2020), it may fall on local leaders to bridge gaps between burgeoning public health knowledge and nationally mandated support systems with contextual needs (de Lara-Tuprio et al, 2022). Strikingly, such questions around performing responsibility also animate congruent narratives, as in honouring frontliners.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For our research based in the Philippines, Facebook serves as the most used social media platform, penetrating majority of the population (96.8%), vastly outnumbering Twitter users (62.7%) in the country (Statista, 2021). To mitigate rising COVID‐19 cases, the Philippine national government largely coordinated with city mayors to implement the public health responses such as restrictions on public mobility, relief support, policy enforcement and testing (de Lara‐Tuprio et al, 2022; Vallejo & Ong, 2020). In performing these duties, local chief executives also relied on social media platforms like Facebook to communicate especially during community lockdowns (Rufai & Bunce, 2020).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Narrative incongruence in pandemic local governance: Mayors perform responsibility as communities demand responsiveness

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Community & Applied Soc Psy

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Social psychological scholarship highlights the value of leadership for mounting effective responses to the COVID‐19 pandemic. Yet considerably less is known about whether leaders and their respective communities talk about the social crisis in the same way. Through a narrative congruence framework, we interrogate how public storylines of leaders and their communities align or misalign. Utilizing a mixed methods approach, we analyse Facebook posts and comments by Metro Manila mayors and their online followers during the early months of the COVID‐19 pandemic. We uncover a narrative incongruence between (a) leaders who perform responsibility and (b) communities that demand responsiveness. Mayors prioritize equity to give the poor more relief aid, assure efficient cash disbursement, attribute higher infection rates to sufficient testing and blame noncompliant citizens for worsening outbreaks. On the other hand, communities seek equality in relief distribution, decry ambiguous cash disbursement, criticize testing failures and fault weak quarantine protocols for crisis escalation. We conclude with pathways for meaningful engagement between leaders and communities towards effective crisis response especially in the Global South.

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confidence: 66%