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Pagka Iresponsable! Flooding the social media sites are
the condemnation of Senator Koko Pimentel’s actions as he went to Makati
Medical Center to accompany his wife who will deliver their baby anytime.
There, he allegedly received a call announcing that he is positive of the COVID
19.
The Philippine Star
reported: The Makati Medical Center on Wednesday evening said that Sen.
Aquilino “Koko” Pimentel III, who announced earlier in the day that he tested
positive for the new coronavirus disease, breached its strict infection and
containment protocols on Tuesday night (March 24, 2020).
This prompted the hospital
to issue this statement: “Pimentel, whose result for COVID-19 testing turned
out to be positive, brought his wife to the hospital for delivery via cesarean
section. By being in MMC, [the senator] violated his Home Quarantine Protocol,
entered the premises of the [Medical Center Delivery Room Complex], thus,
unduly exposed healthcare workers to possible infection,” Medical Director and
Interim Co-CEO Dr. Saturnino Javier said.
Critics lambasted the
actions of the senator who directly apologized for his actions. He underscored
the fact that he was just assisting his wife who is scheduled to have an
operation. But for public officials, would this be reason enough when in fact
he vowed not just to serve his family but the entire country? Was he
overwhelmed by the emotion of becoming a father that he forgot that he is
supposed to stay at home after learning that he was exposed to a meeting with
an infected official on March 11?
Sean (2010) said: We
all have emotions. It is something that is innate and intentionally designed
for us. Emotions are very powerful and we have to be mindful of it. It is because
our emotions are very powerful decision-influencers.
Theorists commonly
assume that people’s attitudes and judgments reflect information about the
object of judgment. But people’s evaluations also reflect information from
their own affective reactions. In social situations, for example, the crucial
factor in our evaluation of other people is often the feelings that they elicit
in us. However, knowing and feeling are tightly linked, and disentangling them
requires methods by which affect can be varied independently of belief.
We can be enveloped
with anxiety or excitement and succumb to them without confronting evaluative
judgment on what to do. This is the time when we can consider that emotions are
dangerous when they take over our judgment.
Observations, along
with a great number of experimental results, suggest that emotion and behavior
may be linked in at least two ways that can be described as reflective and
impulsive. In a more systematic fashion, the two psychological mechanisms have
been described in the context of the Reflective-Impulsive Model (Strack and
Deutsch, 2004, 2015), which provides a conceptual orientation for the reported
research.
Thus, Senator Koko
acted out impulsively forgetting that he was on self-quarantine. The alibi of
telling the people that he did not know that he was infected cannot be accepted
since he was well-informed that his companions during the March 11 meeting did
their own ways of distancing themselves from others. He was overwhelmed by his
emotions he forgot to perform responsible actions for the public and the
country.
Nicole-Ann C. Lagrimas
of GMA News mentioned that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will not investigate
Senator Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III for his alleged breach of home
quarantine protocol unless it receives a complaint, Justice Secretary Menardo
Guevarra said on Wednesday night. Guevarra said the DOJ would
"temper" the law with compassion.
"As I have said before, during abnormal times
like these, when people are prone to commit mistakes or violations of the law,
the DOJ will temper the rigor of the law with human compassion,"
Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said in a message to reporters.
Critics then posed this
question: Would the law be considerate to the poor as well? Others even
juxtaposed the actions of the senator and the common Filipino who is being tasked
to do community service by being caught during curfew hours. They implicate inequality
among the powerful and the poor.
Which leads us to the
conclusion: In these abnormal times, we must do what is considered as NOMAL by
continuously examining the actions that we do regardless of what we feel.
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