Ben D. Kritz
Since helping the hardest-hit areas and victims of the now half-year-long disaster of Typhoon Yolanda has apparently overwhelmed the government’s capacity for action, or for that matter, actual concern (an impression that one tends to form after reading, for example, an admission in a joint oversight committee hearing last week that only 50 houses have been built for one million displaced families), it is no surprise at all that much of the damage caused by the biggest storm ever to hit the Philippines eludes official comprehension.