THE day before the anniversary of Typhoon Haiyan was as expected for those of us who only remember it to have been happening elsewhere.

For those who have heart and compassion, we continue to grapple with the images we saw of the aftermath of the storm, the voices we heard from Samar and Leyte. For those who know of desperation and need, we can imagine how bad things were, how it could only have been worsened by the lack of a national government in control because it didn’t heed its own warnings about how bad Haiyan was going to be.

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