FOREIGN observers, specially, have been congratulating the Aquino administration for its “success” in handling the risk reduction and risk management tasks required by former super typhoon, then storm and now tropical depression Ruby/Hagupit.
The smallness of the number of deaths and injuries and property damage Ruby/Hagupit has caused compared to those Yolanda/Haiyan caused is, however, not largely due to anything the national government did. Unless you want to give credit to the Aquino administration for this time not giving misinformation about the super typhoon, which the Secretary of Interior and Local Government and the Secretary of National Defense did on November 8, 2013 in Leyte, preventing the local government and the citizenry from bracing for Yolanda.
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