The extent of suffering continues in some parts of Bulacan, Pangasinan and Pampanga. In Hagonoy, people still wade in neck deep waters while in Calumpit town, the same situation remains. Name calling and the blaming game have started.
The scope of this human catastrophe is far and wide. Effects of this will be felt even beyond this year, as the true worth of material damage slowly unveils. The destruction is indeterminate if we are to account even the sociological scars wrought by this calamity to the people. Whole towns were completely obliterated from the once lush landscape, as fields become huge bodies of murky waters.
This is what Malacanang does not understand, the human dimension of this tragedy. Peoples from these affected areas need a morale or psychological boost. They need to be assured that peoples from other towns or at least their president, know what is happening to them and are there to help them. Food packs are not enough to satiate this, material assistance is just one aspect of a wholistic approach to mitigating crises but this is not just the component needed. Healing comes when people touch other people's lives and perceptions of helplessness fade.
The president is advised to touch these victims' lives and understand that, as the Country's Leader, he must not just provide strategic direction to efforts at lifting these people from the rut they are in---it is also time for him to assume the post of the country's "dad", although, sadly, he simply does not understand what this means.
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