Marcos on disaster response: You can't wait, do it now

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Confronted with consecutive disasters such as typhoons and a deadly earthquake, President Marcos emphasized that response from the government must "move very quickly" with no delay.  READ: https://mb.com.ph/2025/10/06/marcos-on-disaster-response-you-cant-wait-do-it-now  Subscribe to the Manila Bulletin Online channel! - https://www.youtube.com/TheManilaBulletin  Visit our website at http://mb.com.ph Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/manilabulletin Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/manilabulletin Instagram: https://instagram.com/manilabulletin Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@manilabulletin  #ManilaBulletinOnline #ManilaBulletin #LatestNews

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00:00In government, the best that we can do is really to be prepared,

00:04as prepared as we can possibly be, and move very, very quickly.

00:08Just always, it's very simple for me.

00:12I'm motivated by, in fact, think of the children that are in distress now.

00:17What do they need? What do we have to do?

00:19You cannot wait. Don't do it later. Do it now. Do it now. Do it now.

00:24And I think the challenge with almost all disasters, especially globally,

00:28is that the moment they get shunted out of the headlines or the news,

00:32it's what's happening there, and that there are people still suffering and still trying to recover.

00:36Well, that's what I want to avoid.

00:39And that's why I made it very clear when I went to both Masbaste and to Cebu.

00:44I said, this is not a one-time thing.

00:48We're here. We're going to stay here until everyone is more or less in a stable condition.

00:54The difference between, for example, a storm, a typhoon, like what happened in Masbate,

01:01and an earthquake that happened in Cebu.

01:05In Bugo City.

01:05Pagbagyo, you can always say preemptive evacuation.

01:09Dali nyo sa evacuation center.

01:11However, after an earthquake, the main damage is infrastructure.

01:18It's structure.

01:18Pagdating ng lindol, sasabihin, dali natin sa evacuation center.

01:23Hindi tayo nakakasiguro sa evacuation center.

01:25We have to get the engineers to come in, to inspect.

01:28And as a natural reaction, the people do not want to be in concrete buildings.

01:36Baka mag-aftershock.

01:38So, natatakot sila.

01:39So, they prefer to stay out.

01:48So, natatakot sila.

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