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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