But things are okay: Actually things are looking up (despite the chronic problems of poverty, dengue fever, and all sorts of disasters that happen all the time). Even the volcano has settled down, but not enough for people to go home: and now a lot of them are getting ordinary illnesses that are spreading around the evacuation centers.
the gov't is worrying about Wuhan flu spreading here via tourists and people returning from China.
StrategyPage has a good article you should read, ad their analysis agrees with what I see and hear in the rural Philippines where our leftist types are actually worried more about land reform and decent wages than gay rights and that crooked politicians are getting caught and pretend to be human rights heroes.
President Duterte continues to enjoy high approval ratings. The latest poll shows 82 percent approval,...
There are many foreign critics of the Duterte war on drugs but for the people most affected by it there is approval. Filipinos feel safer and more confident about their future. The national crime rate is 3.3 percent less than a year ago and is apparently continuing to decline.
Meanwhile, corruption arrests and prosecutions continue to increase and many of those prosecuted are senior officials, often from previous governments. Duterte has also gone after quality-of-life problems like electric and water supplies. The economy is growing and the Chinese threat is being addressed without getting the country into a war.
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