I don’t think we’ve ever witnessed before such depths of human tragedy as the horror caused by super typhoon Yolanda.

Perhaps it was because so many lives were snuffed out through one of the most terrifying ways, by drowning—and their bloated, decomposed corpses would be left for days where they settled after the waters receded, or lined up along streets to be collected many days later, never mind Mar Roxas’ debate with a foreign correspondent that what he saw were “not the same bodies.”