From calamities to corruption, ad nauseam

The worst calamity besetting the nation isn’t the series of earthquakes, typhoons, floods, and volcanic eruptions. Not even the pandemic. Our greatest devastation as a nation and as a people, are being caused by outrageously massive corruption. The implications are far-reaching, and the consequences are beyond pecuniary estimation.

- Atty. Josephus B. Jimenez

There must indeed be a power above us which must have caused the typhoons and the floods, in rapid succession, exacerbated by earthquakes and volcanic eruptions, if only to awaken the consciousness of a long-inept and unmindful people. There must have been an expression of outrage from the heavens at man's blatant display of shamelessness and greed. The fury of nature has been unleashed so as to expose to the attention of an imprudent and uncaring population the massive plunder of public funds via ghost flood-control projects and substandard projects.

The heavens must have been so outraged that a series of rallies, protests, and demonstrations were pushing the members of both Upper and Lower Chambers, to attempt to calm the massive buildup of a perfect storm by conducting investigations in aid of so-called legislation. But the two chambers were hitting each other as if virtually weaponizing their investigative prerogatives in order to point the accusing fingers at each other. So Malacañang joined the fray by creating its so-called Independent Commission on Infrastructure.