Government Disaster Response

Now isn't the time to help. Enough governments already have relief supplies available for natural disasters so they're already helping. If you really want to help then work on protection against future disasters. People only feel like they care now because it's in the news. The ongoing vulnerability of the Phillipines to natural disasters isn't in the news and people won't care enough to help them prepare before it happens again. A sea wall last week would have been wort

Natural disasters requiring emergency aid isn't really something that requires two parties scrutinizing each other, imo

Can anybody elaborate why? I understand if it's financial crisis or some other gov fuckup. But this is a natural disaster on an unprecedented scale, government may not have enough resources to handle it. What's the game here?

Perhaps disaster response folks pre-positioning. Red Cross, etc.

Makes much sense for disaster relief.

That's fine for disaster response.

How is this relevant to the unfolding disaster?

Considering the rapid efficient response to Katrina in New Orleans and the Hurricane Dorian in Puerto Rico (catastrophes which, unlike a new virus, are completely unpredictable in their timing of appearance and scope of impact) it's pretty clear that the US would have rapidly deployed infrastructure and supplies exactly where they needed to prevent any casualties.

Because there is an ongoing disaster?

I understand, but your situation is state emergency in which the very infrastructure is damaged, and not "the default" - you'll priorities will likely be different than ones people I'm targeting have and focused on recovering access to electricity/clean water, etc. ect. This will likely differ from people in so called rising markets too.