I don't think that having debts is normal just because big countries are also having debts and their economy is struggling too. The point is, we can't prevent having debts if they implemented wise decisions and being competent like the neighboring countries, Singapore, Vietnam, and Brunei. I guess that early travel ban would be an ace decision to avoid this struggle happenning to us on this pandemic. If you really are living here in the Philippines, you knew that the time spent on the quarantine is just being wasted for lifting the quarantine without any changes on the statistics of COVID cases. You will also notice that there are unnecessary things have implemented that isn't related to the pandemic, too much focus on power.