YOURSAY | One rule for PAS politicians, another for the flock

YOURSAY | ‘Infections have occurred in shops or places where there is no crowd.’

Masks not needed when there's no crowd, Nik Abduh defends Khairuddin

Myviews: A law is a law. Otherwise, what is the point of enacting one? When the law states that it is a requirement to put on a mask when you leave your house, it does not matter whether you are going to an open space or a closed space.

You wear the mask, period.

Beman: The mask is more to prevent yourself from being a potential spreader of the virus to others. If everyone is wearing a mask, the chance of the virus spreading is considerably reduced, thereby flattening the curve.

So, you should wear a mask whenever you are interacting with anyone outside your home, even if you are interacting with only one person. You are not protecting yourself but the person you are interacting with!

Maybe you are too selfish to see or know this. Remember, if that one person gets the virus through you, he might spread it a few others and it might get back to you and your family.

So, in the end, you are protecting yourself and your family by wearing a mask outside your home. Whether there is a crowd or not is not the point.

Quo Vadis: Could the powers-that-be please confirm that masks need not be worn in public spaces when there is no crowd?

Could the authorities also say what constitutes public place, and what constitutes a crowd, and who is the arbiter?

Sphzxcv: One need not be in a crowd to be infected. Infections have occurred in shops or places where there is no crowd.

Close proximity when speaking without a mask is enough to spread the virus through the air from a carrier.

GreenBear2417: You need to wear a mask when you are likely to meet other people ... and other people may or may not be in a crowd.

Even a single person who may be symptomless but Covid-19 positive can transmit the virus to anyone else around him or her.

When you wear a mask you not only protect yourself from others but you also protect others from yourself. Ill-informed politicians should refrain from giving medical advice.

Coward: First of all, the incident shouldn't happen in the first place. We expect a minister to set an example.

Second, when the SOP (standard operating procedure) is passed and agreed, there is no room for interpretation, particularly by a non-expert such as a minister and PAS member who are not medical experts.

Third, Plantation Industries and Commodities Minister Khairuddin Aman Razali is putting the other person in the picture at higher risk. If he wants to catch Covid-19, let him, but he should not make the risk higher for others.

Coward: PAS central committee member Nik Abduh Nik Abdul Aziz, tell the minister to start wearing a mask. He is just giving everyone cheap ammo to shoot at him. His credibility is already in tatters and it tarnishes the image of your party, and by implication, you.

I also advise you to not make the situation worse for yourself and your party by defending the undefendable.

And yes, those who spread fake news will be made to take responsibility and feel the wrath of God on judgement day, so I advise you to choose wisely.

Hrrmph: There are many instances of these VIPs who are photographed without their masks on. They cannot say they are not in a crowded area when the photos show them surrounded by policemen, bodyguards, followers and a bunch of reporters.

Despite such concrete proof, they do not get fined/charged/jailed. Whilst the rest of us face the full force of the law should we be so unlucky as to encounter any enforcers, like the poor student on the train station some months back.

Can the authorities not see how upset everyone is getting with the double standards being practised?

Astrologer: "My answer was, it was good that he (Khairuddin) did not wear one. He is showing us the differences between crowded places where the mask is required and non-crowded places where it is not required," said Nik Abduh.

Okay, I will tell the same to my kids.

Lionking: Sometimes, one wonders how our country is ever going to progress when we are blessed with these kinds of super-intelligent MPs. 

If we continue having such leaders, we will be on a reverse trajectory which we probably are already.

Apanakdikato: Now we can understand why PAS politicians are fearlessly pushing for hudud laws to be implemented.

It is because they know that they are exempted from the proposed hudud laws no matter how corrupt and guilty they are, as there will be double standards in the enforcement, just as what we are witnessing now.

But at the end of the day, they cannot escape God's perfect justice.

Malaysia Is Surrealist Art That Can Be Bought: There is an invisible boundary that a few have been crossing of late that took them from "irritating" to "extremely irritating". Did I emphasise the word "extremely" enough?

PurpleRabbit4068: The Health Ministry guidelines are crystal clear and mask must be on in public places.

Crowd appears and disappears as people are mobile. Unless Khairuddin has sensors at his back where he can detect the crowd appears and disappears and send a signal to him to put on the mask or not, mask must be worn at all times when in public. All children understand this.

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