YOURSAY | In fight against Covid-19 menace, PN must lead by example

YOURSAY | ‘I think Muhyiddin wants his popularity back to May-June levels.’

Ideally, PM wants 'close-to-MCO' restrictions

IndigoKite6964: I suppose tighter restrictions of the movement control order (MCO) would help bring down the infection rate to R₀.

More education on why the standard operating procedure (SOP) works would help rather than just the draconian enforcement of it… with exceptions to very, very idiotic people, of course.

Nonetheless, we are generally sore because we know that the power grab initiated by Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin and executed by former chief minister Musa Aman in Sabah caused this third wave, and if the truth be plainly told, this explosion of cases in Semenanjung (peninsula) is linked to some Sabah returnees at the very root.

Now Muhyiddin wants MCO-type control. This is like having punched you to the ground, he is resorting to kicking you as well.

That said, we should not politicise Covid-19 any further. What has been done is done. There is no point in acting in defiance and causing the spread to be even worse.

We will deal with him and the rest of the rotten bunch when the opportunity presents itself. For now, our own lives are more important.

PurpleLeopard8279: I think Muhyiddin wants his popularity back to May-June levels, and he thought doing the same thing now will result in the same outcome.

We are past the initial stage of virus transmission. There is community spread now. MCO can buy our healthcare system time to expand its capacity, but it can’t kill the beast.

We need to accept that Covid-19 is a part of life and figure out what level of spread is acceptable for the healthcare system to operate satisfactorily.

Jetson: With the present conditional MCO (CMCO), the people are already suffering and Muhyiddin wants to further tighten the rules?

Many businesses are hardly making ends meet now. If new rules are introduced, there will be many more winding up their businesses.

Muhyiddin, if you cannot handle the Covid-19 catastrophe, which is mainly due to your selfish greed for power, please hand it to others who can.

You have failed miserably from day one when you took over this nation through the back door. Today even the Malays are crying as they also are facing serious financial constraints. The people who earn daily wages, too, are all crying.

Hundreds of thousands have lost their jobs, while many have their salaries reduced drastically, and some at the verge of losing it all.

All you can think of is having emergency laws and make the public suffer more. It is time for the nation to be placed in the hands of leaders who are more capable than you.

IndigoBird7612: I'm really puzzled why we need a tighter CMCO in the Klang Valley when the cases are supposed to be manageable.

Please think about families who can't meet each other. We need to bring supplies to them but cannot be running to the police station every time. The police don't like it too because they are busy with work.

Sendilimauingat: If all individuals follow the SOPs, mask up, practise social distancing, ensure self-hygiene, and most importantly, seek immediate medical assistance if they have symptoms and stay indoors instead of watching football at mamak shop, et cetera, the virus can be better controlled.

The fact that politicians might take advantage of the situation is secondary.

Honma: PAS leader Nik Mohamad Abduh Abdul Aziz said it is okay not to wear a mask in places that are not crowded.

How do we define non-crowded places - 10, 20 or 100 people is considered non-crowded? All you need is one positive Covid-19 patient, not 10, 20 or 100, to spread the disease.

Nik Abduh tried to defend the indefensible by making stupid comments. What a simpleton he is.

Sentinel: There is no transparency in explaining to us the transmission chains. We get vague cluster names and we're told that infection is through close contact.

We are not told where the source infections were and the detailed probabilities and ratios of where and how they caught the virus.

We are only told to observe the SOPs. Those of us who actually care about observing the SOPs are left hanging at trying to understand what's going on. Is the infection due to non-observance of SOPs? Is it due to ignorance?

We have to live with this virus. We can't live our lives in an MCO-driven reality. Please understand that you drive up the risk for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) due to people staying put at home.

Diabetes, high blood pressure, heart-related risks increase when we keep ourselves indoors. You increase one health risk when trying to address the other health risk…

Constitutional Supremacy: Take proper and effective measures and do not overreact.

In Singapore, when dormitory cases were discovered in July 2020, the daily new cases were between 3,000 and 5,000. The government screened all the dormitory workers numbering 850,000. It did not panic.

Today, Singapore reported only one new case. The past few weeks it had been reporting single-digit numbers.

Here, only Sabah and Selangor are reporting a few hundred cases daily in the last few days. And the PM wanted to introduce emergency. It is laughable.

Beman: Whatever rules that are imposed will not give visible results in just one day. There may even be a momentary spike (due to delayed effect) after the rules are introduced.

The important thing is to enforce the rules and give them some time before analysing their effectiveness.

Mano: A friend was in a shop in Klang Valley. The boss had a face mask on but not six of his staff.

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