Covid 19 : For Once Najib Might Be Right, We Should Nor Rush To Allow Most Business Activities To Resume When It Is Still Touch And Go

For once, I think I have to agree with Najib - Bolehland should not rush to allow businesses to resume when it is still a touch and go thing with the Covid 19 situation.

Even the average Bolehander who has endured the nearly 2 month long MCO, does not quite agree with Pm Moo. Read the comments to the youtube video of Pm Moo's announcement.

Most netizens favour the government to go slow rather than rush to allow businesses to resume, even with social distancing and other guidelines to follow.

Why risk a new outbreak when we should be certain that the Covid 19 situation has truly improved such that we can allow businesses to resume without having to keep turning over our shoulders fearing the worst?

The number of new infections might have gone down to double digits for a number of days lately. Still, it has not being a consistent downward trend. Some days there might be 30 or 50 new cases and another 70 or 90 or more.

Does that or should that inconsistent trend inspire so much confidence that we should begin to throw caution to the wind?

What about the situation of the presence of a large number of foreign workers in the country, many of whom are said to be undocumented ones? They might well be the vulnerable community that we might have overlooked.

Even our otherwise super efficient neighbour Singapore had failed to look into it and now have to do damage control.

Singapore had the easier task. Their migrant workers are housed in special guest worker domitories and most of them are documented ones. Of the total 17,000 plus cases in Singapore as of today, a large percentage of the cases involves migrant workers and work permit holders if I am not mistaken.

We don't have this luxury. Even with the doumented foreign workers here we might not know where they are. What about the large number of undocumented, illegal ones said to be here too?

Have we even seriosuly started looking into it and working out how to go about the task?

We can only hope that Moo's backdoor government is not missing out on something and that it is up to the task.

Meanwhile, it might be wiser to go slow than go too fast in our eagerness to re-open the economy