Covid 19 : Is Malaysia Out Of The Woods Yet?

Is Bolehland out of the Covid 19 woods yet?

From the haste to reopen most business activities, it would appear that Pm Moo's backdoor government is confident that we have Covid 19 under control.

All because for several days lately, the number of new infections has dropped to double digits?

However, it must be noted that though the number of new cases has dropped to double digits for several days lately, the drop is not indicative of a consistent downward trend.

Some days the number of new cases would be 30 and then up 50 and then down again and up again to 60, 70, 90 or even higher. The figures don't show a consistent downward trend. They don't or show not be taken to inspire a rush to reopen the economy.

Sure enough, even before businesses have fully began to reopen, the number of cases has shot up to 105 yesterday and 122 today.

That is concerning and tells us that we should rather err on the cautious side instead of being gung ho.

Covid 19 is not your average pathogen. It strikes you even without you noticing anything amiss while rendering you a potential unwitting spreader.

Interestingly, although Bolehlanders have endured near to 2 months lockdown, they are mostly not in favour of the rush to allow  businesses to reopen.

Just read the comments to the youtube video of Pm Moo's announcement to get a sense of the people's feelings.

Even more concerning is the fear that we might have missed out on checking into the large presence of foreign workers in the country, a large number of whom are said to be also unregulated. These migrant workers might be the vulnerable community we should have paid special attention to as we went about the fight against the Covid 19 monster.

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

Singapore has the luxury of knowing where their migrant workers are because they are all housed in special guest worker dormitories. Even then, our southern neighbour had failed to realise what they should have done earlier.

Bolehland does not have the luxury Singapore has because our migrant workers are all over the country. It is even harder to trace where the unregulated ones are concerned.