When Moo's backdoor government finally decided to enforce a more serious Covid-19 lock down in mid December that, though late, was still better than nothing.
However, it looks like the recent MCO is not working well, 2 weeks down the road.
The number of infections hit a high of 4275 yesterday and still high today at 3346 today.
The figures don't show any signs of plateauing any time soon. They just vacillate between 3000 plus and 4000 plus.
Why has the recent lockdown not helped to reduce the number of infections to a level that gives confidence that we are doing it right?
One concerning factor maybe the fact that we are allowing practically all sectors of the economy to operate instead of the essential ones, compared to when Bolehland had its first nationwide lockdown early in the year.
Many are still able to travel inter-district, inter-state to work so long as they can show a letter from their employers, instead of being encouraged to work from home.
The other concerning factor that doesn't make sense is allowing full passenger capacity in public transport?
And uncertain/changing SOPs.
But what about our foreign work force?
Have we done what we should have done, or done enough, to check their situation?
That was the thing even our otherwise super efficient neighbour Singapore initially overlooked.
Unlike the Singapore situation, Bolehland has a large foreign work force, half of whom are said to be undocumented ones, scattered all over the country.
Many of the foreign workers, the documented and undocumented ones, don't stay in one place. That just adds to the problem of tracing, unlike the situation in Singapore.
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