Malaysians need cash injections now to survive Covid-19 economic disaster
Friday, 20 Mar 2020 11:24 AM MYTReversing PCB directly to the employees will put money in their pockets, to use on their children, on sick parents, on paying for necessities for the next few months. ― Picture by Miera Zulyana
This is a measure that is easily within the government’s ability. There’s no need for people to apply for anything, qualify for anything, to find the right form. Just press the button, and send that money back to where it came from in this dire time of need. The recent addition of another few billion ringgit announced by Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin will not really make a difference. The lockdown has changed everything.
If anything, the government should consider giving an immediate increase in salary to the people on the front lines, especially those on the lower pay rungs. All the emergency personnel — police, Bomba, paramedics, nurses, orderlies, hospital staff and assistants — they should be paid more.
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