We have to strike a balance between saving lives and saving the economy.
| Three weeks ago, I called on the Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin to immediately adopt a new government motto “Act fast and do whatever it takes” to save people’s lives, jobs and livelihoods in the unprecedented invisible war against the Covid-19 outbreak.
Malaysians are making great sacrifices in the national lockdown of their economic pursuits for at least six weeks under the movement control order but government MPs seem only interested in posts and positions in GLCs. It is most shocking that four weeks after the MCO, Health director deneral Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah is making a public appeal for the sustainable supply of PPE for healthcare workers instead of being reduced to reliance on imports and providing a breakdown of when the various PPE items would run out.
Malaysia is in unchartered territory for the post-Covid-19 scenario is a terrain which humanity had never traversed, but Malaysia and the world must now grapple with these unprecedented challenges.We cannot impose a lockdown of the country for 18 months – which is the time-span when an effective vaccine against Covid-19 is developed and widely available.
This is why there must be robust and ongoing debate on the exit strategy for Malaysia and why Pakatan Harapan is calling for a special session of Parliament specifically on the Covid-19 pandemic.
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