For weeks I have not been able to write anything as I was numbed to my core in regards to the many things that had happened in our country today. Being “isolated and confined” to my home as I was adhering to the nation’s call to “Stay At Home”, I was doing my patriotic duty to the nation and the people of this nation. However, like so many beloved Malaysians out there, I could not help feeling angry and disgusted as the VIPs and "above the law" whatnots are constantly out there breaking the SOPs as Covid-19 numbers climbed and peaked. For the past one week, the affected Covid patients are somewhere in the region of 40,000 people! (in my rough calculations, I can be exact though if I want to, actually ) Imagine this, 40,000 people per week! I am utterly disgusted and disappointed as law abiding citizens DO play their part to stay at home but yet there are some back-door clowns and profoundly sickening of all, flouters who continued to remain happily out there to spread Covid-19. I am not saying this for the hardworking individuals who are out there to eke out a living for their family and put food on the family table but many VIPs who pretended to eat Maggi mee to beg publicity and rake in the sympathy. Poodah!
To me, it is utterly useless to have 1001 MCO’s and whatever COs lah when there is no evidence of a total lockdown. At its best, I could call the present lockdown as a “feeble partial lockdown.” There is just no seriousness in getting this pandemic numbers to go down. It is simple mathematics and pure stupidity to not know where the numbers of affections are and in which economic sectors! Instead of clamping down these sector, you clowns in the authority continue to open the door wider for more infections. These various Covid-19 variants just cannot walk into our country, man. It doesn’t take a genius to figure out that they came from crossing border la…. by carriers through our borders. I charged you, the government authorities for being reckless in allowing these variants to come in to our country due to your lack of governing the borders!
It is sickening enough to know that our hospital ICUs are running at almost full capacity and the strain on our front liners are truly stretching. I could not help but feel sorry for these overworked folks while the people at authority are squandering lives day after day. I shudder at the thought of the doctors having to make a decision on who lives and who dies due to the shortage of ICU beds and spaces. It is a horrifying feeling or gut wrenching decision if it is your father or mother or brother or sister or even a relative lying on the ICU bed which had to be vacated to make way for another needy Covid -19 patient. To me, that is the most terrifying and devastating feeling of all. I can’t help but sympathized with the doctors who had to make such call! Yes, we all have to DIE someday but to let someone else to decide your fate whether you live to fight another day or left to die because of lack of medical facilities can be quite hard to swallow. Don’t you think so?
I am not an idealist when it comes to such matters. Lives matters, ladies and gentleman. We can be careless in our lives, in which we sometimes do and we do tempt fate at times but having someone else make a decision whether we live or not can be real in pandemic times and it sucks big time. That’s devastating. To be honest, I am one who is never fearful for my life and I never will but I do empathized with those who had lost their loved ones or friends. I can only pray that God’s balm of comfort be upon their hearts as they grieved for their loss.
The vaccine roll out is another joke as far as I am concerned. My mom who is 78 years old just got her jab 2 weeks ago. Praise God for that but the wait is way too long. The other thing is that I do see some younger looking folks also lining up to take their shots! It puzzled me if the 70 million ringgit system had “technical glitch” kah when it comes to who should get their vaccine first? I am still puzzled over this matter. Yup, some of these folks don’t look a day older than in their 40’s while older guy like me is still waiting for my 1st vaccine shot appointment.
I am sure if you see people like that having their shots ahead of the elderly ones who may need it earlier, you definitely will have your blood boil too! Interestingly, reports whether we have enough vaccine or not is still a debate. Which is which now? Do we have enough vaccine or not? The debacle in Selangor is sticking up like a sore thumb to our Vaccine Minister at this time while being satirely compared to the Disney character, Pinocchio. We need no further elaboration on Pinocchio as I believe, all 70 ministers in our government are Pinocchios,man! I began to wonder if so much monies had been squandered and swallowed off that if we even have the funds to buy these vaccines in the first places despite assurances from the government that the vaccines had been paid off. What about those vaccines that had been donated by foreign countries to us? I do hope these vaccines got in to the arms of Malaysian citizens! Rightly so, we have to take their word for it! Oh! Btw, all parlimentarians have had their 2 doses! Then it is accounted as 440 shots ( 220 fellas X 2 doses ) plus a few hundreds more for Speakers and Senators and but still cannot convene and meet for Parliament for fear of mass infection and 1001 excuses. They kiasi ( takut mati ) but they think, we, the public are not kiasi ( takut mati )! Niamah! Tunafishmadder!
Then it got me thinking, if you have paid for the damn lot, where the hell is the vaccine then? To me, it is illogical for another department to handle the vaccination roll out when the Ministry of Health or the hospitals units are more than capable in administering these shots. Look at the polio shots, BCG shots etc etc. during our school/younger days. These are run by the hospitals mobile teams and they did it good at schools and community halls all those years. Why are they not being activated to do the same for schools, community halls and rural township mobile units to hasten the vaccination process? It is interesting to note that when you want the people to go and vote in the election, you do know how to transport and get those people to vote, huh? You go to every crook and corner of the rural and urban areas to look for voters and bring them to the voting centres but you will not do the same for this vaccination process? Pelik! Pelik! Pelik!
The other thing I want to touch on is the political stability in this country. The political scene is like a cows trading market these days and I do mean, real cows, the two legged ones! Get your act together, man. This country needs a stabilized government. The welfare of the people needs to be looked after. We need a leader with backbone with good character, honest, morally sound and capable ministers at work. We , the public/rakyat, do NOT wanted washed up, morally corrupt and dirty ministers at work! Until today, I cannot understand why a road tax disc could not be produced despite the MCO but you could get it produces at MyEg, Fatberry or Bijak digital platform! So, these platforms are the higher authority than JPJ now? Interesting,man. Is it so difficult to allow 3 or 4 staffs to work in JPJ office to switch on the computer system and work as usual? Are they going to die if they work in the JPJ office? This is just one example of a government department that had caused much anxiety to the public in general. Look, cow herders, this is the digital age of technology but we are having mentality like a third world country! There is no real concerted effort to find solutions at all in whatever we had to face in this country. Every damn technology means bleeding more monies into the wrong pockets of the crooked policy makers and business community just like exploding handphones and yet to be delivered laptops promises! Sheesh! For crying out loud! Cut the crap and just do your work properly, ministers! Don’t cause any more inconvenience to the general public. I believe, the general public is very fed-up of the ministers antics and whining! Get serious and GET TO WORK!
Not driving around in big and fancy Mercedes doing nothing! That’s what we’ve been shortchanged all these years. The rakyat is suffering and bleeding excessively in terms of finance, physically and mentally! There are people who are in difficulties to pay for food, utilities and even keeping their home afloat. Don’t line your pockets and squeezed dry the coffers as the people suffers further. Test driving new car, flamboyant food parties, buying Mercedes for public office use, flaunting gold and blink blink here and there days and many other “activities” are not the ways leaders should behave. Even if the public forgives you, God would not forgive you for the arrogant show of extravagance and lack of care. How is it attractive to God and the people if you steal from the public coffers, monies from various organisations and monies meant for the future of our country?
Is there no hope in this country? The dark dawn had risen and covered our land but I always believe that there is a silver lining in every storm and dark days ahead. I will not forget the words that will always ring and sound in my mind - “ The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” -Edmund Burke.
I pray that we will see better days ahead. I am optimistic, that's the least I can do.......
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