Life with Rona – Day 12
Caught far too much Ozark before crashing, so awake, breakfast, and it was time for Ping’s morning session. Enjoyed it as always. Calorie wise, burnt the most so far from all these HIIT workouts, so I am getting there, slowly, but surely. Weighed in upon waking up and was pleasantly surprised… I sure hope to reach my goal in April.
We had a pretty big spike in Covid-19 deaths in Malaysia today, but as numbers go, we’re about 1.4% or so in terms of death rates. Another location, this time within the Klang Valley, somewhere in Hulu Langat is on the Extended Movement Control Order (aka a lockdown). Malaysiakini’s Covid-19 coverage has also gone free; has taken them sometime, and again as a subscriber I am happy to see this happen (far too much fake news out there). Incidentally, we had five mosques run on Friday, but you’ll hear nothing of this on social media (joggers in Mont Kiara though, let’s hate on all the “rich” T20s).
I have been watching social media conversations around the hatred for the “T20 group” in Malaysia. It is frankly, appalling. It is clear that many within the T20 also have “foot in mouth disease”. I firmly believe that when empathy stops, disrespect begins. Malaysians need to be more empathetic across all economic statuses; this is something the early Internet users understod, where we never had barriers based on nationality, race, creed, or economic status. We were inclusive. Malaysian need to be Malaysian. In the end, it is clear lack of understanding, so much emphasis placed on “luck” (rich got rich by being lucky not by working; luck always plays a role, but do not assume that there wasn’t hard work there…; the other side is poor are poor by choice — who wants to be poor?), and simply not understanding Parkinson’s Law. It applies to finances just as well — (complete hypothetical follows: when you’re B40, your handbag may be from Bonia, when you’re M40 from Coach and when you’re T20, Prada). There are other examples even from brands of rice! The economy lives on credit, which is again why you have Perodua, Toyota, and Volvo’s.
Anyway, this whole MCO, and the coronavirus is going to cause an economic downturn that many have not lived through. Jobs across all sectors are going to be an issue. I’ve seen SME owners already stating they’re thinking of closing down. This is going to get ugly.
