Life with Rona — Day 37

Up to eating roti telur, then lunch was a huge amount of Chinese food, ordered in (butter prawns, lala soup, glass noodles, claypot tofu, and a yam basket), and dinner was some banana pancakes. I did another Aiman Ox boxing workout which I enjoyed tremendously.

Malaysia’s Covid-19 situation: 5603 total (+71), 3,542 discharged (+90), and death toll is 95 (+2). During the health department press conference, there was talk about how the MCO could not be lifted quickly, but via a soft landing approach. Sure, we know that. But the focus on border controls… a tad annoying.

By 8.20PM (the Prime Minister, late as usual) decided that the MCO would be extended for another 2 weeks. Today I was more active on Twitter long before the announcement because I fear we have no exit strategy and they are just making stuff up as they go along. For one, our tests are dismal, and I’ve also got a bit of an unpopular opinion but we’ve got to be careful of our heroes letting us down. Science is showing random sampling having very low infection rates. We’re seeing next to no useful information coming out of the Health Ministry (contrast with Singapore), and I’m worried about the increasing authoritarian nature of the government. Back to more science and percentages in areas under the EMCO and you wonder what is going on? Comments on Malaysiakini might be the best way to gauge what the people are thinking. And we never had a problem with flattening the curve, if you look at stats again.

Anyway, it is 5am. I just finished work for the day. It is amazing how much the world needs Internet infrastructure now. Catch you later.


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