Dear bloggie,
It been so long since I last blogged, I however felt compelled to blog today as the overwhelming feeling of being unable to do anything but watch as Covid 19 continue to ravage my country.
I feel anger, frustration, scared, worried, disappointed all at the same time. Almost a year ago, when covid started it's rampage, my country Malaysia did the admirable work to keep the 1st wave to a bare minimum. I honestly felt we were going to make thru this without encountering the death march scene in Italy and China.
A long string of fuck ups later, here we are now... +6K cases... Some would say this figure is not so bad compared other countries, but with no light in the end of the tunnel, one can only ponder how bad will go...
We been in WMCO (Whatever MCO) for almost +2 weeks already, and the number shows no sign of subsiding. The country vaccination drive is seriously a landmark of the fuckary that is going on with fuckers in the leadership position. We have a total of 31 million people, and so far only 1.2 million is vaccinated 1 dose, while only 700K is fully vaccinated 2 doses. That's 3%!!!!??
Our neighbour Singapore already hit the 30% mark, while even Indonesia is at 8%. Even Bangladesh is at 5%. One has to wonder why the fuck are we where we are now. Our Science, Technology and Innovation Minister Khairy Jamaluddin was quoted saying,
"Phase 2 is ongoing… Phase 3 is supposed to start in May, but I don't know if we have enough (vaccines) to start.
In Malaysia, (the slow rate of vaccination) is not due to the inefficiency of the vaccination programme. In fact, we scheduled 260,000 appointments in one day.
It's not that we cannot do it fast, but vaccine supply is slow"
We had 1/2 a fucking year to prepare for this and the excuse is not enough supply!!??? Any one with a fucking brain would know Covid is a "world" wide pandemic and this fucker is saying no one in ur whole fucking department is even considered "Hey, when the vaccine is out, the whole world will be rushing to acquire it, would there be enough supply at that time? Maybe we should plan how we can maybe acquire a reasonable chunk for ourself meanwhile".
Instead everything is done as we Malaysian like to call it "relaxlah". We wait for other countries to place some "bets" to avoid the shit we are in at now. It maybe cost less if we wait and see which vaccine has best result and price economically, but at what price? Having a prolonged MCO that would strained the country already battered economy? How much $$$ have we lost due to MCO instead of putting early bets on vaccine? Have any pros and cons been properly weighted for putting some early bets on some of the vaccines? Or has all this vaccine acquiring been done under the attitude of "relaxlah".
Now, with rate of vaccination, the herd immunity goal is only expected to completed in 2027!!!?? 6 years from now!???? I don't know what kind of fucking good excuse you have, but 6 years??? And considering with no stable supply of vaccine due till July (1 fucking month from now), this joker dares to claim we'll be done by end of this year, claiming more supply is expected to come in the next few months. And since this month supply was delayed, what make this joker think the following months supply won't be delayed as well???
Thank god some state govts has decided to go down the commercial route to acquire vaccines. One has to wonder, if the state govts can acquire these vaccine why then isn't the federal govt unable to and claim to '"no supply" instead?
Sad thing is this all could have been avoided. But true to the theme of fuckary leadership, the ruling govt prefer to politik then manage this country properly.
The fire starter, the Sabah 2020 election. Having contained Covid after the 1st MCO, the ones in power in my country decided it time to consolidate their power. "Tak apalah" attitude that ignore what Covid did to China, Italy, and US lead to a stupid election in Sabah in 2020.
Mass rallies, gathering and ceramah were held in Sabah, gathering, a deadly pandemic looming at the forefront of the world forgotten entirely. Unsurprisingly a spike in number of Covid cases occured shortly after the election. This is compounded when moronic idiots infected by Covid at Sabah flew back to West Malaysia and decided to skip the 14 days quarantine stage. The fuckary continues when the morons in power decided not to clam down on mass religious gathering causing the number to spike futher.
In a desperate attempt to quill angry mobs of people outraged by the fuckary that caused the Covid to spike, a CMCO was launch. Conditional as in different ministers say different things on what it is. At the same time US started their mass vaccination after Biden oust Trump (another moronic leader). The vaccine proven to be able to cull the Covid pandemic. Light was finally at sight at the end of the tunnel.
However in my country the number continue to creep up to 4+K. Fearing a higher spike post Chinese New Year another CMCO was held just before it to prevent family gathering and people to visit each other. It managed to push down the cases back to 1-2K range. Yet somehow the cases refused to dip below 1K.
Most people at this point are worn out physically, monetary and mentally by the Covid. Most people already wasn't as cautious as they were when the Covid started it reign of terror a year ago. Instead of reminding the citizen of this country to be cautious as we're so close to start our vaccination drive, the morons in power decided to do absolutely nothing.
A true to form, they did jack shit when Ramadan arrived. Mass gathering at food bazaar was "okaylah" as if Covid would also fast and not spread during this Ramadan. The numbers started to stir again, and it's already a early sign of the inevitable. Then only 1 week before Raya, another WMCO was again held in just 3 states. The mind boggling part, how this WMCO was executed. With the SOP only announce a day before execution, as if it was thought of last minute. The manner and the timing of this WMCO leads me to believe these morons were planning to allow people to celebrate Hari Raya. Just utter fuckary.
Now a week after Raya, the fruits of visiting the bazaar and lax social distancing are bearing their fruits. We today hit the highest number of cases +6K and some medical expert forecasting it could swell till 9K soon.
This whole year was really a fuckup from the morons in power in this country, having no proper planning on what/when/why/who/how todo to keep Covid in check. I used to believe nothing could fix this fucked up country as the rot runs too deep, but I'm blogging how I felt at this very moment as a reminder to myself that I must do what ever I can to fix this rot in leadership in this country. We must NEVER allow this fuckary to occur again!
