Two days ago, once-celebrity Health Director-General Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah said the Health Ministry expected the country’s daily Covid-19 to stabilize and show a decline in the next one to two weeks’ time. It was Sunday (July 11) when he made his statement, the day Malaysia reported 9,105 infections, the third consecutive day above the 9,000 mark.
Today (July 13), the same Dr Noor said the Covid-19 cases are expected to increase in a week or two before it stabilizes. Can he make up his mind whether the Coronavirus cases will increase of decline in the next one to two weeks’ time? Exactly how could Dr Noor, supposedly the last man in the government with little integrity left, flip-flops in such a short period of time?
Perhaps he was caught with his pants down over today’s statistic – 11,079 new infections in 24 hours – a new record since the pandemic started last year. He blames increased testing for today’s massive rise in new cases. Did he not know two days ago about the ongoing mass testing or screening? Was he not aware that Selangor and Kuala Lumpur are under EMCO since July 3?
As another 125 people died from Covid-19 and record 972 warded in the ICU (intensive care units) with 456 needed ventilators, the clueless Perikatan Nasional government – consisting primarily of UMNO, Bersatu and PAS – scrambled to cook up more excuses to cover their incompetence and screw-up. Even today, Malawati Stadium in Shah Alam was congested with 4,000 crowds.
The increasingly out-of-touch Dr Noor, thinking he was clever, told the people in the state of Selangor not to only go to the Shah Alam stadium because there are 12 more Covid-19 Assessment Centres (CAC) to choose from. He was quickly slammed. It was not the people’s fault that they were instructed to go to the only CAC in Shah Alam.
Dr Noor was also mocked and ridiculed for forgetting that during the current lockdown, inter-district travel is prohibited. Perhaps the health director-general should start thinking like a professional, and not acts and speaks like a politician. Dr Noor should be reminded that it was he who said in mid-January that it would take 12 weeks for the country to flatten the Covid-19 curve.
Yet, about 24 weeks later today, the situation has become like Covid Apocalypse. From roughly 3,000 daily cases on the day the government imposed half-baked MCO lockdown and Dr Noor said the virus could be defeated within 12 weeks; it has turned for the worse with more than 11,000 daily infections today – almost 4 times more. Not even a State of Emergency could contain the pandemic.
The best part is when Dr Noor lectured the business community days ago that the current MCO 3.0 has helped keep the number of infections down, hence is a huge success, contrary to public opinion. He even warned that without MCO 3.0, the Covid infections could hit 13,000 a day. Now that the daily infections are almost 13,000, he suddenly diverts the blames to increased testing and Delta variant.
But even if it was the increased testing and Delta variant that are wreaking havoc now, why didn’t Dr Noor advice Prime Minister Muhyiddin accordingly? Did he embark on a big scale screening of migrant workers, a promise he made back in April 2020? Did he even know how the Delta spread in the first place? Or has he been sitting on his hands ever since he was awarded “Tan Sri” title on August 17?
To make matters worse, a whopping 204 out of 453 workers at the IDCC Shah Alam vaccine administration centre (PPV) have tested positive for Covid-19, leading to concerns that those who had their jabs at the IDCC PPV between July 9 to July 12 could be infected. This is the first time a mega vaccination centre has been closed due to internal Covid-19 infections.
Still, Vaccine Minister Khairy Jamaluddin could find the opportunity to score some cheap brownie points, claiming it was his quick decision to close the mega centre that saved the day. Astonishingly, only 88% (400 of 453 workers) of workers at the IDCC have been vaccinated. Assuming all the unvaccinated workers are infected, it means 151 vaccinated workers have also been infected.
Khairy should explain not only why 151 inoculated workers are still infected, but also why 53 workers were allowed to work despite knowing they have not gotten their jabs. More importantly, Dr Noor, Khairy and Health Minister Adham Baba should explain – transparently – why the daily infections continue to skyrocket despite the escalating in vaccination.
As Finance Minister Zafrul Aziz tries to figure out how the waves of white flags are linked to a failed government, PM Muhyiddin has suddenly recovered from diarrhoea and bragged – again – about Malaysia’s daily vaccination rate being amongst the highest in the world. Muhyiddin said records showed that an increase in the vaccination rate would bring the number of new cases down.
Expressing confidence that the country will enter Phase-2 of the National Recovery Plan soon, Muhyiddin said – “The steps we have taken are quite effective and I’m confident we will be able to overcome this problem”. Hence, he should explain why daily infections repetitively hit new records, despite having administered record high 421,479 doses of Covid vaccine yesterday.
In what appeared to be a PR exercise, obviously due to his prior knowledge of today’s record breaking Covid cases, Muhyiddin paid a visit to the HTAR (Hospital Tengku Ampuan Rahimah) in Klang today. He pledged to add 151 beds and 15 ventilators. But his visit came only after videos and photos of Covid patients “parked” outside HTAR’s emergency department went viral.
Strangely, the prime minister also said that he has ordered Khairy to purchase any available vaccine. Exactly what happens to Pharmaniaga, the sole concessionaire holder or middleman of drugs and medical supply in the country entrusted to supply Covid-19 vaccines, but was reportedly facing problems with bottling and distribution of 14 million doses of Sinovac vaccine?
Last month, Mr Muhyiddin said his government has completed the purchase and payments for all the vaccines required to achieve herd immunity. So, even if there are some delays, which mean the world is facing a shortage, does it make sense to spend more money to purchase more vaccines when there isn’t any available in the market – unless you’re talking about black market?
Should not Pharmaniaga face penalty for late deliveries or breach of contract if the company fails to fulfil its obligation and commitment? Or will the company get to keep billions of Ringgit without even a slap on the wrist, even though it has failed to deliver, and in the process more taxpayers’ money are quietly siphoned to the same company to buy a new batch of vaccines?
Hilariously, Muhyiddin government today set up a special task force with the objective of making “quick decisions”. So, does that mean the National Security Council (NSC) has been shaking balls all this while? The decision to establish a new task force proves that not only the NSC and all the ministers are useless and clueless, but also that the half-baked lockdowns are no longer effective.
It means the backdoor Perikatan Nasional government has wasted 6 months in various forms of lockdowns since January this year. Didn’t we tell them a half-baked lockdown will not work? Didn’t we tell them mass testing was long overdue? Didn’t we tell them not to allow Ramadan bazaars? Didn’t we tell them not to allow people to travel interstate for Hari Raya celebration?
Like it or not, the virus has spread beyond control. A lockdown is only effective to contain a certain district or states before an outbreak spreads. That’s why the MCO 1.0 introduced last March was effective. Now that the entire nation is infected because of pussyfooting and politicking, a restricted lockdown, let alone a half-baked lockdown, can do very little to fight the pandemic.
The panicked government is running around like a headless chicken now. Everything that they do or say makes very little sense. Thanks to not only its incompetence, but also complacency and arrogance, they have to keep moving the goalpost. They will keep blaming different thing every day – from people violating SOPs to factories to increased testing to Delta variant and whatnot.
Because the Malay-Muslim Perikatan Nasional government plays more racial and religious politics than administers the country and the economy, naturally they underestimated the importance of mass testing and securing vaccines at the early stage. Instead of fixing the root of the problem, Dr Noor chose to do fire-fighting. And now the country is paying the price.
Actually, the government isn’t sure if the newly introduced special task force will be able to do its magic. Without a clear scope of work, it appears the new stunt could be hatched just to show that it is doing something. Exactly what types of “quick decisions” the task force can deliver that the current ministers can’t, especially with the newly appointed deputy Prime Minister Ismail Sabri in charge?
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July 13th, 2021 by financetwitter
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Comment by Mel on July 13, 2021 at 12:55 pm
” If a regime takes the protection of the ruling group’s interests as its top priority, it can never be convincing to the public; then it lacks legitimacy.” Ha ha ha….when 98% of the Chinese gave resounding approval to the CPC for the way China is being managed, isn’t that legitimate ?”
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HISTORY.COM
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The Tiananmen Square protests were student-led demonstrations calling for democracy, free speech and a free press in China. They were halted in a bloody crackdown, known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre, by the Chinese government on June 4 and 5, 1989.
Pro-democracy protesters, mostly students, initially marched through Beijing to Tiananmen Square following the death of Hu Yaobang. Hu, a former Communist Party leader, had worked to introduce democratic reform in China. In mourning Hu, the students called for a more open, democratic government. Eventually thousands of people joined the students in Tiananmen Square, with the protest’s numbers increasing to the tens of thousands by mid-May.
At issue was a frustration with the limits on political freedom in the country—given its one-party form of government, with the Communist Party holding sway—and ongoing economic troubles. Although China’s government had instituted a number of reforms in the 1980s that established a limited form of capitalism in the country, the poor and working-class Chinese still faced significant challenges, including lack of jobs and increased poverty.
The students also argued that China’s educational system did not adequately prepare them for an economic system with elements of free-market capitalism.
In May 1989, nearly a million Chinese, mostly young students, crowded into central Beijing to protest for greater democracy and call for the resignations of Chinese Communist Party leaders deemed too repressive. For nearly three weeks, the protesters kept up daily vigils, and marched and chanted.
Feeling the demonstrations needed to be curtailed, the Chinese government declared martial law on May 20 and 250,000 troops entered Beijing.
On June 4, 1989, however, Chinese troops and security police stormed through Tiananmen Square, firing live rounds indiscriminately into the crowds of protesters. Turmoil ensued, as tens of thousands of the young students tried to escape the rampaging Chinese forces. Other protesters fought back, stoning the attacking troops and overturning and setting fire to military vehicles. Reporters and Western diplomats on the scene estimated that at least 300, and perhaps thousands, of the protesters had been killed and as many as 10,000 were arrested.
The brutal Chinese government assault on the protesters shocked the West and brought denunciations and sanctions from the United States.
The savagery of the Chinese government’s attack shocked both its allies and Cold War enemies. Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declared that he was saddened by the events in China.
The 1989 events at Tiananmen Square have also been highly censored on China’s tightly-controlled internet. According to a survey released in 2019 by the University of Toronto and the University of Hong Kong, more than 3,200 words referencing the massacre had been censored.
The June 4 and 5 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre continue to resonate worldwide. In 1999, the U.S. National Security Archive released Tiananmen Square, 1989: The Declassified History. The document includes U.S. State Department files related to the protests and subsequent military crackdown.
It wasn’t until 2006 that Yu Dongyue, a journalist arrested for throwing paint at a portrait of Mao Zedong in Tiananmen Square during the protests, was released from prison.
On the 20th anniversary of the massacre, the Chinese government prohibited journalists from entering Tiananmen Square and blocked access to foreign news sites and social media. Still, thousands attended a memorial vigil in honor of the anniversary in Hong Kong. Ahead of the 30 anniversary of the event, in 2019, New York-based Human Rights Watch published a report detailing reported arrests in China of those associated with the protests.
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Tiananmen Square “Massacre” happened 32 years ago !
And it wasn’t the massacre that was concocted up by the Western media propaganda in the West’s obsessive campaign to contain the rise of China.
The US had been throwing everything, including the sink, to demonize and to destabilize China in its rabid bid to maintain its hegemonic position.
Nothing is spared in this latest effort…the BIden Administration has drafted The Strategic Competition Act which includes over $650 million to fund foreign militaries in the Indo-Pacific region, some $450 million for the Indo-Pacific Maritime Security Initiative, and another $300 million to counter Chinese influence around the world.
All these AFTER uncle sam had failed in its color revolution in Hong Kong ( ditto in Tibet decades ago ), the Xinjiang ‘genocide’ and ‘concentration camps’, the Xinjiang ‘forced labor’, the Xinjiang ‘sterilization’, the revived conspiracy theory of lab-leaked Covid-19 virus in Wuhan lab ( which will lead to nowhere again, hehe )…and now strutting about bullying in the South China Sea plying right to the very doorstep of China with aircraft carriers, arm-twisting its cowardly allies to bring in warships…gunboat diplomacy ver 2 ? Well, China is not the China of yester year…it now has quite formidable nuclear weapons, that’s the open secret to not being bombed to stone age.
Coming back to the Tiananmen Square ‘Massacre’, do go check out the Wikileaks…stop consuming and staying only in the echo chamber of the western media propaganda. Here’s a good eye opener why the massacre NEVER occurred in Tiananmen Square in 1989 :
“Comment by Mel on July 17, 2021 at 3:02 pm
Tiananmen Square “Massacre” happened 32 years ago !
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And it wasn’t the massacre that was concocted up by the Western media propaganda in the West’s obsessive campaign to contain the rise of China.”
The link you gave – “CBS NEWS: “We saw no bodies, injured people, ambulances or medical personnel — in short, nothing to even suggest, let alone prove, that a “massacre” had occurred in [Tiananmen Square]” — thus wrote CBS News reporter Richard Roth.”
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CBS NEWS is also a Western media but is okay to accept and link their propaganda. Maybe this CBS NEWS fits well into your “No Massacre” narrative. Whether the Tiananmen Square “Massacre” took place or not is debatable, not that I wish to do so. Sorry no. There are already groups who are doing it. So, I am going to leave it at that but not before the quote below –
” Friday, 01 Jun 2007 12:00 AM MYT
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BEIJING (Reuters) – Families of victims of the military crackdown on the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests have urged the Chinese government to publish a true account, apologise and pay compensation to bereaved relatives and survivors.
More than 20 members of the Tiananmen Mothers group described during a roundtable discussion last month how troops shot their children or spouses.
The group rejected the assertion of Hong Kong-based pro-Beijing politician Ma Lik that the crackdown on student-led pro-democracy protests on June 4, 1989, was “not a massacre”.
The Beijing city government at the time put the death toll at more than 200 while insisting that no one died on the square itself. But independent groups have estimated that hundreds, perhaps thousands, died. China has said the crackdown was necessary to put down a counter-revolutionary rebellion. ”
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A repost :
This is the Asian Century. We are looking at the US in the rear view mirror.
China is unstoppable and India too can join in into this new prosperity provided it takes heed of the advice of Kishor Mahbubani, he who wisely told the Indians :
” India should be more mature and should be less petty”.
Not only the Indians spurned this well given, timely advice, but ohh, how they hated him for it. Their unjustifiable pride, their egos, their fragile vanity, their rabid nationalism whipped up by their politicians and their own vicious media, all egged on by the Master Terrorist US of A, would see India forever sniffing at the heels of its Master Manipulator. Check out how India is used by the US as a tool to contain China :
https://worldaffairs.blog/?s=India+as+a+tool+to+contain+china
“But independent groups have estimated that hundreds, perhaps thousands…” From Reuters
Mmm…Reuters. This report was much later after the so-called events in 1989. Who are more credible ? Those Western reporters AT THE SCENE as eye witnesses right from the start to the dispersement of the students PEACEFULLY in the end, in their very own words or those Western reporters like Reuters NOT at the scene reporting much much later ? And btw, ALL these Western reporters, including those eye witnesses of the 4th June 1989 at the Tiananmen Square, had no love for the CPC and would dearly love to smear and bring down the Chinese government.
If you care to read the Wikileaks, again this report was from a WESTERN person by the name of Edward Snowden, there was NO massacre at the Tiananmen Sq..but there were confrontation at a nearby place ON a different day, where clashes happened between the soldiers and the students and other civilians. About 200 were dead from this clash…almost half of whom were soldiers, with some of them stripped, hung and burned ! Now WHO gave these students and civilians the guns and the fire bombs ? Read my lips : C I A
This was the same CIA from the US who smuggled out the ring leaders like Chai Ling to the US after the planned uprising failed. Go watch the interview of Chai Ling…from her own mouth, she lamented that she wished blood would flow ( like a river ) to make more impact but she regretted no such thing happened !
Why would the Chinese government entertain the mothers of these rioters to pay them compensation ? They were lucky that they were not asked to pay compensation instead to the families of the soldiers killed and murdered in such macabre fashion.
Enough said
“Ooops, another stand up comedian.”
Delhi Virus,
With Ketuanan Hindia, Delhi Virus, Delhi Belly, and Ketuanan Diarrhoea, you need sit down and not “stand up”, or maybe squat to delhiver your blessed grace.
At least for those who use the left hand, sarongs, Alhamdulilah, Harry Krishna, and Hurry Potter!
Malaysia is becoming more and more like Hindia bhai the hour.
Malaysia is cranking up Covid infection and death rates to become exactly like another Hindia. If it is cursed like Hindia, Malaysia’s figures would be even higher than Hindia’s. Even when both miserable country keep bogus statistics, and lie like crazy about anything and everything.
Already Malaysia is like Hindia in many ways. Both Hindia and Malaysia are like giant dumps. Both have ultra poor infrastructure. Both have just too much plus plenty of the poor, uncivilised and uncultured.
Both have huge primitive ego. Both have chickenshit “supremacist” mentality, with monkeys thinking they are mistresses of the universe. Both have Stone Age mindset.
Both have utterly corrupt and freaking dumb politicians, talk in great volumes but are incapable of no action. Both have arrogant bragging politicians – who have extremely infantile, petty, and fragile egos.
One country has monkeys who think they are white. The other has monkeys who think they are Arabs. Both spend time and energy on painting themselves white using all sorts of whitening muck.
One country has apartheid in the form of a primitive caste system. There is religious and all sorts of other discrimination. Malaysia’s forte is its racism.
Both country spend valuable decades getting nowhere but backward.
Plenty more depressing similarities, but pressing fears for now, both sh*thole country doing utmost to outdo each other by maxing on Covid infection and death figures.