Hilarious Start To Muhyiddin's Half-Baked National Directive For Social Distancing!!! By UMAR MUKHTAR

Social Distancing

Via WhatsApp : First, don‘t get us wrong. We are always prepared to give a fledgling new government a chance. But if in its first public directive, it fumbles big-time, indicative of its lack of thought and planning over a policy matter, it does take quite a bit of convincing that it is actually a functional unit.

Social distancing was to combat the spread of Covid 19 through close over-crowding, it seems. But tonight over-crowding were at major police stations, ironically created by the need for social distancing. Within hours of the controlled movement directive by Muhyiddin, after his golf game that delayed the telecacast, came the IGP‘s interpretation of the approvals needed from the police in order to cross state boundaries.

You have to fill in a form. What? In these times of on-line everything! We bet the form is not even a legally registered document either! And wait for the police approval. How it is approved is a mystery, like if you need medical necessities etc. maybe? Somebody forgot about the university students who are not from the localities. The universities have told them to get out of their hostels, and yet the police have just told them to get their written permission first.

They were forced to queue and crowd the police stations all over, for hours. If there were Covid 19 virus there, they were having a party there with the crowd at the police stations by courtesy of the IGP! Tempers flared. And a policeman was recorded giving the weary and tired undergraduates a lecture that the purpose of the whole excercise was to reduce close socialising, that they should not go back to their kampungs and spread stuff. Stay where they were, he urged.

He was spot-on, but he was ignorant of the fact that the kids have no place to stay soon, having been asked to go. These are, in fact, the fortunate ones compared to the ones without travelling expenses for such emergency trips. Aha! A Malay government not familiar with Malay poverty! What poor coordination between government agencies that caused the students to suffer. Even the minister of higher learning had to publicly appeal not to be cruel to the students. Finally, at late night the order to fill in the forms were rescinded to the students‘ relief. New orders will be made after a meeting later.

What? You had not known or discuss the consequences of your orders? Wasn‘t there a plan? What a bunch of nincompoops! Anyway, we can bet that a thousand over votes were lost from ‘saliran satu’ tonight! Then, until at the time of writing, there must be a crowd of tens of thousands of Malaysians stranded on the causeway in JB in the rush to be in Singapore, trying to get there before the midnight deadline, and to be there at work tomorrow in order not to lose their cherished jobs. Partying with Covid 19 alright!

The government is still silent as to any inter-governmental understanding as to their being away for two weeks from their jobs. Will it still be there when they come back? Wisely, they dump their government, and decided to be in Singapore tonight, squat at their friends‘ place or as one father of six said, “I will sleep in the five- foot ways for the two weeks if I have to!“. And in all that fiasco there was silence from the government. No cabinet minister even bother to say anything. Like this was happening in another country.

We‘ll let it go this time. But the next fumble will invite hell because it‘s support-the-semburit team again!

Not forgetting his partisan attempt to sideline 5 Pakatan Harapan States from Federal Funding and help!!

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