Thread by @boosulyn

MPs get all sorts of special exemptions. Covid doesn't distinguish between YBs and rakyat, work and leisure. Only Arau MP gets this. Already, there's a case of a woman who infected four family members in Kelantan upon travelling from Selangor.

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Unlike ordinary citizens who may have to travel interstate for work purposes, like actually contributing to the economy, why does an MP need to balik kawasan during a Covid surge? They can delegate constituency work to staff/ ADUNs. Travelling back every week some more. =.="

MPs allowed to rayau Klang Valley in between their half-day sittings throughout the week before returning to their constituencies across the country. The best preventive step is to minimise movements and interactions, ie: stay in one place as long as you can.

Govt should have mandated all MPs to stay in Klang Valley throughout the entire Parliament meeting till Dec 15. Even if they get infected between fortnightly tests, at least the infections are contained here.

But if MPs are allowed to balik kawasan every week, they can bring the infection from Klang Valley to their state, or vice versa, get infected in their state and bring it to Parliament, and then infect other MPs, who then carry the infection back to other states.

And then, Arau MP's warning of a Parliament cluster may come true. Instead of the simple solution of retaining all MPs in Klang Valley, or better still, Shahidan Kassim's quarantine proposal, govt creates all sorts of restrictions on Dewan proceedings.

I don't know why most people in power still haven't grasped these simple concepts, 11 months into the pandemic. Y'all bending over backwards to carve out special exemptions for yourself through complicated measures, instead of adopting simple solutions for all.