Thread by @boosulyn

What is the science behind the CMCO in almost the entire peninsula, and Klang Valley extension? What's the incidence rate per state compared to national average? The best way to get ppl back on their feet, in the absence of govt aid, is to lift lockdowns.

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Govt keeps harping on R0 -- how is the R0 derived? And why use nationwide R0 instead of looking at state incidence rates to see which states are really in trouble -- ie: Sabah and Labuan? Even if want to use nationwide R0, what's wrong with 1.0 R0 -- ie: steady transmission?

We can never eliminate Covid -- that should not be our end goal. Malaysia is not an island like NZ, nor do we seemingly have the resources for widespread testing in Singapore, a small population. Covid transmission will continue for months in Malaysia, if not a year. Accept that.

Has our health care capacity been threatened at any time throughout this third Covid wave? Even for Sabah's Covid crisis, fed govt claims the health care system there is still manageable. We still haven't reopened MAEPS in Selangor. So what's the basis for 4-week peninsula CMCO?

Reusing the same methods from earlier waves may not necessarily work. The first MCO could only be used once ever. Claiming CMCO allows the economy to continue is disingenuous. Economy suffers when people don't go out. No additional govt aid to help ppl is fine, just lift CMCO.

And maybe it's time to revise the definitions for the color zones, and shrink the color zones to mukim or even taman, instead of huge districts. >40 cases in a huge district with millions of people is way too low to mark "red".

Essentially, the govt must think local, because this is the nature of Covid. Excessive centralisation harms, instead of helps, the Covid response. Empower state and local authorities to manage Covid, like dengue. Federal can provide oversight and look at bigger picture instead.

Resist the urge to appear on TV every single day for the entire nation to await with bated breath on the latest movement restrictions. Putrajaya's job is to coordinate various local Covid responses and craft mid-term and long-term plans for the nation.

If the fed govt refuses to think outside the box and change decades-old Malaysian practice of dictating policies from Putrajaya, at an extraordinary time like Covid, you will doom the country through an endless cycle of lockdowns. This isn't the time for egos. Think of the people