Thread by @drmusanordin

This is a touching personal account of a Malaysian family living with COVID-19 in the UK.
@rahmahghazali
The family is empowered in the UK
with smart risk communication that enhances knowledge, information and skills. (1)

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We have a technocrat who rattles out numbers and parrots paternalistic nuances daily.

And a condescending politician who barely understands the repercussions of the poorly thought and off the cuff SOPs. (2) theedgemarkets.com/article/confli…

National Health System (NHS) aka MOH offers home testing with rapid test kits.
Our MOH is obsessed with PCR which burdens our labs & only gives delayed results unlike RTK-Ag kits!
I have lobbied for affordable if not free test kits since Mar 2020, but fell on deaf MOH & NSC ears.

Connected cronies supplies, markets & sells masks, PPEs, PCR, RTK-Ag etc & are laughing to the banks?
Backward Contact Tracing is undertaken manually & digitally .
Our cases are contacted by the HCW either after 5-8 days of illness or not at all! The CT system is kaput! (4)

Families r empowered with self responsibility-do self risk assessment- isolates when +CE.
HIDE exposé-86% close contacts d/t +VE cases breaking ISO & enter public spaces & spread the virus.
MySJ failed to alert of these ISO-breakers (5) codeblue.galencentre.org/2020/11/18/mys…

Families were able to observe ISO strictly because they rec appropriate support fr the local authorities.
Their food, medicines, shopping, were grabbed to them & £500 financial aid offered.
What support did you receive fr the authorities whilst trapped in yr homes for 14 days?

The SELangkah app allows the B40s to access a basket of assistance in the form of food supplies, medicines, disinfectants, sanitizers, free tests, financial assistance etc. (7)

You can reschedule your vaccine appointment in the UK according to you convenience.

Our vaccine rollout is like the brutal Fear Factor competition, lacking empathy, compassion and solidarity! (8)

Can we not learn fr the good things that others have done to tame the CoV?
Can we not empower our rakyat instead of being punitive, arrogant & patronizing.
Can we embrace distributive justice & cast a safety social security net to the poor, needy & marginalised community? (9)

Can the scumbags who are criminally profiteering from this pandemic be named and shamed?

Unless we embrace evidence based anti-COVID strategies, we will spiral in a vicious cycle of COVID waves and MCOs (10)

#GodSaveMalaysia
#DemiNegara

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