Be positive, don't let the miserable people get in your head

Some people were just born to be negative.

At least that's what I think.

As the country shows it could overcome the Covid-19 crisis, they instead just have to find something negative to highlight.

Come on la, a positive story like this,

Double-digits five days in a row as downward trend in cases continues

and they twisted it into something negative.

Sorry. I rather not highlight such twisted reports here.

But hey, if you are living a miserable life, that does not mean everyone else have to be miserable like you.

I'm not saying that we should be overconfident about the progress so far, but worse than anything is to instill a sense of hopelessness among the people during a crisis like this.

I'm also not saying we should hide bad news. What I'm saying here is that we should not be twisting a positive story into a negative one....or any other type of news manipulation for that matter.

The same goes to the much talked about mistakes by the Health Minister and his deputy in the Covid-19 war.

The whacking of the two guys appeared to intensify as the country was making good progress of containing the pandemic

A whole bunch of people, particularly politicians or politically motivated people had latched on to it to highlight those mistakes, making it as proof of the current government's inability to handle the crisis.

It's a bit of nit-picking, as far as I'm concerned.

Anyway, the minister and his deputy had admitted their mistakes and apologised.

I'm glad that they were willing to do that.

I was also irritated by their mistakes, but felt that they should be forgiven and be allowed to continue with their work.

After all, those mistakes were not fatal. Wrong choice of words and attending a makan session during MCO....I know they shouldn't but not much harm done, I think.

I believe they would also be more careful next time.

A lesson learnt is good.

They probably realised now that it's important to keep the people on their side. Not just for political reasons but also more importantly in this fight against Covid-19.

Hopefully, we could see the end the MCO soon and rebuild our country as soon as possible.

I miss going to work more than anything else. Working from home is definitely not the same.

But, whatever it is, let us be positive as everything happened for a reason (and in my case, Allah's will) and I'm sure something good could be just around the corner if we remain faithful.

Prayers for Singapore too

My beloved just alerted me that there were 728 new Covid-19 cases detected in Singapore over the past 24 hours.

That's really bad for such a small country.

The bulk of new cases were linked to the foreign workers dormitories.

Singapore now have 4,427 cases and 10 deaths. It's ranked just below Malaysia among the worst hit countries.

My beloved and me are very worried as we have family members there.

Nothing much we can do but to pray for their safety.

Hopefully they will abide by the authorities' MCO instructions and advice.

For those of you who don't hate Singapore, please add our friends down there in your prayers.

Thank you.

Try our best and pray...and don't bitch too much (updated)

There are those who believe that people should pray more for the end of this Covid-19 pandemic.

Others think that's stupid as for them science and technology are the only solutions to the crisis.

I'm somewhere in the middle.

I believe that we should pray while utilising science and technology to fight Covid-19.

Well, actually I believe in that for everything.

As I wrote before, I'm not exactly a religious person but I do believe Allah decides everything.

So, whenever I say my prayers, I would ask Allah not to be too hard on myself with the challenges. For me, hopefully, with the prayers, He will decide for something favourable for me after all my efforts

Roughly, that's the concept as I understand it.

At the same time, I also believe that we need to do our best in face of those challenges, and that's where science and technology come into play.

I'm writing this because I'm a bit disturbed reading stuff from both extremes of late.

Those people really should just calm down.

If you believe prayers are better than everything else, go ahead and pray lah at home. I don't think anyone will try to stop you.

But, no need la to talk too much about it as there are others who disagree and find that quite irritating.

And of course, don't argue with the authorities about the closure of mosques and surau,,,,or churches and temples for that matter.

This is Covid-19 crisis, okay.

I'm actually baffled why there's even a need to explain these measures to the more religious types.

And then there were all those repeated notifications about the need to ban Ramadan Bazar.

What's that for har? Just ban it lah. It's so obvious we can't have crowded places like that. Don't worry about upsetting anyone for that, okay.

On the other side, there are those arrogant ones who seemed to enjoy running down religious people and their beliefs.

They lumped everyone religious into a group and ridiculed them all as stupid and backward.

Hey, you believe your science and technology can solve everything and you don't want to believe in God, that's your right, but don't la ridicule others.

If those people want to pray and believe in their God without disturbing you, why do you need to disturb them and calling them names?

Hey, who knows, maybe they are right and you are wrong.

Maybe their prayers for this Covid-19 to end will be answered and you all non-believers may benefit from it too.

What's the harm, right?

I actually first detected this trend of bashing the religious people when the tabligh cluster was first identified.

Even the media is guilty of this.They tried to highlight everything bad about that sort of people.

Even the Health DG had repeatedly advised the public not to blame or scorn the tabligh people because the formation of a Covid-19 cluster could happen to any group of people.

But no, they continued with it.

I remember when the Health DG announced the finding of a cluster originating from a person who came back from Italy but when asked for questions, the first one that the reporters asked was whether there's a new lead on the tabligh cluster and how many more of them have yet to come forward to be screened. It's a repeated daily question up till then.

Well, five in a family died from that Italian cluster. And that's because the person who came back from Italy failed to declare it and exercise self quarantine. The person was in Italy for holiday, not tabligh activity.

Other than that I also sense how some in the media reported with glee whenever a tahfiz was detected as a new Covid-19 cluster source.

I'm not a big fan of tahfiz schools too, but they really shouldn't do that. Just report things as it is la.

No need to add salt and pepper. Bear in mind that some church, temple and atheist people also kena this Covid-19 and infect others, okay.

Whatever it is, I think people should talk less during this Covid-19 lock-down.

Stop creating issues by running down others and their efforts to help fight this pandemic even if that effort is just saying a prayer for this country and all Malaysians.

Yup, the less bitching, the better.


Updates on April 16 2020 at 12:09

Meanwhile, in Thailand, the hospital staff in this video are seen celebrating a group of Tabligh people who were cleared of Covid-19. No prejudice. My respect for them.

 

The real racists and bigots - Part 2

Okay, I know this might be a bit tiresome for some of you but my friend asked me to post these too and I have to do it.

So, that's it.

And I'm not the one who said it this time.

Ya, even a sensible non-Malay/Muslim/Bumiputera got disgusted by those people and their racism.

The real racists and bigots

Today I just want to share these screenshots that my best friend sent me yesterday.

I'm putting them here for my record and as a reminder of what these people really are.

Well, there are more but I think those enough lah kut.

In case you are wondering what they were talking about, please read further,

Medtweetmy 

Buat makluman semua dan buat anda yang baru mengenali dana kami, Tabung #COVID19MTM telah lancarkan pada 22 Mac 2020 bertujuan mengutip dana bagi membantu barisan hadapan menghadapi virus #COVID19. 

Bagi tujuan tersebut, setakat ini kami #MedTweetMY telah melancarkan lima projek utama, 2 projek kerjasama dan beberapa projek khas bagi memaksimumkan bantuan kepada barisan hadapan. 

Bagi Projek Tudung, kami telah menerima banyak sumbangan tudung baru oleh syarikat jenama tudung dan orang persendirian secara percuma. 

Tudung-tudung ini telah diserahkan kepada barisan hadapan yang akan memakainya semasa bekerja, tidak kira wanita atau lelaki, Muslim atau tidak, bagi melindungi kepala mereka dan semasa memakai PPE. 

Wang dana daripada Tabung #COVID19MTM tidak digunakan sama sekali dalam pembelian tudung untuk projek ini. 

Penghantaran tudung ke destinasi hospital dan premis kesihatan serata Malaysia juga menggunakan perkhidmatan #impacttolonghantar bagi memastikan ianya sampai terus kepada barisan hadapan yang sedang berkhidmat untuk negara pada masa ini. 

Untuk makluman, projek ini telah ditutup dan kami tidak lagi membuka sebarang sumbangan atau permintaan. 

Terbaru kami telah mengadakan usahasama dengan ILKBS untuk menghasilkan PPE dan tudung daripada bahan "non-woven". 

Bagi mereka yang ingin melihat perjalanan projek ini, boleh lihat di pautan berikut ;
1. Twitter MedTweetMY https://bit.ly/ProjekTudungCOVID19MTM 
2. Instagram Tabung COVID19MTM https://bit.ly/IGCOVID19MTM 

Diharapkan kenyataan ini dapat menjernihkan persoalan tentang projek tudung Tabung #COVID19MTM. 

Kami menghargai sokongan, sumbangan dan bantuan yang diberikan oleh rakyat Malaysia dalam usaha ini. 

Kami juga ingin mengingatkan bahawa bagi mereka yang ingin mengutarakan permasalahan dan persoalan tentang tabung ini atau mana-mana aktiviti pertubuhan, anda boleh menghantar emel kepada medtweetmyofficial@gmail.com. 

Terima kasih.

A new affirmative action on the card

Looks like the government really have to initiate a new "affirmative action" to help certain people.

That's in light of the Covid-19 pandemic lah.

These certain people have asked the government to save them....or up front, save their businesses.

Their spokesmen spoke everyday for them as I highlighted one in this post,

• Kit Siang's topmost priority if he's PM during Covid-19 war

Well, the government actually listened and obliged when it announced the other day additional assistance in the form of financial aid in the billions of ringgit for them.

As expected, there were complains still.

But never mind lah, it's just the way they are.

Today, it continues, and this time they want a new law to protect themselves,

Malaysia needs to enact a Covid-19 law to help the economy to recover

Fine.

The government would probably listen to that one too and come up with a law that ensure these people will not suffer any losses, possibly none whatsoever, as it looks like that's the only way to satisfy them.

Yeah, all these talks about losing businesses amidst people being scared for their lives.

Well, these people control the economy what, and they need to continue being so. They need to make sure the Covid-19 pandemic wouldn't change that status quo.

Honestly, I don't care if the status quo remains or replaced with a new one after this pandemic is over.

It's not going to change my life whatsoever.

But hopefully these people will remember that they also need the tongkat of "affirmative action" to survive at one time or another.

Hopefully they will learn something from this episode and will not be so arrogant in future.

Just because they have lots of money due to their businesses does not make them superior than others whom they used to condemn as lazy and corrupted and backward and such.

Yeah, hopefully they will learn....at least most of them.

And those high and mighty corporate people should learn from this episode too.

All these while, they live their luxurious lifestyle and proud of their fat salaries, look down on the working class people, thinking that they are immune from all the hardship of the common people....now they know they are not as privileged as they thought they were.

Now they know they can die too and they can be reduced to begging for government aide to survive like those people they look down at all these while.

As for the common people, they are used to hard life, and begging when necessary. They will survive.

Sigh....

I'm actually a bit upset today, that's why I'm writing this.

Actually, I just hate arrogant people who think they are superior than others simply because they have more money and live a more luxurious lifestyle than others.

Never mind.

I'm taking an afternoon nap now. Bored like hell in this confinement.

Ciao.

Luckily, Kit Siang is not our PM

If Kit Siang is our PM now, we would probably not see this,

Please click on image to read more clearly

That's because

• Kit Siang's topmost priority if he's PM during Covid-19 war

would be to save businesses, not lives.

excerpts;

The DAP stalwart said an economic rescue package to bail out the SMEs must be Muhyiddin’s topmost priority now.

He would have in the first place hesitated to impose the movement control order (MCO) which is bad for businesses.

His next door neighbour with five factories would probably complain that an MCO will cause him losses and Kit Siang would listen to him.

"Aiya...few died only what. Still can do business. Why need to shut down everything. Other countries like Canada also not doing MCO yet what."

I can imagine that kind of talks.

I'm not saying saving businesses is not important, but the priority is to save lives and for that this current government got it absolutely right.

Things would be much worse if the MCO was not promptly implemented that day.

That's why I did this posting which I previously never would have thought of doing,

• Muhyiddin is my PM

Again, I have never been a Muhyiddin fan before this Covid-19 war.

That's in case some of you think I'm trying to be cute to the guy.

And I think I got it right when I said in the previous posts that the government is not abandoning anyone in this fight against Covid-19.

That include the businesses.

Yesterday, Muhyiddin announced this,

Special RM10 billion stimulus package for SMEs

But, I bet there will still be complaints of it not being enough.

Ya, that RM10 billion on top of the RM100 billion in loans and guarantees given in previous stimulus package will not be enough for some people.

That's why there are the likes of Kit Siang who think they can do better than this current government.

That despite them having screwed up the government when they were given the chance to prove themselves when voted to power in GE14.

Seriously, I think they should just shut up for now and instead of sounding like stupid start to help the current government in a positive way in this Covid-19 war.

Well, things seemed to look better now as we hang on under this MCO.

InsyaAllah, we will rebuild our country after the war is over.

Stay positive guys.

Cheers.