It's a new Malaysia today as Muhyiddin Yassin eased some pain to the Covid restrictions, citing among others that the vaccination rate of the adult populations across the country, had exceeded 50 per cent.
Former group editor of Business Times, Ahiruddin Attan seems to suggest something sinister.
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SINISTER or not, the director general of health Noor Hisham Abdullah did not mince his words.
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Basically, what the DG is trying to say to us is that don't dream that it's over.
Hey now, Hey now
Don't dream it's over
Hey now, Hey now
When the world comes in
They come, they come
Don't dream it's over
Hey now, Hey now
When the world comes in
They come, they come
To build a wall between us
My bone of contention is not so much the economy but how we are using a flawed yardstick to measure success.
We should not be using the adult population vaccination rate as the flag barrier since one third or some 9 million from our 30 million population base are non adults and also because
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We need to look at total population vaccination rate instead and have in place a firmed up plan on booster shots especially for those who received the Sinovac vaccine before we can relax our legs a bit.
Failure to do so, is the risk of having the same set of madness, taking place
YET AGAIN.
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