26 January 2020

Unless you’ve been living under a rock these past week, the deadly Wuhan coronavirus is the hottest topic and news being debated online right now. As expected, many Malaysians especially the pro-opposition type is going mental about the alleged lack of preventive measures taken by the government to contain the spread of the disease. We are already restricting access for travellers from Wuhan but still man are calling for blanket bank which does not work anyway.

Curious, did u read the whole report? It says most are modelling, not observational & not recommended for pandemic control. Which means, it doesn’t work. https://t.co/lru38LzDhm pic.twitter.com/PwsurQP0HX

— Yoong (@yoongkhean) January 26, 2020

Instead of thinking rationally and trusting the medical professionals at the ministry to do their work, they were quick to be racially prejudiced against Chinese nationals. This is unmistakably the side effect of being racist towards chinese people in general which is usually associated with the DAP party. Imagine if the roles are reversed, a deadly contagious disease is found in Malaysia and citizens of foreign countries started to demand blanket bans on Malaysians from entering their country. Wouldn’t be nice right? Imagine if you a Malaysian, infected by the virus on a flight to some country and instead of getting treatment at arrival, they stop you at the airport and send you back on a 12 hour flight back to Malaysia. Sucks right? So whenever you feel like demanding something stupid against somebody, just think first if that were to happen to you.

To make matters worse, some were quick to associate this virus as a punishment from God against the Chinese government for their treatment of ethnic Xinjiang people. Funny thing is, this virus has already started to affect citizens of Xinjiang themselves so that accusation sounded pretty stupid right about now. You simply cannot associate any diseases or natural disasters within a particular community or state as wrath of God. The Acheh tsunami disaster which killed over 200,000 people struck a particularly religious part of the country. Did the Achenese incur the wrath of God as well?

The Saudi MERS coronavirus caused 375 deaths. No a peep from people to ban Arabs from coming here or any cries to halt hajj and umrah to their cities. Selective discrimination much?