"Those with a moral deficit put on a good show, and sleep like a baby"

- Paul Newman

COMMENT | The prime minister's "joke" about how it may be a good idea for nightclubs and pubs to remain closed because it is difficult to have "social distancing" in these venues points to the kind of religious and moral pandering that goes in this Malay uber alles government.

The punchline, of course, is that Malaysians have been most at risk in this pandemic because of "religious" people who, for some odd reason, believed that they do not owe their fellow citizens a moral obligation when it came to self-quarantining or even reporting their condition to the relevant authorities.

The fact is that religious extremists in this country use any opportunity to further racial and religious divisions in this country. They neither care about the economic impact nor social cohesion...