COMMENT | To put it civilly, what has been happening over the past week can be described as a group of people who can’t even organise an aspirin in a pharmacy; to put it loosely, it could be said that they cannot organise a beer in a brewery.

No disrespect to pharmacists and brewmasters for comparing them to the people behind all the bungles in enforcing the latest round of the movement control order (MCO 3.0) under the Prevention and Control of Infectious Diseases Act 1988 ("the Act") to prevent and curb the spread of Covid-19.

Despite this being the third in 15 months, it appears that the authorities have not learnt from past boo-boos, mistakes and erroneous procedures. This leads to the question of whether the issues go through any thought process before announcements are made.

Without fail and almost on a daily basis, Malaysians are faced with new procedures and regulations, sometimes reversed overnight.

Why does the government keep flip-flopping over issues that benefit the people and stand steadfastly by the ones that bring no benefits and in the process literally pour good money down the drain?

On May 27, the National Covid-19 Immunisation Programme coordinating minister Khairy Jamaluddin announced that members of the public can soon choose the type of vaccine they prefer, Three days later, there was an about-turn.

“We thought about that initially but now the concern is to increase and ramp up the vaccination number. So we will just give whatever (vaccines) we have. If we give them an option, maybe that will slow things down,” he told the media on May 30.

The question to ask is: Was ...