COMMENT | Dear Prime Minister,

I am not a politician baying to unseat you. But as the rakyat, I am so disgusted with you and your team. Each passing day we are breaking records of Covid-19 infections and casualties. Based on frontliners' testimonies, our health facilities are also facing a disaster.

If the most developed Klang Valley’s health facilities can break down, it is a matter of days before the rest of Malaysia follows suit. We now face the situation of a Covid-19 runaway pandemic. But the news trending now is of a political crisis like never before.

As the prime minister, you have to rise above all these and put the welfare of the people uppermost. Let me offer this advice for your own good. I will clarify later why I am able to do so.

The rulers, politicians or the rakyat cannot unseat you for the time being but the Covid-19 pandemic can and will certainly do; if not now, pretty soon. To avert this situation, you have to completely reverse the Covid-19 measures taken so far and turn them around on their head.

The typical approach so far has been to trace, test, isolate, and treat, coupled with lock-downs. This worked when cases were few and health facilities abundant like in March 2020. This will certainly not work now. What is the point of testing when those positive cannot be isolated and treated? The Malawati Stadium fiasco is self-evident. You bring together patients and their guardians and get them even more infected and sick.

Many positive cases are asked to be home quarantined but frankly, it