COMMENT | I believe the most important thing we should be doing now is working together on preventing our increasing, unnecessary Covid-19 deaths. There’s work being done on this that will hopefully be shared soon.

The second most important (and deeply interrelated) thing, is to ensure better leadership for Malaysia.

This latest phase of the unending Sheraton Move plunges us back into a political and constitutional crisis, especially after Umno president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi’s announcement yesterday.

Unless someone in Parliament magically succeeds where they have all failed for months, and reaches some sort of parliamentary consensus, then we can expect to be stuck in limbo again. Only this time, political limbo and a leadership vacuum is going to mean more Covid-19 deaths.

Simply put, the first step to escape this death-trap box we are in requires us to think outside the box.

Let’s look at three...