GEORGE TOWN – The reports of rising suicides show that the Perikatan Nasional (PN) government has miserably failed to handle Covid-19, said DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng in a statement today.
He added that the situation would likely worsen over time because federal ministers continue to defy facts and science in the fight against the pandemic.
Everything the PN government has done has failed from enforcing movement control order (MCO) restrictions fairly without fear or favour, to early procurement and securing quick delivery of vaccines, he said.
“There is no public confidence and trust in the PN government’s ability to manage the pandemic.”
Lim said that he was appalled to read that in Penang, a staggering 53 suicides were reported in the five months of this year.
He pointed out that there must be something wrong with the mentality of ministers in “this failed PN government” when Federal Territories Minister Tan Sri Annuar Musa claimed that people no longer fear the virus.
“Is it an indicator that the government has succeeded in managing the pandemic? The whole world, including National Geographic has described Malaysia’s management of the pandemic as a failure with a record number of daily infections and deaths.”
As a result of the failed PN government response, the king had also taken the unprecedented move to call opposition party leaders for a one-to-one discussion on how to deal with the global pandemic, ensuing economic crisis and political instability.
“If the PN ministers continues to defy facts and figures by regarding their management of the pandemic as a success, then the PN government is not only dysfunctional and disconnected from reality, but Malaysia faces a dystopian future bereft of reason.”
In a forum organised by Harakah Daily, Annuar said that the people are not afraid of Covid-19, which means that some think this is not an outbreak.
Such simplistic remarks are not only wrong but a perversion of science and data.
“Malaysians are so frightened by the horrendous 716,847 cumulative infections – and a death toll of 4,721 that is higher than China – that they are desperately seeking vaccines by every means possible,” Lim said in a rebuke towards Annuar.
Since August 23, 2020, 4,596 more Malaysians have died from the PN government’s incompetent and mishandling of the pandemic. – The Vibes, June 25, 2021
