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The Minister of Health's latest obsession against anti-vaxxers is perplexing. It was Khairy,
Adham Baba and Noor Hisham who early in the stage of the pandemic announced vaccine
is not compulsory, but voluntary.
Apparently, the government's interpretation of voluntary is to systematically discriminate
against those refusing vaccine by cutting off access to almost all normal daily needs. It
reached the point of denying non-vaccinated teachers the human rights to make a living
and at the receiving end of open harrassment from superiors and educational authorities,
disallowed access in the school, and restricted them to online teaching.
The government's argument is typical of the one used to justify ISA during Mahathir's era.
It is guised as protecting the health interest of the so-called 90% vaccinated. Its quite a
common Malaysian habit to apply political narrative to non-political matter albeit health.
This seemed more of a failure to communicate to judge from officials preference to being
high-handed than accomodative.
Despite absolute domination on mainstream media, and Facebook cooperated to censure
and deny access to alternative and critical views, MOH also resorted cyberbullying through
their recently cytro operations. Their "spokesman" such as Dr Musa Nordin is offensive and
intimidating in civilised public discourse.
Strangely, it was the MOH Director General, who acknowledged that vaccination is not a
sure protection from contracting Covid 19.
From the information spreading on social media, the perception seemed convincing to
conclude death, allergy and health problem after or arising from vaccination is a common
occurrence despite MOH low statistical claim.
Apart from backlogs, the personal experience of a friend seemed to hint the possibility C-
19 data of MOH is being manipulated.
It came to this blogger's attention of a government hospital refusal, both subtle and
outright, to accept patients facing negative effects of vaccination. It raised suspicion MOH
do not wish to adulterate the shining statistical performance of vaccine in Malaysia.
The experience from the more transparent findings in developed countries being shared on
social media indicate it is not necessarily so. Vaccination approach have failed among the
dedicated early bird country.
Despite shortcomings in the vaccination dedicated approach, the mind control exercise
seemed on course as the once reluctant and hesitant public seemed to creep towards a
mob mentality attitude against anti-vaxxers.
It could be the reason Khairy became bolder to push the limit to publicly request police
take action against anti-vaxxers despite no applicable law, and not budging from his threat
to make life difficult for them.
Even if KJ intended to shoot BN at its feet with his politically incorrect statement, it is
highly inappropriate and improper for any civilised and educated person, let alone a public
official, to resort to such uncouth behaviour and unapologetic about it.
Those refusing vaccine are not necessarily anti-vaxxers. Generally Malaysians do not resist
vaccines and taken vaccines for BCG, smallpox, polio, meningitis for Haj pilgrims, and many
more.
The vaccine hesitants are genuinely concern on the unknown and unexpected negative
effect of experimental vaccine on their commorbidity. Its the mRNA and recombinant
vaccines that is the common concern and they have every right to make a choice.
Is vaccination the right and only successful approach to deal with C-19 that government
had to force on the people, and willing to "sacrifice" life of few citizens and
"compromise" on constitutionally provided civil liberty?
That was not the government attitude on traffic safety that killed more life than C-19 over
longer period of time. Hundreds of millions spent annually towards road safety to ensure
no life even how statistically infinitesimal is spared.
And, it is questions Member of Parliament for Gua Musang, YBM Tengku Tan Sri Razaleigh
Hamzah posed in this long article circulating on social media, below: