Dr M is implying the more authoritarian the state, the better a country can deal with killer viruses.
He uses charisma and patriarchy to swoon his audience who foolishly fall under his spell. This audience, as gullible as guppies, thinks a rabid racist and autocrat like Mahathir should be hailed an “international statesman.” It’s bizarrely stupid – as vacuous as the Sunway Medical Centre staff who last Thursday asked Mahathir with blithe ignorance if western liberalism is to blame for Covid-19’s surge in the west.his playbook of clichéd artifices.
In authoritarian Malaysia, police are nabbing Malaysians who “follow” the movement control order – because they are “disciplined” and “obey” the regime’s “directives”. What about the blasé tabligh and Masjid India crowd and several of the current regime’s politicians who spurned the MCO? This is how the US – and Europe – have been managing the crisis. Mahathir must stop his ravenous passion to mislead. He must stop milking the crisis for his venal ends as he becomes more irrelevant even in Malaysia.
Mahathir might be a doctor but he hasn’t practised for half a century. He has a right to his opinion but not the right to intentionally peddle untruths. Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has shown better sense, at least on Covid-19, than Mahathir has in all his time in politics.
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