COMMENT | Opening daycare centres, crafting our fatalities

COMMENT | Opening up Malaysian schools soon? The young will bring the virus to the old at home. The oldest of the old will suffer the worst.

Malaysia might see a spike in infected Covid-19 a month after May 4. Learn from Singapore too. First, it was okay, then not okay. Is there enough testing done in Malaysia to open up the economy? Are you in the government rushing through under an illusion and a nice numbers game? Let us frame this issue of opening up the economy to how the global economy itself is crashing down.

Young lives at risk

Will children in daycare wear full-bodied suits and masks all day and be forced into cubicles 6X6 feet to ensure maximum safety? Do children in daycare centres know about "physical distancing"? Isn't it better to still keep them at home for now? How do you ensure that caretakers at the centres are not carriers of Covid-19? Are these centres well-monitored to begin with?

O' Malaysians: Why risk the lives of the young (and old too) opening daycare centres now? And schools next, soon?

Children in daycares are the most difficult to take care of without the proper training of caretakers. With Covid-19? Three-quarter of the states in the US have closed schools until the end of the academic year in June. Daycares and pre-kindergartens are especially vulnerable.

The fear is that in a few weeks after May 4, Malaysia will become Singapore. We too have foreign workers, in fact, millions. Malaysian healthcare workers will have a tough time in a few weeks after May 4 following the rush to open. The virus does not care.

In Malaysia, it was reported the virus has mutated into a more dangerous strand. Fast and infectious. And you still want to open on May 4? Think!...