LETTER | WHO, does Covid-19 also attack parliamentary democracy?

LETTER | Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has affirmatively confirmed that in order for parliamentary democracy to be functioning there needs to be herd immunity from the Covid-19 pandemic.

In his 'post-Covid-19 recovery national agenda setting' address, he stated that "once the country has achieved herd immunity, the country’s parliamentary democracy system can begin functioning again".

Now as the World Health Organisation (WHO) dictates terms to countries across the globe on this unified fight against this devastating new corona virus with standard operating procedures (SOPs), or what we now acknowledge as the the 'new normal' and coupled with a range of patented (secret) vaccines that governments are insidiously making compulsory for their citizens, we need to now also seek WHO's clarifications on the following:

• Is Covid-19 also attacking parliamentary democracy so much so that as a 'new normal' procedure, Parliament must also be shut down?
• Must herd immunity be achieved before Parliament can safely resume?
• Is the silently touted vaccination not good enough to ensure parliamentary sittings can convene?
• Is it true that even with vaccination, strict SOPs - wearing face masks, face shields, using hand sanitisers and maintaining social distancing - are still not sufficient to protect parliamentary democracy? 

Hopefully, the WHO experts will help dispel the sporadic confusion in Malaysia which, in all probability, may even spread to other democratic nations if left unchecked.

More worrisome is the Malaysian government's peddling that parliamentary democracy is also infected and affected by this terrible new virus and that it needs herd immunity before it can function normally.

Seems like not only is our health and economy under threat but so, too, is democratic governance.

Over to WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus and his team of experts. 

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