Retail in a lifeboat situation

Shoppers queuing up at the payment counter with social distance at Pacific Hypermarket & Departmental Store during the second day of MCO in Penang. — Photo: CHAN BOON KAI/The Star

AFTER all this is over, life with its different departments will not be the same again. What we go through is nothing compared with what happened in Wuhan, China, Bergamo, Italy or Spain.

For all intents and purposes, there is no comparison but what is clear is this: there is no such thing as absolute personal liberty, powers nor winners. Mountains and oceans separate us but we belong to this one world.