It’s a shutdown, not a holiday


Street lights illuminate an empty highway in Jalan Bulatan Kampung Pandan in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on Wednesday, March 18, 2020. Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said late Monday that the country will be limiting non-essential businesses operations as well as banning all visitors from entering the country and residents from traveling overseas from March 18 for two weeks. -Bloomberg

MANY Malaysians don’t seem to get it. We are to stay at home, period. Instead, the movement control order has led to many of us hitting the highways to balik kampung.

Some of us have gone on “Cuti Cuti Malaysia” and joined the large crowds at tourist spots, at least, until last week.

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