The government shouldn't yank fully vax status for people vaxxed with two Sinovac doses and senior citizens who do not get their third jab, as this may increase demand for fraudulent vaccine certs.
The objective of public policy is to produce or gain maximum health for all Malaysians so that the country’s health and wellbeing will improve and reduce health inequalities.
Fixing the health system to put us in readiness for an Omicron surge and other potential new variants is doable; the harder part is addressing the structural and systemic problems, whether it’s urban poverty, our treatment of migrant workers, or prison overcrowding as a result of punitive drug laws.
A few years ago, a woman diagnosed with late-stage breast cancer told me she’d rather embrace death than see her husband and two kids lose their home in their determination to save her.