the next three evenings are going to be quite challenging for putting my thoughts down, i reckon, since i have late night webinars. just finished with webinar #1. and then i got some data crunching that i’ve been procrastinating on, so i guess i’ll do that next.
twitterjaya and kawasan sewaktu dengannya continue to buzz with the jump in new case numbers (691, with the prison populations cluster doubling overnight). I’ve said what i needed to say on the science, and prospective policy. today, post-speech, because of that scripted moment of levity, people are making daddy jokes, because we all saw the bdsm and not the abusive parenting. and also, fuck u dude, you’re not my dad (who is dead). you’re my servant. my civil servant.
but his administration has always been marked by equal parts arrogance, and the silence of idols. maybe the lustre’s gone off for many, finally, but today was really quite exemplary. from the incredible rudeness and presumption of cutting into the Ministry of Health’s D-G press briefing, that was not only informative but unlike his political masters, he actually answers questions from the public, to the fact he tried to aim for a bit of lightheartedness after all the buck-passing even as after several days’ lull, we recorded four deaths, including a one-year-old baby girl in Semporna. imagine her parents, knowing what we know about CV-19 fatality protocols. and this pretend idol who’s more fake than Hatsune Miiku has the temerity to joke? And not acknowledge fault?
people are writing karmic cheques their entire person in all dimensions cannot hope to cash, and yet how blithely they go on, because we’re not real to them. we’re barely numbers.
not a single one of them has apologised - not even the one who’s supposed to be a religious scholar. unsurprisingly as well none has resigned either.
stop fucking idolising political figures. they should kiss our feet for even allowing the chance to spend our money and be installed into power. (installed like an external device, or installed like a royal person? you decide as always, they prefer to coast on the confusion. they don’t know their place but that’s because we forgot to remind them.)