Business groups say the government needs to balance between saving lives and protecting the economy.
“It was anticipated that two million people would lose their jobs and livelihood if the lockdown was imposed,” its national president, Michael Kang, said in a statement today. It also said case studies have shown that a full-blown lockdown is not the solution as it affects the people’s livelihood and merely confines the virus to continue to incubate in the locked-in workers at their dormitories.
The sad truth of the Malaysian market controlled by capitalists. While capitalist bosses live luxuriously, national crisis hit, they cut losses to protect themselves instead of sharing the burden to take care of their workers, threatened the gov of job losses if total lockdown.