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| There are 2. 8 million households in the B40 category comprising approximately 13 million people. These are families with a median income of RM3,000 per month or less.

The lockdown as a result of the movement control order prevents these people from working and from looking for food.There are many old folks’ homes, orphanages and other homes for the infirm and the handicapped.We are in the third week of the MCO, and we do not know what the government has done to ensure that all these people are fed.

The action to contain the spread of the virus and to ensure that hospitals are supplied with drugs, medicines, test kits, ventilators and protective equipment has been good. Health Ministry director-general Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah comes across as a highly competent individual. He is to Malaysia what Anthony Fauci is to the Americans. We are glad to have him. He reassures us that what needs to be done is being done. We appear to be doing well on that front.

The middle-class occupy a different world from the poor. Most of us do not know how poor people live and feed themselves. Most of us do not know of families who subsisted on one meal a day in pre-crisis days. We should rise beyond politics at this time. We should transcend race and religious differences. There is a letter allegedly written by PAS president Hadi Awang, and he has not denied authorship of that letter. It is widely circulated. It was shocking in its display of hostility to non-Muslim Malaysians and would unless rejected raise questions about the government’s attitude towards non-Muslim Malaysians.

This is not the time for the politics of hate and division. This is the time to love and help your neighbours whatever their race, religion or social class.There are concerns about government priorities and policies. There are concerns about whether enough food and financial assistance will reach the people who need it most. The poor come from all communities. Delay in getting food to them only means that people will starve.

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