Our endemic attitudes causing an epidemic

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Road accidents are a non-communicable disease and our endemic 'tidak apa' attitude has a huge impact on our society. FMTNews DrunkDriver

Since then, because of the Covid-19 outbreak, understanding of these epidemiological terms has blown up almost overnight, judging from how these terms are being used on social media.

In the Malaysian health context, a “tidak apa” attitude is endemic among Malaysians. This attitude can be seen across the full spectrum of our lives, from the way we nonchalantly chuck plastic waste out of moving cars, to double-parking or cutting queues everywhere. Since one of the most important parts of a health expert’s job description is to keep people alive and well, we definitely have a stake in ensuring that things be done to bring down the number of RTAs, especially the numbers of deaths and disabilities caused by them.

The issue of drink-driving and the lives that it has claimed has even gained enough political traction that various ministers, including most recently the minister of finance, have commented that the government is considering a maximum 20-year jail sentence and a fine of RM100 000 for drivers guilty of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

Even more sadly, you actually get more than one person discussing how to circumvent the law in their effort to drive home having consumed more than any safe amount of alcohol.

 

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Attitudes, plus a glaringly weak follow thru enforcement on offenders, had created many 'road monsters' amongst us.

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