COMMENT | Some other elements of recovery Modified1:40 am - COMMENT | With the extended MCO still proceeding and the resigned acceptance of mounting case numbers, the optimism and stoicism that seemed to accompany last year have been fast deteriorating into open despair and resignation. A lot has been written about the seeming hopelessness, but by and large, what exactly can be done at a grassroots level? Much of the population in the Klang Valley region has been atomised, to borrow Hannah Arendt’s term, sequestered in individual units under the stay-at-home orders, where the prospects for the post-recovery plans feel bleak even after the outlining of new economic plans and continued daily texts from the authorities.