Stethoscope: The end of the year of living dangerously
2020 will be etched in our history as a year of long-awaited ambitions that were profoundly altered by Covid-19. Our vocabulary was supposed to be full of terms like “developed-country status”, “high-income economy” and “towering Malaysians”. Instead, we repeated phrases like “flattening the curve”, “physical distancing” and “movement control order” (MCO). That is because Covid-19 is a national trauma of unprecedented proportions. It will set back Malaysia’s national development, educational achievements and economic growth for years. When the final toll is calculate...