What ifs.

There's this behaviour on online debates that likes to use appeal to ignorance (argumentum ad ignorantiam) .  I personally do that all the time whenever I troll someone.  Because it's cheap and manupilative and normally shut down the other troll or party.

So here's a troll piece just for fun.  XD

Side note: By no means I am totally dissing our leaders here,  I sincerely think they are doing all they can to alleviate the situation and I'm still grateful for that.  However there are some serious oversight that we can learn and do better.  

What if our leaders(we) did not only listen to WHO but formulate their own defences against covid like Taiwan or South Korea?
What if we don't blindly follow WHO early advice that covid-19 is not a pandemic but treat it as one and issue a temporary ban on China visitors?

What if we don't treat that ban as being xenophobic but as a precaution against spreading the disease?

What if we don't worry about the people hoarding surgical mask and even have a propaganda against wearing it?

What if we trust our people won't hoard the mask by explaining to them that our medical staff needs it as they might be a shortage if this continues on?

What if we quickly find ways to produce our own mask or source for them when China is starting to hoard them in Dec 2019?

What if we listened to NGOs early warnings to us in Jan about the workers dorms and do something about it?

What if we immediately have a shutdown or lockdown when we see huge crowds still gather at Mustafa or shopping centers?

What if we don't come up with a silly name like "Circuit Breaker" and just called is a partial lockdown to communicate to the masses on the dire situation?

What if we don't worry too much about losing too much in an election and plan to have one during the pandemic?  (like we would lose like dat)

and finally,

What if we simply apologise and acknowledge our past mistakes instead of pushing all our responsibilities to WHO or even to the people?  We are, of course the most well paid politicians in the whole world.  ELITES leh.  Tears in parliament are cheap,  human lives are not.

   

P.S BTW.  I actually plan to publish this AFTER the whole covid 19 incident is over but our leaders are simply just asking for it ... lol