In a live-streamed press conference yesterday, Top Glove executive director Lim Cheong Guan (left) clarified that only about 3,000 cases out of the 4,036 reported from the Teratai cluster were from their factories and workers’ dormitories – with the remainder being from other factories.
The claim is just that – a claim devoid of details. Even if it is valid, it still won’t disguise the fact that coronavirus infections at Top Glove are rampant and in four figures.
What was indeed discomforting was that he dissed Top Glove’s culpability – and offered the Trumpian excuse. He said the high number of cases was mainly due to increased testing being done at their facilities. Implying that if there was no mass testing, nobody would be any wiser there were so many infections there.
That’s a load of bull! He should realize that the virus is so nimble and swift that he can’t hide Covid-19 for very long, even if he tried.
In Tuesday’s blogpost “Selangor’s Covid-19 Hotspot is Top Glove”, I had already called out Top Glove.
I’m not the only one. Muar MP Syed Saddiq (right) had similarly called out Top Glove: “This cluster existed since November 02 but they never closed the factory” (World of Buzz, November 24, 2020).
In addition to pointing the finger at the company, he urged the government to get Top Glove to pay a one-off windfall tax: “They rake in big profits, abandon employee welfare, practice forced labor. And when the pandemic hit Malaysia, they rake in supernormal profits until it hit the market ceiling price (market cap) as high as RM 77.59 billion (till 15 October)”.
I’m really pissed off with Top Glove. I'm sure many Malaysians are too!
SMK Subang Utama have always been supportive of World Speech Day since we started back in 2019. This year, they had 33 of their students taking part.
One of them, Robyn Grace Leo has kindly come forward with this WSD 2021 promo video:
We are certainly looking forward to these students returning in 2021 and do the same!
#unexpectedvoices #worldspeechday
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