Hey guys, welcome back
so many of you have pointed out to me the recent Al Jazeera video about
Locked up in Malaysia's Lockdown and pointed out that it has so many false information
and so this is a topic that's
I'm, really really passionate about because it frustrates me when people point out so many incorrect facts about Malaysia
so I really wanted to react to that video, but I decided
You know what? I'm not going to give any more publicity to Al Jazeera
Like there's no point in doing that. So I discovered that The Other Side of the Truth channel
Which usually reports facts and truths have actually pointed out
Really really important facts about the video. We haven't watched it yet, but we want to react to that video right now
So let's just jump into it
This is a recent video that was published and unfortunately
It has so many mistakes
And so we're going to play the top 15 to cover today number 15 taking videos and footages of police and military
I've got my ID look this is my ID I'm from the press. Yeah, this is lockdown area
But but we're within our rights to report from here
Throughout the entire world
You really can't be taking footage of police and military so many countries that's illegal
Even in the United States if you took video footage of the security around the White House that could get you thrown in jail
Well Al Jazeera thinks that because they're reporters
They're above everybody else. Number 14 complaining that they weren't allowed into high-risk areas of Covid-19
We're not allowed inside these fenced off areas
Now, I don't know if they don't realize how Covid-19 works
It spreads pretty easily
And so if they were able to go into an area that was high risk, they could easily pick up Covid-19
Especially when you look at the video footage and realize that lots of times they weren't wearing a mask
Or they only were wearing a mask. I mean look at how many doctors who were completely prepared had tons of protection
Picked up Covid-19. Number 13 blocking comments. You need to always allow comments
But in this video they've blocked all comments on youtube
You need to allow people to be able to point out when you don't do things that are accurate or when you do things
really biased but if you don't allow comments people can't point those out and I just think as a reporter it's so
Unprofessional to block comments. I really don't think youtube should allow that. Number 12 complaining that the government...
So that in itself shows that you know, they're already not being truthful to themselves
Like a proper reporting channel should embody what they call freedom of speech
Meaning that they should publish, they should allow all voice to be heard
but if they are blocking comments in their own video
That already shows that there's something to hide there's something to hide exactly
I love the point where he talks about they complain that they weren't allowed to hide like risk Covid-19 areas
Yeah, like obviously you're not allowed into that. It's one of the most contagious places right now, and you only want very few
Skilled certified people to be in there and not just anyone especially a reporter. And like he talked about too
Doctors who are supposed to be there who have all the you know
PPE and everything have been around Covid-19 patients and have still caught. Covid. Yeah, exactly
And remember he wasn't even wearing a mask
Which is one of the first most important thing to do in this whole pandemic. The simplest thing to do
Simplest thing to stop the spread. Oh my goodness
Government never restarted several requests to interview the senior minister
home minister and his deputies were declined. All right
Mr. Drew Ambrose. Well, the government's a little bit busy
They're fighting this thing called Covid-19, which is extremely deadly and spread super easy
And sorry, they probably didn't have time to answer every single question you had because they're busy fighting the disease
So please man get off your high horse. Not everybody can take time out of their life to serve you
Right, dude, like have a reality check.
Number 11 forgetting how racism works. Is this the practical reality of dealing with a pandemic?
Or is it racism? Okay, if you're not aware racism was mentioned multiple times in the video
How racism works is where you judge a group of people based on their skin color and in this instance
It would be people of Indian descent or people that look Indian
And if you're not aware, there are multiple Malaysians actually over seven percent of Malaysians are Indian descent
They look exactly like migrant workers that are both legal and illegal
So if the Malaysian government was racist, they would be targeting anybody that looked Indian, Bangladeshi or Pakistani
But the Malaysian government specifically was doing things for illegal immigrants
And anyone that was of Indian descent that was Malaysian
They were fine. They had no complaints. So this is clearly not a racism issue
This is an illegal immigration issue
And those are different things to call it racism is just completely wrong and out of place.
Number 10 ignoring countries that are extremely racist towards their migrant workers
I've traveled all around the world and I have several friends that are migrant workers
and there are several places where I discovered
That people were very racist towards migrant workers and actually
In Malaysia migrant workers are treated better than almost anywhere else in the world
here locals of a different country call legal migrant workers
lazy
messy
unhygienic
Number nine treating illegal migrant workers like they're all victims
Illegal migrant workers have specifically not obeyed the law
And are working illegally even in your own video. You have a human's rights lawyer somebody that really supports
Undocumented legal migrant workers and she points out that this illegal migrant worker didn't do anything
And that she can't really support him because he put in no effort to try to be legal. Okay, did he attempt to
go to the labor department to file a case against this employer?
and throughout this video you often show that they are victims
When they could have just put in some effort to make sure that they obeyed the law and got a working visa.
Number eight saying the jobs that migrant workers are working Malaysians don't want to work
And it's probably true
There are several jobs that Malaysians would prefer that migrant workers did
But in the video you show how there used to be 60 jobs at the market that migrant workers worked
And when they sent out applications they had over 500 Malaysians apply for that job so clearly in this job
Malaysians wanted to work it but their jobs were taken by migrant workers
Mohamed ran a recruitment drive
To replace the foreign workers with locals
500 malaysians applied for just 60 positions
Number seven never acknowledging that illegal migrant workers put the entire country at huge risk for Covid-19
See illegal migrant workers are working illegally. It's in the name and because they're working illegally
They're not registered
the government doesn't even know if they're probably in the country or where they live or who they work for and there's no way to
Track them and so with Covid it's so important to track and trace everybody that gets Covid.
for example
Look at what China did and what Taiwan did and what South Korea did and Japan
All these countries that were extremely good at fighting Covid-19 were able to track
everybody in their country and who had it and who didn't
But when you have four million illegal immigrants
And there's no way to trace them
You're putting your entire country at huge risk and putting this in the video is so important because then people can kind of understand
Why the Malaysian government might be trying to figure out who's illegal in Malaysia
Because it affects the safety of all Malaysians. Number Six
So yeah, that is an
absolutely important point because what we need to understand is
We are a war against Covid and what that video was trying to point out was
how we are treat how poorly we are treating
Illegal immigrants. That's not the point here
The point is we are fighting against Covid
And yes
There are a lot of illegal immigrants and Malaysia for the most part has always
Been known as the country to care for illegal immigrants to do their best
to to even provide shelter provide food and provide so many things for them and so now
They're taking a different course of action. They can't do those things because we are in a different fight
We are fighting against Covid. So we have to take action against people who are undocumented
Who are illegal because this is the only way we can curb the spread of Covid
And if no action is done that is gonna just cost more deaths. It's gonna cost more cases
Yeah, like you said it's a war against Covid it's not a war against illegal migrant workers
It's not like just out of the blue. They're randomly targeting illegal migrant workers
It has a purpose and they're trying to be able to trace back and even it showed in the video
The human rights lawyer is saying like I want to help with this but if you're putting in any effort, yeah
You need to actually help me help you
Yeah, if you think about this like this would have been reported any time way before this.
Why is this being reported right now?
Why are they accusing Malaysia of treating illegal immigrants not the way it's supposed to be
it's because of Covid we are fighting against Covid
And we have to take appropriate action to fight against Covid for the best of everyone
It's a responsibility that Malaysians have remember our phrase
Kita jaga kita (We take care of us)
Sorry guys. I'm just a little
Emotional about this whole topic. So forgive me if I sound really harsh
Acting like sitting in the sun and getting questioned about if you're legally working in
Malaysia is like the worst thing in the world
He says his whole family including his son and daughter were handcuffed and chained together with other children
And the elderly under the hot sun
They were only released hours later after authorities verified their documents
All right right now Covid-19 is happening
There are so many
Children around the world that are losing parents to Covid-19 and are going to be raised without their father or mother
And you are upset that a daughter had to sit out in the sun
I mean if this is the worst thing that happens in your Covid-19 experience
You are very blessed because so many people around the world would give anything to be able to sit out in the sun
A few hours and know that their country is safe
Number five forgetting that everybody is going through a really hard time right now
It's not just the illegal migrant workers or the migrant workers Malaysians as well are going through a hard time
So many Malaysians have lost their job
so many Malaysians are struggling right now and to focus that the only people struggling
Are illegal migrant workers and migrant workers is unfair
Everybody is going through a hard time
Number four being very misleading and not always honest for example handcuffing children
I really don't think this happened. Do you have any footage? Do you have any proof?
Do you have anything more than one or two people saying it happened?
And regardless if children are handcuffed. I mean it's not the end of the day. It doesn't hurt them
Oh big deal. I mean come on. I'm a dentist. I have to treat kids teeth all the time
That's way worse and way more painful than getting handcuffed, but I do it because it's for the good of the kid overall
So just because something's inconvenient or unpleasant
You can't not everybody lives in a fairytale land, but regardless, I think that was pretty inaccurate
You also used multiple selective examples. You purposely picked stories and tried to show things that made Malaysia look bad
I mean you look at the end of the video you purposely pick a mother with a child
Come on, that was set up. You didn't pick a
50 year old man, you picked a mother with a child
Many Malaysians especially doctors and nurses have risked their lives treating
Covid-19 positive patients that were illegal immigrants
These illegal immigrants got free care free food free clothing free toiletries
And everything was provided to them and this makes you wonder how many other things were inaccurate in this video
Number three
So yeah, I want to really talk about the kids issue like handcuffing them first of all
Absolutely, no proof
secondly
I was born and raised in Malaysia and I lived there for 24 years of my life
Malaysia is not a country... I know the people of Malaysia we have bad apples everywhere
There are bad people anywhere you go but it is
Absolutely not part of Malaysian culture to treat children that way. It's absolutely inaccurate
I mean even bringing our own son to Malaysia a couple times now
He is treated so much better so much better even through immigration through all the systems there
You know we had to take him
to
One of the government buildings and he was treated wonderfully like, the priority is placed on the children
Yes the culture and there is a huge culture in Malaysia where priority is given to children and people in need
and so to say that
Oh children were handcuffed show us the proof
Oh, man
and even talks about like people complaining about being in the hot sun like that is such a small concern compared to
Losing your life over this pandemic
If my son my own son had to be sitting in the hot sun
So that hundreds if not, thousands of people can be safe from Covid and not die
So be, it I don't mind. I will put my son out there
Legal and illegal migrant workers. Hey listen to this
And anti-immigration facebook groups have been telling illegal migrants to go home
Did you catch it one word changes the entire structure of the sentence and that's how media can be very misleading
he says
anti-immigration facebook group, but the page he's showing is an
anti-illegal immigration facebook group and there's a big difference between
anti-immigration and anti-illegal immigration.
101 east investigates why so many foreigners are being locked up in Malaysia's lockdown?
Even in the intro summary you got it wrong. You're not investigating foreigners all foreigners
No, you're investigating illegal foreigners. You need to say the word illegal
Number two completely not understanding how you fight Covid-19.
Authorities have been carrying out military style operations across the capitol of Kuala Lumpur
Covid-19 is a time where you need to be strict
You can't allow people moving all around
you need to be very very strict because if one person with Covid-19 moves and goes about
They can easily spread it to so many more people and so Covid-19 is a time
That you need to have a military style lockdown because that's the only thing that works it worked in Taiwan
It worked in Hong Kong, it worked in China
It worked in South Korea, and it also worked in Malaysia
And in this video you make it sound like a military style lockdown is a bad thing
No
That is an amazingly good thing and the USA and many other countries in the Americas
Have not done that and look at the results
Wouldn't you rather have a little bit of a military style lockdown and save thousands of lives?
I think most people would be in favor of that.
Number one never saying the good things about Malaysia
Malaysia is an incredible success story. I would recommend you check out this video or this video. Trust me
They're well done. And the person that made them is pretty cool
anyway, regardless
Malaysia did such an amazing job. I mean
It was amazing to see how people from all different backgrounds famous and average citizens all came together
For the good of Malaysia, and I think that's really important to talk about
In this video when you're going to be talking about Covid-19
And that was completely ignored and completely wrong to ignore that in making this video
So those were my top 15 things there were mistakes in Malaysia's locked up in Malaysia's lockdown video.
Did I miss anything?
Let me know in the comments and don't worry. I will keep comments on and on a personal level
I'm, just really I guess disappointed that a major media source would
Basically make things that were very biased very inaccurate
And not do the proper research and not even really understand how Covid-19 works
Because many of the things that actually help prevent Covid-19
They said were wrong and if you look
At the data and results obviously it's working in Malaysia
It's working in other asian countries and so at a time when people are really suffering and dying
You shouldn't be picking out because some people had to sit out in the sun or were uncomfortable
Let's look at the bigger results lives were saved and if a few people had to be uncomfortable to save a few lives
I think it was definitely worth it
I am so glad The Other Side of the Truth channel actually pointed all these facts out
It could not have done any better job than that
I'm so glad I didn't react to that video I'm reacting to this video because he's done a
Fantastic job, and I really hope this video goes more viral and gets more popular and more views
So what frustrated me so much is that Al Jazeera is
picking out stories
And crafting their own story about how Malaysia is not doing a good job in dealing with illegal immigrants
they're missing the whole point about it is a fight against Covid. Malaysia first and foremost is being
Under-reported about the success in how they fought against Covid
We recently read so much news about how New Zealand and how Korea and Taiwan were doing an amazing job
And I'm so proud actually to say that Malaysia is doing a good if not better job than these countries
Which is awesome and I'm glad that all these countries are doing it
but so clear that Al Jazeera was picking out all the stories so they can they can craft and get
Millions and millions of views on something so controversial when it's actually a lie
Yeah, and it's so crazy. They talk about things like the military lockdown in Malaysia. Like it's the most horrific thing
honestly living here in America right now and seeing people take
shelter in place so lightly people's seeing taking wearing masks in public so lightly I wish there was more
authority taken and I wish there was stronger guidelines in place
because I don't want to stay inside my house for the rest of
our lives. It feels like at this point right? I want to be able to go out
We're watching our friends in Malaysia on Instagram
On Facebook that they're able to go out and eat they're able to go back to work
They're able to do all these things and you know
We're still just sheltering in place here
And what he said was so true
We here live in the us they did not do any sort of strict military style lockdown
And we are suffering because of that. They recently lifted some restrictions and cases shot back up. And so guess what happened?
Everything is closed down again, and we are restricted back again
And we're still going through a shelter in place or an MCO here again
Why because there wasn't a military style lockdown that wasn't strict enough people were going against the rule
So guys it's so frustrating
But I'm so glad there are channels out there like The Other Side of the Truth pointing out the truths in Malaysia
The success story in Malaysia and pointing out the falseness of a news channel like the Al Jazeera's news on Malaysia's lockdown
Thank you so much for joining us today
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