Consider the sounds of silence in a Covid-ravaged nation

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From Dr Venugopal BalchandThe autobiography of a fictional African leader in the 2005 movie “The Interpreter”, meant to be a clarion call for democracy in a war-torn nation, contains a quotation that leaves us something to think about in Covid-ravaged Malaysia.“The gunfire around us makes it hard to hear. But the human voice is different from other sounds. It can be heard over noises that bury everything else. Even when it is not shouting. Even when it is just a whisper. Even the lowest whisper can be heard over armies when it is telling the truth,” says the quotation.Consider the collective gasp of millions of Malaysians at the scary daily number of Covid patients; the soulful cries of a newly widowed housewife; the shrieking high-pitched sirens of speeding ambulances; the alternating tones of a cardiac defibrillator; the undignified sobs of grown men who have lost their wive…