Tan Kai Jie’s Oral History

• Interviewee is 30 years old and a Chinese Malaysian
• Doctor, medical officer
• Initial reports, news, perceptions and spread of Covid-19 in Malaysia
• Organization of hospitals, urban and rural, across Malaysia in response to Covid-19
• Experience intubating a Covid-19 patient
• Procedures for dealing with Covid patients
• Acquaintance contracting Covid-19
• Mental health of healthcare workers
• Novelty of Covid-19 experience
• Covid-19 as being good for introverted people
• Similarly high workloads before and during the pandemic
• Perceptions of Movement Control Orders [MCO]
• Inequality in the way fines for breaking MCOs punish poorer people
• Underlying political dissatisfaction with the current government
• National disunity and social media echo chambers
• Positive experience of family’s neighbours supporting each other
• New home businesses starting up during the pandemic
• Charitable donations through churches

January 22, 2021

English

Biography 1-2
- Family 10-12
- Friends 9, 23

Communication
- News 4, 17
- Social Media 4, 9, 17, 23

Daily Routine
- Food 9
- Toilet Paper 9

Job
- Essential Workers 10
- Hospital 1-2, 4-8
- Medical Officer 1, 15
- PPE 7-8

Malaysian Government
- Covid-response 2, 17
--- Isolation 3, 5, 9
--- Quarantine 4
--- Screen people 3, 6
- Lockdown 4, 14
- Politicians 18
- Sabah Elections 8

Memory and trauma
- Ebola 3
- MERS-CoV 3
- SARS 3

Mobility during pandemic 18
- Food delivery 14
- Social gatherings 13
--- Church 13, 16, 25

Racial Tension 20-23

Response measures for Covid-19
- Danger of Covid-19
- Fines 18
- Masking up 18
- Movement Control Order (MCO) 16-18, 26
- Vaccine 3

Support
- Business owners 18
- Neighbourly Support 24