I refer to the comment in the Malaysiakini report Jail those who break their quarantines.

The writer wrote: ‘My current maid has a scheduled rest day on Sundays. She goes to church with us in the morning where she socialises with her friends; she joins us at a local mall for lunch and some window shopping.

‘In the afternoon, she rests in her room - no need to take care of kids or clean the house. I have let her go out with friends on certain public holidays, dropping her off and picking her up as well as giving her pocket money.

‘We treat her as one of the family and provide her everything she needs, often at no expense to her at all.

‘I believe I'm a fair and considerate employer, and I think this arrangement, built on mutual respect and trust, has worked out well for both parties.’

And I say, ‘Oh what hypocrisy, oh, what a devilish attitude you have towards other human beings.

You don’t say how old is your maid is but it seems like you are treating her like a 13-year-old.

So you take her to church with you, do you? How generous of you. Does she get to choose whether she wants to go to church with you?

And then you allow her to go window-shopping and lunch with you at the local mall. No doubt you take your children along with you to and expect you maid to deal with any problems that arise.

‘In the afternoon she rests in her room’. Where she is still potentially under your thumb. Has it ever occurred to you that after living 24 hours a day, seven days a week with you, she might actually want some time for herself?

‘I have to let her go out with friends on certain holidays...dropping her off and picking her up and giving her pocket money’. So generous...and how controlling

And then we come to the final insult and the oh-so-Malaysian touch... money

‘We treat her as one of the family and provide her everything she needs, often at no expense to her at all.