"Singapore reported 30 new community COVID-19 cases as of noon on Friday (May 21), said the Ministry of Health (MOH).
Twenty-two
of the community infections are linked to previous cases, while eight
are currently unlinked. Among them, 17 cases had already been placed on
quarantine earlier, said the ministry."
What the report did not tell us are:
Fact 1: 30 cases, out of which 22 are community infections.
Deduction
1: That means that 8 cases are imported infections. This means that
some airport staff, immigration officers, nurses doing the COVID-19
swaps, airport helpers, airport police, eating places and shops in the
airports, taxi drivers, hotel staff and travel guides may have already
been infected.
Conclusion: Infected persons are still being
imported into the country in order to give the COVID-19 coronavirus
(probably the B1617 series from India and other South Asian states) a
chance to spread in Singapore and create more sufferings for
Singaporeans? This must not be allowed to go on indefinitely. It has
been going on for far too long already. It must be stopped immediately.
Fact 2: 22 community cases, 17 have been placed on quarantine earlier.
Deduction
2: That means 5 of the infected were not quarantined and left free to
roam, to spread the disease in the wider community.
Conclusion:
This means the present safety measures are truly inadequate and needs
urgent fine-tunning immediately. No more dragging the feet.
Fact 3: 22 community cases, out of which 8 are not linked to any existing clusters.
Deduction
3: That means the 8 unlinked cases are not connected to any existing
clusters and, therefore, they could have formed new clusters in other
places that the present faulty detection system is not able to detect.
Conclusion:
A reactive, wait and see monitoring system can never nip the virus in
its track. The best it has been doing is to chase after blue-ass flies.
Recommendation:
It
is high time, the supreme authority of the land comes down to earth and
use more practical and more effective common sense, instead of
listening to the faulty advice of the so-called experts, who are no
experts in this COVID-19 Pandemic whatsoever. They are merely making
educated guesses at best.
LIPS
5/22/2021
COVID-19 Pandemic: Latest Wave Of Infections Is Due To The Stubborn Foolhardy Open-Leg Policy
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The Price Singaporeans Are Paying For Pampering Their Top Leaders With Money
All Singapore scholars and scientists studied too much and, as a result, they have lost their common sense.
They are over-dependent on books, written reports, statistics, advices from higher authorities and generalised global trends.
Over time, they have become pre-programmed robotic machines, without the ability to gut-feel. And even if they have some gut-feelings, they dare not act on them for fear of making mistakes, which may wreck their multi-million dollar jobs.
This is the price Singaporeans are paying for pampering their top leaders with millionaires' pay, turning them into instant multi-millionaires, who are now more afraid of losing that lucrative reward instead of being afraid of citizens sufferings and losing their lives.
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Indians appear mollycoddled in Singapore; and we seem to be functioning under a spell. We can be tough. Eight whites are permanently banned from working in Singapore for failing to keep a safe distance on a boat. Indians however can come in as carriers of Covid 1617. If there is resentment, the reason should not be hard to find. The liberties of some special people are enjoyed at the expense of ourselves, our parents and children. Our pockets run dry. Our reserves ebbing. Our livelihood shattered. Our future uncertain. Special people can always return to motherland. We however can only stay here.
Obviously the airport is the weakest link. Yet, people are still playing with fire. The airport is still opened to all flights without any restriction!
“Preliminary investigations indicate that the initial transmission could have occurred through an airport worker who was assisting a family from South Asia, who arrived in Singapore on 29 Apr and were subsequently found to be positive for COVID-19 through their on-arrival tests.”
Don’t blame the airport worker for being the source. The real source of the Changi Airport cluster is the” South Asian” family he was assisting. It’s extremely disgusting how MOH tried to put the blame on this poor soul.
Actually, in managing COVID, while “super efficient” has spent SG reserve coffer of close to 100 billion SGD, you will still notice that PAP still very “stingy” towards giving patients with “free” cold symptom consultation and examination, because PAP is afraid that polyclinics and govt clinics will be thronged by citizens with mild cold symptoms not related to COVID. This is petty, shallow minded and proven to be doing a disservice to the control of COVID situation just for the sake of worry that citizens will abuse this free service. A lot of times, I read from the news that whatever free service is given, they are quick to say that citizens will abuse the free service. Even the PM has no qualms to label Singaporeans as "Free Riders" in voting!
MTF and Larry, here is your “gold standard” award for importing the B16172 COVID virus from India.
South Asian Flights are arriving every day at Changi Airports as if there is no COVID Pandemic.
The “mutants”, if able to communicate, would’ve said, … that Changi was an absolute “breeze walk in the park”, and "Besides, there are so many available flights and willing passengers falling over themselves ... to help us in!"
So yes, … the “mutants” are here, and free to explore, enjoy and infect Singaporeans and one of these days, the minister's wife, children or grandchildren may be infected too!
The only barrier I see, is PAP's OPEN ARMS AND OPEN LEGS Determined Policy, like the "bo-pian" policy of the hard-up street hookers.
3 cheers for PAP, Hip Hip, HOORAY! Hip Hip HOORAY! Hip Hip, HOORAY!
Conclusion: The Indian B.1.167.2 variant virus is happily on the loose in Singapore.
But the truth is that the coronavirus has no race, religion, nationality or culture. It is the common enemy of humankind.
It is the common enemy of Singapore, whatever its provenance.
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/the-virus-of-racism-must-not-spread-in-singapore
TOC says:
Earlier this month (4 May), Minister Lawrence Wong told Singaporeans at a press briefing that Singapore can’t afford to shut its borders as the country needs migrant workers (ie Work Permit holders) to build homes. He was also trying to explain why Singapore did not close its border to India earlier, even with the record new outbreaks happening there.
“We are small… We need migrant workers to build our homes,” he said. “Some of our housing projects may now be delayed by up to a year or more. So it does come at a considerable cost to Singaporeans,” he added.
However, as noted by CAAS and CAG, the COVID-19 positive travellers who had close contacts with the airport worker on 29 Apr are a family from South Asia. It’s unlikely that they are migrant Work Permit workers.
Migrant Work Permit workers whom Mr Wong was referring to, such as construction workers or domestic workers usually travel alone to Singapore, Furthermore, Work Permit holders are not allowed to bring in their family members as dependants.
On MOM’s website, it specifically said only “eligible Employment Pass (EP) or S Pass (SP) holders can bring certain family members to Singapore on a Dependant’s Pass”. EP needs to earn at least $4,500 a month while SP at least $2,500 a month.
Furthermore, one can see that no work permit holder is accompanied by family members based on MOH’s record of the imported cases for the time period where the airport worker is said to have possibly been infected.
In fact, a cursory check by TOC shows that those who flew directly from South Asia did not compose entirely of migrant workers (a.k.a. work permit holders) only. Many more were students, work pass holders (ie EP & SP cannibalizing PMETs' jobs), dependant’s pass holders, short-term visit pass holders, and Singapore residents.
For example, four days before the the 23 Apr ban on travellers who are long-term and short-term pass holders, and who flew directly from India, many of the infected were not work permit migrant workers:
Infected travellers from India on 19 Apr:
Work Permit – only 1
Student Pass – 1
Work Pass – 3
Dependant’s Pass – 1
Short-Term Visit Pass – 2
Long-Term Visit Pass – 1
PR – 4
Infected travellers from India on 20 Apr:
Work Permit – only 2
Student Pass – 1
Work Pass – 2
Dependant’s Pass – 1
Infected travellers from India on 21 Apr:
Work Permit – 0 (ZERO !)
Student Pass – 1
Work Pass – 2
Dependant’s Pass – 1
Short-Term Visit Pass – 1
PR – 2
Infected travellers from India on 22 Apr:
Work Permit – 3
Student Pass – 2
Work Pass – 2
Dependant’s Pass – 2
Short-Term Visit Pass – 1
PR – 1
It’s not surprising that Minister Wong and MOM only mentioned about the need to open Singapore’s border with India due to the need for migrant workers (ie Work Permit holders) and conveniently omitted mentioning the rest, as usual.
How the India Covid Variant Exposed Britain’s Weaknesses - Bloomberg May 22
Prime Minister Boris Johnson was slow to ban travel to India, even as cases of a dangerous Covid-19 variant in the world’s second most populous country surged. Scientists and advisers now fear the U.K. has exposed its vulnerability, and the question is if the government machine can move fast enough when the next strain arrives.
Officials privately suspect Johnson’s team was reluctant to close the border to travelers from India for political reasons with post-Brexit ties around the world high on the economic agenda. There were also concerns the country didn’t have the infrastructure in place to cope with the sheer number of people wanting to return to the U.K.
The use of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine in children aged 12 to 15 has been assessed to be safe and effective, Singapore's expert committee on COVID-19 vaccination said on Friday (May 21) in response to an open letter by 12 doctors.
The doctors had called for children to be given other types of COVID-19 vaccines - and not the mRNA ones - saying the "long-term side effects are unknown and unstudied" for mRNA vaccines.
- CNA
Economy is always the devil in the minds of the calculative politicians for own political survival instead of national survival. Of course, politicians being political, will pretend to say whatever they do is for national survival. Actually, it is for personal political advantages.
I won't gamble with my children's health and lives by simply taking the words of a few authoritarian "experts" at face value.
The fact is even up to now, only a small percentage of all the Ministers, MPs and top civil savants have taken the Pui-Zer vaccines! Why? To give way to citizens first? I won't buy this tongue-in-cheek excuse. More like wait and see attitude, for personal safety than to really care for the masses, I believe.
According to the Director of Communicable Diseases, this present wave of COVID-19 infections is going to be worse than last year's.
It spreads faster, wider and affects even the children more than before.
It is even more deadly.
Why then are the million dollars PAP workers not working to the high standards laid down as our national foundation by the Pioneers?
Why are they hesitating to take immediate and decisive actions to contain the B1617 infections?
How can the public ever, in the future, trust such indecisive leaders and ex-military generals turned politicians, if there is a war with our neighbours?
Remember mask issue Feb 2020 ?
Coronavirus: Chief medical officer responds to view that everyone should wear a mask to avoid infection (ST Feb 15, 2020)
Wearing a mask is not the most important thing to do to keep the coronavirus at bay, said Associate Professor Kenneth Mak, director of medical services at the Ministry of Health (MOH).
He was responding to questions on the advice circulated by four doctors that everyone should wear a mask when leaving home, regularly wash hands and reduce unnecessary mingling with others - challenging official advice, which is to wear a mask only if sick.
They argued: "If one faces a person and both parties are masked, it is considerably safer, constituting a two-barrier protection."
Asked about this at a press conference on Wednesday (Feb 12), Prof Mak noted that there has been a lot of well-intentioned advice circulated on social media, including from doctors.
Referring to the letter, Prof Mak said that while some advice is very relevant, such as reminders to wash your hands, people must remember that the virus is spread via droplets, with no evidence that it is airborne.
"And be aware of things you commonly touch. The thing most commonly touched is your phone, so wearing a mask is not the most important thing," he said.
Government leaders have been saying that only those who are unwell need to wear a mask, while those who are well need not do so. In fact, as the virus is spread by droplets, keeping hands clean and away from the face are more important ways to avoid catching the bug.
One of the signatories to the letter, Dr Colleen Thomas, an internal medicine specialist in private practice, told The Straits Times that she knows the advice goes against what the MOH has been saying - that only those who are sick should wear masks and those who are well should not, as masks don't give full protection against the virus and may give a false sense of security.
Still, she said the four doctors felt obliged to send out the warning "because the burden of not doing so is too great to bear".
U.S. CDC looking into heart inflammation in some young vaccine recipients (Reuters May 23)
Some teenagers and young adults who received COVID-19 vaccines experienced heart inflammation, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advisory group said, recommending further study of the rare condition.
The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices in a statement dated May 17 said it had looked into reports that a few young vaccine recipients, predominantly adolescents and young adults, and predominantly male, developed myocarditis, an inflammation of the heart muscle.
The CDC said the cases typically occurred within four days after receiving the mRNA vaccines. It did not specify which vaccines. The United States has given emergency authorization to two mRNA vaccines, from Moderna Inc (MRNA.O) and Pfizer/BioNTech (PFE.N), (22UAy.DE).
Israel's Health Ministry in April said it was examining a small number of cases of heart inflammation in people who had received Pfizer's vaccine, though it had not yet drawn any conclusions. Most of the cases in Israel were reported among people up to age 30.
Pfizer at the time said it had not observed a higher rate of the condition than would normally be the case in the general population and that a causal link to the vaccine had not been established.
Earlier this month U.S. regulators expanded authorization of Pfizer and BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine to children aged 12 to 15.
This professor seems to me not very professional. From his own words we can deduce that he is more inclined to be political than to be professional.
His explanation about wearing mask is like a commoner instead of a Health Professional.
Shhh... If it is their own vaccines you can bet there will be little news about the heart inflammation. Of course they will tell everyone they have not drawn any conclusions. They need time to fabricate an excuse. After all, there is the 'no liability' clause to cover their arse hole.
If it is due to a Chinese vaccine, you can also wager that all hell will break loose and WION, BBC and Sky News Australia will be barking day and night about the issue.
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