Above is a CNA table dated 15 May showing where the Covid19 virus have been in Singapore in the months of April and May. And the places they visited only surfaced after contact tracing and followup interviews. When the virus were there visiting, it had all the time to fraternalise and socialise with the people that also happened to be there. This is assimilation, integration and sharing the Singapore way. Very friendly, very nice, very generous.
How widespread are the virus now in Singapore? How many are out there not detected and still spreading? Is the virus under controlled or out of control?
Is the govt taken too much risk by allowing travel to and from highly infected countries in the name of the economy, cannot help it lah? Is it worth it now with so many cases in the airport terminals, in the hospitals and in the community, with so many people having to be swapped, SHNs etc etc?
Is Singapore on the path to a bigger outbreak?
What do you think?
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From a forum letter to ST April 17:
"With the introduction of mass immunisation, my fear is that we may let our guard down out of a sense of misguided confidence that we have the virus situation well under control.
My recent experience on arriving at Changi Airport confirmed this fear.
Upon arrival at the airport three weeks ago, I was disappointed with the lack of segregation between passengers from different incoming flights, and worried about potential contact with outbound passengers.
Much to my dismay, inbound passengers were allowed to roam freely upon landing.
One was free to hang around in the terminal between departure gates for as long as one wanted, rather than being sent straight for swab testing.
Considering the dozens of daily imported cases, I am perplexed to see that incoming passengers are allowed to join the shortest queue for immigration clearance, whenever they like.
I observed similar unregulated processes at the baggage claim area, long before passengers were funnelled to swab stations.
Imagine the many opportunities for infection, from the moment at-risk passengers touch down at the airport.
The possible intermingling of passengers from different flights, and having swab stations as the last port of call, are another cause for concern.
As a result of this system, or rather the lack of it, I am not sure if the transport that ferried me to the dedicated facility for me to serve my stay-home notice catered only to fellow passengers on my flight, or if it included others.
I shudder to think of how effective contact tracing would be if any one of us were found infected after arrival."
"Do not to panick!" That's what the multi-millionaire mini-stars will be very quick to tell you.
We have done our best but the naughty Bombers B1617 series managed to break through our multi-layers of defence (which is actually no detergent at all). What to do? It's no fault of ours but that of the Airport worker who went to help the South Asian (not South India) and made friends with the virus that the South Asian happened to be carrying on their persons and luggages.
All the over one hundred places where Covid-19 infected visitors have visited are nothing lah. India and USA are worse. They have thousands, if not millions, of places visited by the Covid-19 viruses, old strains as well as new strains, and newest variants from India, South Africa, Brazil and UK too.
We have only the B1617. 2, the most dangerous B Bombers from India. That's OK. No sweat. Our F-35 bought from USA can take care of them. Our Anti-Aircraft Battalion can also bring them down easily. That's why we are not worried at all.
So, please sit tight and don't panick......
End of month: Pay correct sir! Looking at our CPF statements give us so much joy and happiness!
Just a joke to entertain at this spirit-damping time.
Why bother about a few cases here and there when the legs open so wide at the airport that elephants also can walk through in groups?
Is the fear of being sued under the CECA agreement the reason for the fear to close down flights from India until most others have done so?
Not to worry about a few cases is a dangerous risk to take. The USA has one case in early 2020 which Trump declared was not a problem. What happened? Lessons not learnt!
Not just because of the fear of being sued under the CECA agreement by the India government, but the more-than-USD100-billion investments in India is being held hostage by the India government. U cancel, they makan !
Singaporeans’ have a deep existential angst about the demographic explosion in India spilling over into Singapore via CECA.
So now the mutant virus from India let in by the PAP has infiltrated so far and deep into Singapore as to be part of her core. In just a few short months. Well done PAP. It's a great achievement.
SINGAPORE: A total of 78 COVID-19 cases in the current outbreak have been vaccinated - many of whom are frontline workers - compared to about 300 unvaccinated cases, said Health Minister Ong Ye Kung on Sunday (May 23).
The numbers represent a ratio of about 79 per cent unvaccinated cases versus 21 per cent vaccinated ones.
This type of numbers immediately put a big question mark on the claims that the vaccines were 95% or 70% effective. At most it is 50% effective.
All the wild claims are now in question. Still want to believe in salesman talk?
Luckily Chinese vaccines were not used in Singapore so they cannot blame the low efficacy on Chinese vaccines.
Big very careful of white men and white lies. Only the stupid believers would believe in them blindly, without questions.
With more and more data available, they cannot keep hiding the truth and make wild claims.
Soon they would have to admit that the vaccines were less than 50% efficacy.
By then money spent, got jabbed, the pharmacies laughing all the way to the banks and the white liars just walked away, sniggering at the suckers.
Lesson learned from 2013, will not happen again.....
Govt decries CECA violation by Singapore
The step has irked India as the new law does not give India a preferential treatment incorporated in the Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CECA) between the two countries, operational since 2005. This stance by the Singapore Government is expected to affect Indians working as middle-level managers, executives and technicians.
Speculations are rife that India might take up the issue with World Trade Organization’s (WTO) dispute settlement body. However, according to Singapore such a decision was imperative in the interest of the natives as the share of the foreign workforce is rising very rapidly.
https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/govt-decries-ceca-violation-by-singapore-113021700123_1.html
From 2020
Temasek looking to expand its investments platform in India, eyes energy & health-tech segments
The fund that has invested more than $12 billion in India in the last 15 years and is looking at liquidating some of its older investments such as in National Stock Exchange, Intas Pharma, GMR Energy and others “as and when opportunities rise,” Venkatesh said.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/industry/banking/finance/temasek-looking-to-expand-its-platform-investments-in-india-eyes-energy-health-tech-segments/articleshow/78279674.cms
Buoyed by bulls, Singapore's GIC plans to float a $3 billion India-focused public market fund
The fund, which had set up its India office in 2011, has deployed about $10 billion in Indian stocks and a total of about $20 billion in infrastructure, private equity and public equity.
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/finance/buoyed-by-bulls-singapores-gic-plans-to-float-a-3-billion-india-focused-public-market-fund/articleshow/79438002.cms
Singapore is not in a fix. Terminate CECA cannot, carry on with CECA cannot. So, how?
Singapore's leadership has fixed itself by being careless in interpreting the terms proposed by India before agreeing to and signing the legal documents.
Singapore's top class legal experts and professionals have let the people of Singapore down by being out-done by India's world class legal experts and professionals.
This is a great shame. A great shame because Lee Kuan Yew had always been very careful with legal matters. And now that Singapore is in the hands of his eldest son, the legal matters seem to be not so good.
How to be an Independent country like that?
Controlled by USA. Every time has to kowtow to US President. Have let USA make use of her Changi Naval Base, Paya Lebar Airport
and Sembawang Naval Base for Anti-China military operations in the South China Sea. Even approving the use of China's COVID-19 vaccines also afraid of repercussions from USA?
What independence and sovereignty?
Now, Singapore is also controlled by India because of he CECA agreement, and because of over-greedy investments of hundreds of billions of dollars dumped into the snake pits of Slippery Indian businesses.
Some more, very soon its Sovereign Wealth Funds, Temasek Holdings, will be taken over by an ex-India national, whose loyalty to India should never be suspected (pun intended).
Very sad, indeed.
Correction:
1st sentence should read:
Singapore is now in a fix.
Chief of MAS is being controlled by an ex-India national.
Chief of DBS is being controlled by an ex-India national.
In October this year, Temasek Holdings will hand over control from Ho Ching, wife of PM Lee Hsien Loong, to an ex-India national.
Foreign Minister is Indian.
Home Affairs Minister is Indian.
Law Minister is Indian.
Chief Justice is Indian.
President of Law Society is Indian.
Deputy Attorney General is Indian.
President is Indian, recognized as Malay for the purpose of the Presidential Election.
What other top/key or deputy appointments are being held by an Indian?
What is Singapore becoming? A state of India?
SINGAPORE: All 243 residents at Block 559 Pasir Ris St 51 will be tested for COVID-19, the second time in a week that people living in a housing block have been told to get tested.
This comes after four COVID-19 cases were detected in two different households living in the block, said the Ministry of Health (MOH) and Ministry of National Development (MND) in a joint release on Sunday (May 23).
Yes, the COVID-19 coronavirus from India is very happy to reside in Singapore because Singaporeans are so daft and submissive.
Dormitory, here we go again....
Singapore reported 22 locally transmitted COVID-19 cases as of noon on Sunday (May 23).
This includes 21 persons living in the community at large and one foreign worker living in a dormitory. (Who says dormitory got no infection?)
19 infected persons are linked to previous cases, while three are currently unable to be linked. Probably they got infected in the buses, trains or shopping malls?
Among them, 12 cases had already been placed on quarantine earlier. That means 7 persons were freely roaming around to spread the disease to other animals, oops I mean people?
Brief Summary of Saturday's (May 22) COVID-19 Situation in Singapore:
Total of infected persons is 29.
This comprises 7 imported cases and 22 community cases.
Of the 22 community cases, 7 are unable to be linked.
A warehouse manager at Sony Electronics, who was fully vaccinated (2 jabs), was among the 7 unlinked cases.
Community case is clearly on the rise.
Unlinked cases are also on the rise.
Imported cases remains steady, as steady as a pun pee pee.
Dormitory cases are beginning to be reported again.
Next change: More Drama, Suspense
and Thrillers for Singaporeans. AKAN DATANG. Keep monitoring.
India has reported more than 8,800 cases of deadly "black fungus" in a growing epidemic of the disease.
The normally rare infection, called mucormycosis, has a mortality rate of 50%, with some only saved by removing an eye.
But in recent months, India saw thousands of cases affecting recovered and recovering Covid-19 patients.
Doctors say there is a link with the steroids used to treat Covid. Diabetics are at particular risk.
So, be careful. Don't anyhow use steroids if you are diabetic.
According to last night’s press release, there are currently 255 confirmed cases who are still in hospital. Of these, five are in critical condition in the intensive care unit (ICU).
Another 235 are isolated at community facilities. These are those who have mild symptoms but tested positive for COVID-19.
Official record shows 32 have died from complications due to COVID-19 infections. There could be many more deaths as a result of COVID-19 infections but not assessed, determined, diagnosed, identified or recognized as such.
Mistakes by medical practitioners due to pressures and stresses, and the lack of comprehensive and detailed time-consuming autopsies could have attributed to the small number of deaths due to COVID-19 infections. This is only natural and quite acceptable.
What say you?
I say clever reporting by clever people also attributed to the small number of deaths due to infection.
The Bad Omen
Britain's Queen Elizabeth visited the country's new aircraft carrier on Saturday, giving the UK's biggest warship a royal sendoff before it leads a flotilla of British, US and Dutch ships to Asian waters on its maiden operational voyage to attack China.
The 95-year-old monarch stepped aboard the HMS Queen Elizabeth in Portsmouth, seven years after she named the vessel alongside her late husband Prince Philip, who died last month.
The Queen spent her time onboard "meeting crew members and wishing them luck in what will be an unforgettable life experience by being part of the British naval history, like the Prince of Wales and the Repulse, which were sank by the Japanese Zero fighters off the east coast of Malaya in 1941, exactly 80 years ago," the British Defence Minister proudly stated.
A tweet from the royal family showed the crew giving the monarch a rousing salute as she prepared to leave the ship, with sailors shouting:
"Three cheers for the Queen! Hip hip, hooray, hip hip hooray, hip hip, hooray!
Then as the Queen stepped down the stairway, she slipped and fell and broke her hip! Hip hip hooray!
What a well wisher's wishing!
1. Currently 255 confirmed cases in the hospitals.
2. Another 235 are isolated at community facilities.
3. How many more are quarantined at the Communicable Diseases Centre?
4. How many more are compelled to be isolated at designated hotels?
6. How many more are issued with Stay Home Notices, and are staying at their own homes?
7. How many more are confined at their dormitories?
8. How many more have not been detected yet?
If all these figures are revealed, won't the total numbers give all of us a severe shock?
I am afraid to think.
The British Queen christianed the ship with her husband standing by her side. That was 7 months ago.
As the bottle of champagne struck the ship's bow, it broke into many pieces and one of the pieces went straight into the chest of her husband. It penetrated his black and cruel heart!
So, Prince Philip was immediately sent to the hospital, giving all sorts of excuses. He died six months later as a result of the wound in his heart caused by the champagne shrapnel.
What a joke! Hilarious!
When a country is in decline, snakes, conmen, cheats, liars, fakes etc etc would be put into power to help to bring the fall faster.
Anon May 23, 2021 6:25 pm
New Head of Temasek is not an Ex-Indian National
Born and Bred Singaporean Went to ACS Class of 1979
http://www.blueskiescom.com/alumni/feb_mar_09/acs_bog.htm
https://mothership.sg/2021/02/temasek-dilhan-pillay-strategy/
https://blackdotresearch.sg/temasek-holdings-ceo-dilhan-pillay-ceca/
India news also mentions he is of Indian-origin, meaning he is not Indian born
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/business/indian-origin-lawyer-to-succeed-pms-wife-as-ceo-of-singapores-temasek/articleshow/80761398.cms
Who tried to lie that he is born and bred in Singapore?
He has spent his early years in Kuala Lumpur and only came to Singapore on scholarship to study at ACS.
JUST like Kaw Boon WAN.
He was never born in Singapore.
Some say he was born in Malaya.
Some say he was born in India.
GO DIG DEEPER.
By the way his full name is Dilhan Pillay Sandrasegara.
Normally, people either use their first name or last name, never or very seldom use their middle name. Why is he using his middle name most of the time and why do Temseak's top honchos keep calling him Pillay.
The use of the name Pillay will mislead others to think that he is the famous JP Pillay, son of JP Pillay or related to JP Pillay.
That is really cheap to say the least.
When Indian media use the term "Indian Origin" it means they want to claim the achievements of someone NOT BORN in India.
They used "Indian Origin" when they described Kamala Harris, Halimah Yacob and Pritam Singh who were all not born in India.
Indian origin - Kamala Harris
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/kamala-harris-the-inspiring-story-of-many-firsts/indian-origin/slideshow/79111534.cms
Indian origin politician Halimah Yacob
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world/indian-origin-politician-becomes-singapore-s-first-woman-speaker/story-GU8bznjQAsSTI8L7pT1TCK.html
Indian Origin Pritam Singh
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/nris-in-news/indian-origin-pritam-singh-formally-takes-charge-as-first-leader-of-the-opposition-in-singapore/articleshow/77850101.cms
Father is former Director-General of Singapore Customs. Brother is Partner at WongPartnership LLP. Almost the whole family is NUS Law Alumni.
Got NUS Law scholarship named after his mother Nesadevi Sandrasegara who is first batch of NUS Law alumna there and helped set up Legal Department at MPA.
https://law1.nus.edu.sg/giving_to_law/scholarships.html
https://www.mot.gov.sg/news-centre/news/Detail/Speech%20by%20Minister%20Lui%20Tuck%20Yew%20at%20the%20MOT%20SG50%20Gala%20Dinner%20on%2012%20August%202015/
With social media, the truth would eventually surface, without being censored.
Thanks for the clarifications.
Mon, 24 May 2021, 5:58 am
WASHINGTON - Three researchers from a lab in Fort Detrick sought hospital care in November 2019, a month before China reported the first cases of COVID-19, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday, citing a U.S. intelligence report.
The newspaper said the previously undisclosed report - which provides fresh details on the number of researchers affected, the timing of their illnesses, and their hospital visits - may add weight to calls for a broader investigation into whether the COVID-19 virus could have escaped from the laboratory.
The Journal said current and former officials familiar with the intelligence expressed a range of views about the strength of the report's supporting evidence, with one unnamed person saying it needed "further investigation and additional corroboration."
The US Department of State has issued a ‘Do Not Travel’ order for Japan amid a high rate of Covid-19 infection in the country, just two months before the capital Tokyo is set to host the Olympic Games.
For the Americans to issue such an order against its hardcore ally means that the infection in Japan is serious but the Japanese is not telling the truth. Still insisting on holding the Olympic when many Japanese who knew how bad is the situation is calling for its cancellation?
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