COVID-19 Singapore: The Quick-Fix Solution Is Actually Not A Solution Whatsoever

"No country is safe until every country is safe," so said the Prime Minister of Singapore, once upon a time in the Happy Wonderland of the Little Red Dot.

Recently, our very smart, Paid-by-the-$millions and highly creative Multi-Millionaire Ministers Gan Kim Yong, Ong Ye Kung and Lawrence Wong wrote in an opinion piece with these main points:

1. Our citizens have grown battle-weary after 18 months of weathering the pandemic.

2. All are asking: when and how will the pandemic end?

3. The bad news is that Covid-19 may never go away.

4. The good news is that it is possible to live normally with it in our midst.

5. This means Covid-19 will very likely become endemic.

6. We can’t eradicate it, but we can turn the pandemic into something much less threatening, like influenza, hand, foot-and-mouth disease or chickenpox, and get on with our lives.

7. The authorities will seek to strike a middle path to reopen the economy safely while trying to live with the virus.

This middle path is similar to signing CECA with the Coronavirus. Once bitten, twice feels even better. A brilliant strategy only Singapore's extremely talented Ministers can think of.

The truth is that no one, not even those who think they can outsmart the coronavirus, can turn the COVID-19 Pandemic into something less threatening. The threats will always be there, and growing by the days, if the variants of the coronavirus is not checked, countered or eradicated.

Another truth is that the COVID-19 is not the same as influenza, chicken pox or hand-foot-mouth disease.

Influenza is seasonal and not as deadly as the COVID-19 and there are vaccines effective enough to prevent influenza from making us sick.

We also have an effective vaccine to counter the chickenpox and prevent it from affecting us.

Also, the spread of the hand-foot-mouth disease can be easily contained.

The question, therefore, is whether any other city in the world would take on the extra risks of allowing potential COVID-19 carriers into their countries from Singapore, the city that has given up trying to get rid of Covid-19, and instead wants to live dangerously together with the coronavirus - effectively trying to make friends with the various variants of the contagious coronavirus and willingly providing them a safe sanctuary to further mutate, multiply, proliferate and concurrently spread to the rest of the world, living happily ever after, forever and ever.

This "middle path" solution is not a solution whatsoever. It is not a path but a dead end.

This is the Zenith of Stupidity!



SSO - 9 July 2021.