COVID-19 Singapore: Self-Deception Is The Worst Enemy In Any War

Whether it is Pandemic or Endemic, the fact remains that the COVID-19 coronavirus is still COVID-19 coronavirus. You can change the terminology to anything but the fact remains that the COVID-19 coronavirus does not become less contagious, less infectious, less deadly or less mutatable. By simply changing the nomenclature or terminology, if you expect to be able to live with the coronavirus, you are only deceiving yourself and your fellow countrymen.

To win any war, be it a military confrontation or a pandemic, one needs to know oneself, one's enemy and the environment. In addition, one needs to deceive the enemy instead of deceiving oneself. Self-deception is the worst enemy in any war. One can only fall into self-deception when one does not know oneself, does not know the enemy and does not know the environment - all the three main ingredients of knowledge. It's like a blind man fighting with an invisible ghost in the dark.

Singapore's poorly conceived strategy of "Living with the Coronavirus, like flu", despite numerous warnings by concerned citizens, is a self-deceiving, self-defeating suicidal strategy that is doomed to fail miserably right from the word go. In just three weeks into is commencement, this self-indulgent deception of a strategy that is no strategy, is now revealing its kamikaze suicidal reality, exponentially.

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 Pandemic last January, starting with the ill-conceived advice of "Don't wear a mask if you are well, wear a mask only if you are unwell", there is no shortage of such blunders. At every stage of turning in this Pandemic, whenever the spread of infections subsided, the smart alecs (fools) are quick to rush in to show Singaporeans and the world how smart (foolish) they can be. This is really baffling!

Now, with infections hitting more than 230 per day, and hospital beds getting crowded, the healthcare system is again being challenged and the medical facilities and staff are being over-stressed. The hindsight-dependent Multi-Ministry Task Force (MTF) has no choice but to react in its normal flip-flopping fashion again. Arrogance, stubbornness and foolhardy have no place to stand but must collapse to give way to prudence and propriety.

When will the "Experts Committee" resign instead of hiding behind a stonewall of silence of late, after giving all the un-expert experts' advices to the MTF? Their continuous failures, one after another, is really appalling. They clearly show that the coronavirus is in many ways and many times smarter than their expertise and serious lack of initiative, foresight and professionalism.

The lesson to learn here is that the National Vaccination Program has failed to prevent widespread infections. In fact, it has achieved the reverse. It has proven that those who have been fool-ly vaccinated have been fooled and lulled into a lucid state of Mental Complacency, harbouring a false sense of safety and security, thereby exposing themselves carelessly and needlessly to the COVID-19 coronavirus, and becoming infected and spreading the infection everywhere they go.

Instead of trying to outsmart the COVID-19 coronavirus by mere reactive actions (after closely monitoring), why not, for goodnes sake, start to take proactive actions?

I hope they don't need me to tell them what those proactive actions are.

Can fools ever learn?


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