An obvious reason for the need of two ministers to be in the Multi Ministry Task Force in tiny teeny wee Singapore is understandable as the pandemic would need the two ministries to coordinate their effort and resources to deal with the problem. Actually more ministries should be in the task force as the problem actually affects the work of many ministries, like Home Affairs, Law, Manpower, Sports etc etc. How many of you think there are other ministries that should also be included?
Maybe should appoint a senior minister or DPM as the Coordinating Minister in charge. This will show to the citizens and the world how serious is Singapore handling this pandemic. One minister is costing at least twice the pay of the President of the USA. 2 ministers will cost 4 times the pay of the President of the USA. 3 will be 6 times the cost. And if one is to understand the philosophy of Singapore, more money means more effective, more quality, then 2 or 3 ministers mean very high quality staff or stuff that would affect the quality of the decisions and the results.
Many people may still be wondering why the need for two ministers when no country in the world would do the same? Perhaps it is the serious nature of the pandemic. So need 2 or 3 ministers to be involved. Perhaps 2 or 3 heads thinking is better than 1 head thinking. Perhaps the ministers are so free, so can afford to have more ministers involved in many affairs since they have time to spare. Oops, just joking, just joking. Actually the ministers are very busy and now overworked, having to be arrowed into multi ministries affairs.
But seriously, with 2/3 ministers, the results really show. See how well they have managed the problem. low number of cases, low number of death, high vaccination rate, can open to allow the people of the world to be here, even from highly infected countries and our numbers for infected cases are still very low. Good value for money.
If Singapore is to get one more minister involved, the results would be even better. No wonder the whole world is praising Singapore for this quality of govt and how Singapore has managed the pandemic. Open legs, ooops, open door policy, Singapore must remain open...to the world, and still manages so low number of infection.
WHO must send a team here to learn from Singapore. One clear recommendation for the world, get at least two ministers to be involved in a special task force.
What do you think?
PS. 910 cases yesterday. The 2,000 target would be reached very soon.
My plan to save Singapore economy from COVID:
ReplyDeleteStep 1: Compulsory vaccination of everybody, all 5.8 million people
Step 2: Infect everybody with the coronavirus - deaths likely low as all were vaccinated
Step 3: Since everybody now got antibodies in their bodies, reopen the economy
Why did miniWhite need to be involved in every aspect of sinkies' life ?
ReplyDeleteOur miniWhites are famous for telling lies, half truth ,massaging data to cover up and look good for political reason, lack of transparency, integrity and honesty just like MiniLee, love to be control as they are paranoid and insecure, and this is their job in eyes of dictatorship, don't need rocket science to see , just look at their imbecile arguments and behaviours in parliament. There are reasons why they are paid millions, to exchange for their dignity and characters.
Whereas the true professionals like doctors generally don't do that as they have to uphold their integrity, and because of that , these doctors keep quiet thinking they didn't lie , it is miniWhites that do. Frankly I didn't think that civil servants are generally bad and they likely dislike the PAP but they have the jobs to keep. But sadly these professionals need to absorb the curse and swearing of the public because they are working for government that is bad and only good at wayang and form, but not substance, a government and opportunist that work like corporation that raid reserve and monies more for themselves.
Do people actually believe this number ? I'm sure this number is much worst . There must be a reason why they shut down online citizen, that they is to save them from further embarrassment of incompetency.
One minister not heavy enough. All light weight.
ReplyDeleteHi 905am
ReplyDeleteIs this not the direction for SG?
ReplyDeleteThe ruling party politicians and MPs are opportunists, political scumbags and lacking in substance ideological hoodlums who try to cover their lack of intelligence and knowledge by passing outrageous remarks on the respectable opposition NMP MPs who outshine them in knowledge, intelligence and logical deliberations and arguments for the good and benefit of blue Singapore Citizens.
Eagles Eyes
@Redbean
ReplyDelete"What do you think?
PS. 910 cases yesterday. The 2,000 target would be reached very soon."
Gd afternoon Uncle Chua,
In economics, what the economy is undergoing since Jan 2020 is generally known as "Supply Shocks" & "Demand Shocks" but with these episodes in waves and more often than not stochastic in nature ...
Botaknomics likely is not an answer and unable to resolve such problems...
Likewise, the macroeconomic policies deployed thus far in many economies are probably unsustainable and likely would lead to many intended and unintended consequences in the coming years .....
It may need someone with deep understanding of the economy and courage to ditch traditional approaches ...?
The current approach of vaccin-nomics may flounder as its efficacy is a function of other factors but policy makers are too slow or unable to act?
At present, it is probably an "open secret" that the decisions to open (or close the "legs" ... Oops economy) may be a function of remaining available hospital beds?
Without the recent addition of (300) beds, the current hospital (COVID-19) "occupancy" rate is probably near the brim?
In other words, the economy may have to tighten or heighten (very soon le) in an open-close legs oops economy repetitive mode till year end or even next year?
A better solution may be possible but it needs policy makers to have very far foresight (to make it work) which may be too late already?
Past policy approaches may not work efficaciously anymore under current pandemics?
Leo81
As mentioned before, two of the roles performed economists are prediction aka forecasting and economic advisory...
ReplyDeleteIn the past one and half years, so far personally have not and need not get embroiled in any panic buying frenzy of toilet papers or any other household items or grocery... Be it CB or HA... Likewise masks too. Got in way before the panic buying sets in...
To save citizens much inconvenience or even agony, policy makers should get ahead of the curves than chasing after them like what some may have witnessed people running after an aeroplane taking off on a runway...?
Worst, some may even try to cling onto it via the wheels etc...? Alas, the outcome is inevitable (and tragic)?
In every wave during this pandemic, some may have noticed the economy is losing portion by portion in terms of the capacity some or many of which the stakeholders took a very, very looooo......oooong time span to build ...?
How many (looooo......oooong) established businesses have the economy lost thus far?
This pandemic has stretched and exposed many weaknesses inherent in the policy of Botaknomics ...?
How looooo......oooong would the indecision teeter before many more businesses have to succumb to ineffective policies, surrender, throw in the towel and call it quit?
Under a crisis situation, it takes a brave mind to bypass obstacles and get ahead of the curve to intercept the problems and stop them in their paths??
Do we have such policy makers spearheading the current fight against all the problems and possible future consequences brought about by this pandemic?
Pace of reopening amid Covid-19 depends on price Singapore is willing to pay, say experts
ReplyDeleteHow Singapore moves forward in dealing and living with Covid-19 depends on the price the country is willing to pay to achieve this.
There is no perfect option and it is a matter of choosing "the best set of trade-offs that we would wish to have", said Associate Professor Hsu Li Yang, an infectious diseases expert at the NUS Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health.
He was one of three panellists at The Straits Times discussion, Living With Covid-19: When And How?, on Thursday (Sept 16).
Prof Hsu said severe illness and deaths will rise as measures ease, but aiming for no deaths means the constraints on society will be extremely high: "We haven't talked about what we might want to accept in terms of the cost of living with Covid-19."
Singapore has close to 75,000 Covid-19 cases, of whom 59 people have died. There are now 77 people seriously ill and 12 in critical condition.
The nation can open up faster if it is willing to accept six or seven deaths a day. It may not be able to do that if it wants to keep the death toll closer to what one sees for influenza, which is two a day, he said.
Professor Ooi Eng Eong of Duke-NUS Medical School said at the discussion that Singapore's ability to keeps deaths to less than 0.1 per cent - when in some countries the rate is as high as 3 per cent - is "extremely remarkable".
As mentioned before, two of the roles performed by economists are prediction aka forecasting and economic advisory...
ReplyDeleteIn the past one and half years, so far personally have not and need not get embroiled in any panic buying frenzy of toilet papers or any other household items or grocery... Be it CB or HA... Likewise masks too. Got in way before the panic buying sets in...
To save citizens much inconvenience or even agony, policy makers should get ahead of the curves than chasing after them like what some may have witnessed people running after an aeroplane taking off on a runway...?
Worst, some may even try to cling onto it via the wheels etc...? Alas, the outcome is inevitable (and tragic)?
In every wave during this pandemic, some may have noticed the economy is losing portion by portion in terms of the capacity some or many of which the stakeholders took a very, very looooo......oooong time span to build ...?
How many (looooo......oooong) established businesses have the economy lost thus far?
This pandemic has stretched and exposed many weaknesses inherent in the policy of Botaknomics ...?
How looooo......oooong would the indecision teeter before many more businesses have to succumb to ineffective policies, surrender, throw in the towel and call it quit?
Under a crisis situation, it takes a brave mind to bypass obstacles and get ahead of the curve to intercept the problems and stop them in their paths??
Do we have such policy makers spearheading the current fight against all the problems and possible future consequences brought about by this pandemic?
Leo81
"Professor Ooi Eng Eong of Duke-NUS Medical School said at the discussion that Singapore's ability to keeps deaths to less than 0.1 per cent - when in some countries the rate is as high as 3 per cent - is "extremely remarkable"."
ReplyDeleteWhy does it take someone like Ooi Eng Eong from medical school to say it remarkable ?
Why not the whole world just follow Singapore and say that most death that has corona and covid has nothing to do with those, problem solved. OH,, must add in some bit of death wayang figure otherwise people suspect. You get the point.
Certainly those experts know who their master is and who they depend on for their high paid and job.
When an elderly person has several medical conditions and died soon after getting a vaccine jab, the cause of death can be attributed to existing medical conditions or to the vaccine.
ReplyDeleteWho is to decide which is which? Both are equally correct.
Both conditions shall be the causes of death. No ethically qualified doctors should decide one over the other because he will never know how the vaccines acted inside the body of the deceased before he/she died. The vaccines probably hasten the death because of the pre-existing medical conditions. The vaccines acted as a catalyst to aggravate or weaken the heart, brain and/or other vital organs, sometimes causing multiple organs failure.
ReplyDeleteAn autopsy can only reveal the resultant conditions not the process of chemical reactions inside the living body before death. Unless, the person who performs the autopsy is highly experienced, very diligent, very determined and has a lot of time to get deep down to establish the TRUTH.
How many mortuary technicians are like that?
Moreover, his superiors may have subtly influence his "findings". Orders may come from very high up.....
If covid can overwhelmed hospital,
ReplyDeleteSurely it can overwhelmed anyplace.logical?