China battles Covid19 outbreak!!! Wow, this must be very serious. How many cases recorded in this outbreak? 39! What, what, 39? Not 3,900 or 39,000 or 390,000, is there a mistake? 39 is causing such a big alarm? And 39 in one city or in an area as big as Europe? Can anyone picture out what it is like to have 39 cases in the whole of Europe?
In little island like Singapore, having more than 3,000 cases daily and dunno how many more stay at home without being counted, there is no alarm. In a continental size China, 39 cases is so alarming, so big news like China is going to down into another basket case country.
It is true that China is treating this outbreak very seriously. Even one case is one too many in a country that is working to maintain a zero Covid status and China is going all out to prevent further spreading from the 39 cases.
Mass screening, contact tracing, mass testing, lockdown etc etc would be enforced. China is trying its best to nip the problem at the bud. China is showing to the world that it can be done despite the huge borders, land mass and population and the possibility of foreign sabotage, to spread the virus in the country. The first time in Wuhan failed and it would not be allowed to succeed in any other parts of China.
China is well prepared, experienced, and with all the resources and a cooperative people that share the same interest to eradicate the virus from their land.
Many countries have been defeated by this virus and having a few hundred thousand cases or a few tens of thousands of cases as normal, but not China. Not 39 cases or even 1 case is acceptable in China.
Why would other countries be alarmed that China has 39 cases when they are living with thousands of daily cases, when the number of death cases in their countries are many times more than 39 infected cases?
What is the motive or agenda for screaming out loud, for being hysterical over 39 cases?
The MOH reports only focus upon those in the hospitals or clinics and after-care homes. They have never included those infected but not reported to doctors, hospitals or clinics. They have also not included those in the domitories with mild or no symptoms but detected later on by subsequent testings.
ReplyDeleteThis is very confusing and misleading.
The reports do not give the whole picture of the real situation on the ground.
Therefore, the decision-makers make faulty and wrong assumptions and decide on the wrong basis.
That's why they are always chasing after the tail of the Covid-19 coronavirus like blue-ass flies.
Even the official scientific studies and analysis are based on incomplete data.
How can their reports be accurate and true?
See the different in reporting of covid dead. cannot help but interpret it as all dead of yesterday are fully vaccinated. Lot of singaporean have to be educated on how to read info provided from papig
ReplyDeleteToday news about yesterday covid dead:
"The 316th to 329th COVID-19 deaths in Singapore were aged between 60 and 93, all of whom had various underlying medical conditions."
Yesterday news:
"Among the dead were eight men and seven women – all Singaporeans. They were aged between 58 and 100 years old. Among them, the MOH said, eight had been unvaccinated against COVID-19, one had been partially vaccinated and six had been vaccinated. All of them had various underlying medical conditions."
This is sensational news of another kind for such low infections. The world is changing. News is no longer news but pure bull shitting.
ReplyDeleteSensational news about COVID19 conventionally means high infection rates like 400K in India. The world is changing in the way news is classified as news. But that is what the US$300 million a year can do. No surprises there!
This also shows the hypocritical side of the MSM, cherry picking news to make China look bad in any way possible. As China did not produce the required hundreds of thousands of infections, so no fish using prawns also can. Just look for anything to tarnish China and China will collapse.
The doggies must be congratulated for such meaningful reporting. Keep up the good work doggies! Your share of the US$300 million a year is not wasted.
China understand covid don't follow script after all they have best genuine corona experts in the world and they certainly know the seriously of the infection, whereas somewhere in fantasy land, some clowns from a famous clown party laughably discover that covid don't follow script, and endorse whatever experts that play along with them, and failure to contain the virus means declaring the infection as endemic to save face (but a clown is still a clown, no matter what they look like). Why am I surprised ? We have the world's most expensive clowns in the world, so they need to live up to that standard. These clowns are so pragmatic and ignorance that they forget they are dealing with covid not human.
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stabilization phase,
underlying medical conditions,
and on and on from bullshit party
all these invented from the party to hide themselves just like they hide under the law they invented to protect themselves.
Not to mention all the acronyms invented to confuse, like code Green, Orange and Red, plus SHN, VTL, VDS, ART, PCR etc plus the yoyo decisions on dining in like two, up to five, eight also can, then down to five and down to two. Now there is the 'good news' that more opening up is on the cards if the infections go below '1'. Now what the fxxk does this mean?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, the acronym VDS sounds sinister full of stigma, like 'Venereal Disease Screening'. LOL
"Now there is the 'good news' that more opening up is on the cards if the infections go below '1'"
ReplyDeleteIt is defying logic and law of nature, more people more infection, but in this magical land they live opposite because they playing with number. How to achieve infection with "1" ? Simple, just treat all mild cases as non-reported case, only those they say have serious covid infection (of course, they have their way of define what they mean 'serious' just like they define the law), and those die of covid have underlying medical condition, just treat as died from normal case, not covid death nor vaccine.
It is always number game this government is playing, everything and everywhere. If the world believe in this magic land, they should believe elephant can fly.
Will not be surprised if they say that cpf minmium sum need to be raised because some experts say covid prolong life and those infected with covid live longer than 90 years according to some invented theory and script.
They must have engaged good advisors from India. See how India's 400,000 daily cases now magically become 15,000 cases. Same methodology. Soon Singapore would see 20 or 30 daily cases again.
ReplyDeleteThe clever would learn from the clever.
"They must have engaged good advisors from India. See how India's 400,000 daily cases now magically become 15,000 cases. Same methodology. Soon Singapore would see 20 or 30 daily cases again."
ReplyDeletePAP is just as magical with number as well.
Now only PAP is world's most expensive clowns, they are also world most expensive magicians !
Who have been pointing fingers at China for non transparency, for falsifying numbers?
ReplyDeleteWho are falsifying numbers and figures? White men tell no lies? White men are honest, transparent, provide real data?
Who to believe? Who are lying?
Family of 5 gets into a car.
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Goes into a restaurant and splits into 3 tables.
Finishes their meal, and gets into that one car again to go home.
So what happens?
It means we have 2 fewer tables, for others.
And the dining crowd thins out, and the cross infection with other families or non families at other tables also reduces.
Suppose the restaurant has 10 tables.
With dining limit of 2, they take in up to 20 pax at any one time.
And can take 3 families of 5 or 6 split into 3 tables each, and one table of 2.
If they take 5 pax per table from the same families, we would have 10 families with a total of 50 pax.
The cap of dining at 2 is essentially to thin down the density and risk from intense and prolonged mask down activities.
With more people, background noise levels go up, and we speak louder.
[This is also why we don’t allow background music, bcos that forces people to speak louder to be heard across the table. ]
These small restaurants are likely to have split unit aircons which recirculate the air, or even a fan to waft the air and aerosols across the tables.
If socialisation is important, buy home and dine together.
If food is important, then split into the 3 tables or even 8 tables, of 2 each.
If lives are important, then let’s hunker down and hang on together for a while more.
A week on week multiple of new weekly cases at 1.18 means we are seeing an increase of 18% week on week.
If we hadn’t stopped elective surgery, and also converted more beds into ICU beds, we would have over run our ICU capacity.
But more than beds, are our medical staff who are being stretched, to their limits.
So we will continue to add capacity for the just in case, but we don’t have provinces or states nearby who can send us relief teams of medical staff.
We have to survive this on our own - this is the meaning of the lack of strategic depth.
So we can only fall back on our folks working collectively to reduce the chitter chatter with masks down, without or without food or drinks.
We can only fall back on persuading everyone we can to vaccinate.
Don’t believe nonsense that vaccines are the mark of devil, and such rubbish.
Vaccines are a well known method of training our immune system to be stronger, faster and better.
Whether we ride a bicycle along mountain roads, or train with a stationary bicycle, we still build up our stamina, our leg power, and our endurance.
Training on a stationary bike, we have less risk of a road accident or a fall into treacherous terrain in the mountains.
In the same way, vaccines train our body the same way as an infection would activate and train our immune system to be ready for the next load of virus we meet.
With vaccination, we still get our body to go through its natural process of working up its multiple layers of defence forces.
With vaccination, we can train our body to strengthen its immune system, to fight an infection faster and better, and perhaps even to prevent infection.
With infection, we could achieve something similar, but with more variable outcomes.
Sometimes, we are infected by a small load of virus, and our immune system is not very well trained.
Sometimes, we are infected by a big dose of virus by a fast talking dining partner.
True, we will likely get a stronger immune system if we can fight and win over this big load of virus coming at us.
But in the process, we may be overwhelmed and get very sick or die.
It’s like falling off our bikes in the mountains - lucky if we fall into a soft patch of grass, unluck if we fall into a ravine.
So getting vaccinated is just giving our immune system a training course, to be stronger, faster and better at fighting the actual virus.
ReplyDelete"We can only fall back on persuading everyone we can to vaccinate." said Ho Ching.
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No, not correct. We don't need "to ONLY fall back on persuading everyone we can."
All we have to do is to get the MTF or the Prime Minister to declare that "Vaccination Is Compulsory!"
Why make it VOLUNTARY and then when the old folks volunteered NOT to be vaccinated, then some people get uptight and unhappy and then device ways and means, on top of persuasion, to coerce and force the unvaccinated to go and get vaccinated. Why use the around about way to scratch your ear from the back of your head, when you can easily scratch your ear directly, and straight forwardly, from the front?
Unless there is something about the vaccines being applied/used? That's why the government provides Financial Assistance for those who have suffered as a result of the effects of the vaccines.
That's why the government is afraid or reluctant to declare Vaccination compulsory, is it not?
If that is the case, i.e. if vaccines have problems, then by going around to persuade people to get vaccinated, are you not doing a disservice to the people?
If vaccines have no problems, and you are confident about that, then simply declare "Vaccination Is Compulsory". Period.
Vaccinated travellers from Australia, Switzerland can enter S'pore without quarantine from Nov 8
ReplyDeleteVaccinated travellers from Australia and Switzerland will be able to enter Singapore without quarantine from Nov 8, as the Republic further expands a scheme to reopen its borders to vaccinated travellers.
The addition of Australia to Singapore's Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) scheme means Australian residents can enjoy two-way quarantine-free travel between the two countries from Nov 8, while reciprocal arrangements for student and business pass holders from Singapore are expected to be in place by Nov 23.
Switzerland has already opened to its borders to all travellers from Singapore. Thus, the expansion of the VTL scheme to include Switzerland means that Singapore residents will be able to fly to these countries and return without having to quarantine in either country.
However, Singapore residents looking to head to Australia for leisure travel have to wait a bit longer for a two-way trip without quarantine, which Canberra has said could be in place by December.
Transport Minister S. Iswaran, who announced the new VTLs during a virtual media interview on Tuesday (Oct 26), said it is important that Singapore perseveres with efforts to reopen its borders and rebuild its status as an aviation hub.
He noted that both countries have strong economic ties to Singapore, and added that both countries have Covid-19 incidence rates similar or lower than that of Singapore and the other VTL countries.
He added that Singapore is in discussions with several other countries, including its neighbours, on launching more VTLs.
Mr Iswaran added that the current VTL quota of 3,000 travellers daily will be increased to 4,000 daily with the announcement of the two new VTLs.
The VTLs let vaccinated travellers enter Singapore without having to serve stay-home notices. Instead, they will take a Covid-19 swab test before departure and after arrival in Singapore.
The Republic has thus far announced 11 VTLs. 10 of the VTLs, including those with the United States and Britain, have already started, while the last one for South Korea is due to start on Nov 15.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) said the successful implementation of the VTL scheme so far has given CAAS the experience and confidence to extend it to more countries.
It added that there are safeguards such as Covid-19 testing under the scheme, and that the number of arrivals will be managed by the VTL quota that is in place.
"We will monitor the progress of the scheme closely before deciding on any further increases in capacity," added CAAS.
On the reopening to Australia, CAAS said that Australia was among the top ten markets for annual passenger arrivals at Changi Airport, accounting for about 4 per cent of total arrivals in 2019.
There are more than 50,000 Singaporeans who live in Australia while over 25,000 Australians live in Singapore, it noted.
On the reopening to Switzerland, CAAS said Switzerland is a major financial centre and ranks among Singapore's top trading and investment partners.
It said there is a strong business presence of more than 1,000 Swiss companies operating in Singapore, among them large banks, insurance companies and other corporations.
There are also about 3,000 Swiss expatriates living in Singapore.
More details on the VTLs can be found at the Safe Travel website.
CAAS added: "As the global Covid-19 situation evolves, we will continue to adjust our border measures with the appropriate safeguards to ensure public health and safety."
COVID-19 Singapore: Infections and Deaths Continue Unabetted
ReplyDeleteSingapore on Monday (Oct 25) logged 3,174 new cases of Covid-19 and 14 more deaths due to complications from the disease.
The Ministry of Health (MOH) said in its nightly update on the coronavirus situation here that there were 107 patients who were unstable and under close monitoring in intensive care units (ICUs) to prevent further deterioration, up from the 97 reported the day before.
In addition, there were 64 patients who were critically ill and intubated in the ICUs, six more than on Sunday.
The number of patients who require oxygen support went down from 278 on Sunday to 261 on Monday because 14 have died and 3 require intubation.
In total, there are 366 ICU beds, of which 306 are now occupied — with 171 of these occupied by Covid-19 patients.
This means that the ICU utilisation rate is now 83.6%.
Among the new infections recorded on Monday, 2,843 were in the community, 322 were made up of migrant worker dormitory residents and the remaining nine were deliberately imported.
The ratio of community cases in the past week compared with the week before stood at 1.18, up from the 1.14 reported on Sunday.
On Monday, out of the 2843 cases, there were only 457 people above the age of 60 among the community cases. This amounts to less than 18%, which is proportional to the total population of Singapore. This is a normal occurrence. Nothing to be alarmed.
The 14 who died were all aged between 60 and 93. All of them had various underlying medical conditions. MOH did not give more details.
In total, 329 people here have died, including 228 this month alone, as a result of Living with COVID-19 Endemic.
The total official figure for COVID-19 infections reported by MOH is now 175,818 confirmed cases since the start of the Pandemic in Jan last year. This figure does not include those who were infected but not reported. The real figure could be as high as 3 times the official figures.
As of Monday, there were 1,779 Covid-19 patients in hospital, 41 more than the day before.
Among all Covid-19 community cases who have been onboarded or admitted:
18,279, or 71.3 per cent of them, were undergoing home recovery
4,626 (18 per cent) were in community care facilities
1,779 (6.9 per cent) were in hospital, mostly for observation
952 (3.7 per cent) were in Covid-19 treatment facilities
Separately, some 2,954 cases were discharged on Monday, of whom only 428 were seniors above the age of 60.
MOH said that over the last 28 days, the percentage of local cases who had mild or no symptoms was 98.7%.
China locks down city of four million over Covid cases
ReplyDeleteSounds tERRIBLE
Tuesday's fresh restrictions came as China reported 29 new domestic infections -- including six in Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province in the country's northwest.
What just 29....Singapore is number 1 always................
ReplyDeleteFor those of us who are fully vaccinated, we are armed to the teeth in the fight against COVID-19.
In addition to training our immune system with vaccines to recognise the enemy and to fight the enemy should it find its way in, we don a good mask. We also observe good personal hygiene of washing our hands, and keep a safe distance.
Should the virus breach the SMMs, and find its way into our house (body), our immune system is ready to do battle and to knock out every one of the virus before it can do more harm.
Not all immune systems are the same, just like not all soldiers are the same.
The obese soldier, for example, may not be able to run fast enough. The soldier with heart disease may not be able to do hard battle.
Likewise, some fully vaccinated people who have a weakened immune system may still succumb to the virus despite putting up a valiant fight.
Nevertheless, they gave themselves a fighting chance. They did not succumb without a fight.
As for the unvaccinated, they have an untrained immune system. They rely solely on their mask and safe distancing to keep themselves safe.
Should they become infected, it's like being taken by surprise by the enemy, and having to scramble to put up a defence. As their immune system scrambles to put up a defence, the virus has time to penetrate further as they also rapidly replicate themselves and spread out.
There is nothing like being unprepared for battle. It's foolishness to refuse to carry arms to do battle.
Get vaccinated now. What are you waiting for?
Suckers are born everyday and happily believing in fakes.
ReplyDeleteIf the fake vaccines work, the pandemic would have been over. Why are the cases getting higher and higher with more being vaccinated instead of getting lesser?
Snake oil is the best.
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