Ong Ye Kung
October 11 at 7:17 PMMinistry of Health, Singapore is bringing forward the rollout of the bivalent Moderna/Spikevax vaccine by a few days to 14 Oct.
This is because our operations teams were able to complete their preparations earlier, and there are benefits to administering early given infections are rising due to the XBB Omicron subvariant.
There is no evidence showing that XBB causes more severe illness. So please beware of falsehoods that are circulating.
I encourage individuals aged 50 and above, or persons have yet to achieve minimum protection, to take the bivalent vaccine.
Minister Gan Kim Yong and I went to the Commonwealth Joint Testing and Vaccination Centre today to observe the preparations and received our bivalent vaccine shot. It is safe and works better against Omicron in protecting you against severe illness.
Stay up-to-date with your vaccination!
Go to https://www.gowhere.gov.sg/vaccine to locate your nearest JTVC.
Anonymous
I said Singaporeans are so lucky for 3 reasons.
1. We are able to buy the world's best vaccines from the world's best pharma manufacturer, Pfizer, to vaccinate our people. Free some more.
2. The second reason is that our experts do not simply believe in the manufacturers, but also do the due diligence, do our own testings to make sure the vaccines are as good as what the manufacturers claimed to be. That is the reason why the govt is pushing out the new bivalent vaccines so fast to the people to be jabbed or boostered. This one likely to be as good as the 96% efficacy vaccines that Singaporeans and the rest of the western world were jabbed.
3. To assure the people that the vaccines are not only good but also safe, two ministers have offered themselves as the guinea pigs, got themselves jabbed with the bivalent vaccine. See, if anything wrong, we die first, we die for you. This is putting the money where the mouth is.
Singaporeans are truly very very lucky to have such brave and unselfish ministers. Now you know why they deserved every cent, oops, I mean every million dollars paid to them.
Singaporeans should go for the jabs as recommended by the ministers and can sleep well.
PS. No thank you. I am very happy with my Sinopharm vaccine and would stick to it if needed. Hope no more compulsion for people to be boostered. I got damn pissed off when it is by compulsion or coercion.
The two Gangho Ministers have no choice. They were the two Hell, oops Health Ministers. Therefore they have to show example.
ReplyDelete"Minister Gan Kim Yong and I went to the Commonwealth Joint Testing and Vaccination Centre today to observe the preparations and received our bivalent vaccine shot. It is safe and works better against Omicron in protecting you against severe illness."
Immediately after taking the jabs, they never even allow the drugs to set in first, but quickly declared that they are safe and works better against Omicron in protecting YOU?
This kind of bs puts me off straight away! Who are you trying to Shanghai? At least wait and see first. Three days later then declared whatever you want but not immediately after the jab men. This is written in Conjob Number One.
Wow! 'It is safe and works better against Omicron in protecting you against severe illness'. A superfast verdict. And they always say after that, please patronise our manufacturers.
ReplyDeleteImmediately after taking the jabs and declaring it works better is slick advertising indeed.
But, didn't they always tell us, if it is too good to be true, it must be bad.
I strongly believe Singaporeans are blessed to have such caring government to ensure the safety and well being of the country. If it had not been for such an almost perfect government the little red dot would have degraded into a swamp. Not to mention that the government pays itself in the millions, but it must be worth the money because for so many years Singaporeans have been keeping quiet and happy. I say again, Singaporeans are truly blessed. Do not KPKB.
ReplyDeleteThe more you try to impress upon the citizens that they are safe and works better for Omicron, the more you put many people off.
ReplyDeleteYou don't even apply the people's thought/thinking on your "safe" measure and whether it works better for Omicron is yet to be proven.
So, please spare all of us the agony of trying it out and then realise again and again that we have been conned. We have already been connednnn
ReplyDeleteFor at least the last three weeks, Singapore has been hit with a new double whammy of a new strain called a sub-strain of the XBB, a strain that spreads very widely and speedily, and our Millionaire Ministers are still deliberating whether to re-impose COVID-19 restrictions or not.
How long will the people have to wait, for the Health Minister to decide decisively?
The best answer is that we should not wait indefinitely, which may never come at all, but to decide on our own. We are all the best judge for ourselves.
Whether subsequently the Millionaire Ministers do finally decide that we have to put back our masks, it does not matter any more. We have already decided for ourselves.
As stated in a press conference that the number of cases is rising, driven by the new Omicron strain and by reinfections, why still have to wait and see? Haven't we been monitoring all these while. Yet, we still want to continue monitoring? Aren't we sick of the "closely" monitoring?
The Millionaire Minister was quick to point out that "the country is now riding out yet another wave without these measures." Bravo, three cheers to our Millionaire Minister!
Looks like this will be the norm for Singapore - each time a new wave is experienced, let the people speak for themselves. Each time a new wave comes, let the people sought it out by themselves. The Millionaire Ministers do not need to do anything. How wonderful! Just continue to collect their Millionaire Pay every year. How wonderful again!
Hi Anon 8:29pm, just ignore him. I don't encourage attacks on bloggers. I have deleted his comment. So I will delete this reply as well.
ReplyDeleteWe should just talk about issues, not about the person.
Cheers.
Ong Ye Kung
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Today I briefed the media on two issues. First, what to expect of the current Covid infection wave? Second, what are we doing to manage it?
1️⃣ First, this is a wave driven by the Omicron XBB subvariant, and contributed by reinfections, which is about 1 in 5 new infections now.
MOH expects that this wave will peak by around mid-November with a 7-day moving average of about 15,000 daily cases.
What is more important is how the cases translate into serious illness that will impact the healthcare system.
This chart compares the 7-day moving average number of local cases to the number of new hospitalisations. It suggests that in this wave, relatively fewer people are hospitalised, compared to previous waves. But we are monitoring closely.
2️⃣ Second, we are practically living with Covid as an endemic disease.
Endemicity does not mean we ignore the virus. We accept it exists, and take the necessary steps to live with it. These include:
�� Practising good personal and social responsibility, like Protocol 1-2-3
�� Restricting visits to hospitals and residential care homes to protect our vulnerable
�� Keeping our vaccinations up-to-date. So if you are 50 and above, consider taking the new bivalent vaccine.
As we continue to monitor the situation, we cannot rule out we may need to reinstate some SMMs if the situation worsens, like requiring the wearing of masks. We must try as much as possible to avoid SMMs that disrupt our normal lives.
Our society will continue to build up even more resilience with each infection wave.
The first time your are cheated by Pfizer, it is fair game. There is always the first time.
ReplyDeleteThe second time you got cheated by Pfizer, it is because you are stupid enough to trust Pfizer.
The third time you are cheated by Pfizer, it is your stupidity is beyond redemption.
It is stupidity has no cure.
Actually, not getting cheated is not a choice that some can make, but the coercion behind it hides the reality of why most get cheated. By enacting rules and regulations forbidding those unvaccinated from limited or no access to facilities, like tuition centres sited inside shopping malls, eating places, it is clearly forcing those that are affected having to comply, and therefore vaccination is no escape.
ReplyDeleteThe elderly can make that choice of not getting vaccinated, as they can stay away from such facilites, but the young and parents of the young do not have that luxury of choice.
Do you ever wonder why so may elderly stayed away from getting vaccinated? The answer is clear.
EU opens probe into vaccine deals
ReplyDeleteProsecutors said the case is a matter of “extremely high public interest”
EU opens probe into vaccine deals
FILE PHOTO: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen places an EU flag sticker on a box of Covid-19 vaccines during a visit to the Pfizer facility in Puurs, Belgium, April 23, 2021 © John Thys / Pool via AP
The European Union prosecutor’s office has launched an investigation into the bloc’s procurement of billions of Covid-19 vaccine doses, amid allegations of corruption and secret backroom dealings from several members of the EU parliament.
Ty-smart
In German sounds in English almost like , which is pretty befitting for the person refusing to reveal the contents of a € multi-billion contract to the European parliament. U.v.d. Leyen, the European Nazi queen of corruption..
Dr. Paul Offit, one of the Food and Drug Administration‘s (FDA) vaccine advisers (voting member), admitted on video that the new Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) bivalent boosters have no benefits whatsoever.
ReplyDeleteVaccine safety advocate Steve Kirsch posted a video of Offit’s remarks about the boosters during the expert’s interview with CNBC. Offit, a member of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC), voted against the approval of the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine dose.
“Do the benefits of this vaccine outweigh the risks? I didn’t see the benefits [and] I feel very strongly about my ‘no’ vote there. In fact, the only reason I voted no was because ‘hell no’ was not a choice,” he said.
“It just surprised me that we were willing to go forward with this, with such scant evidence of benefit. I think the phrase that I used was ‘uncomfortably scant.’ You just sort of felt like the fix was in a little bit here. I felt like we were being led here with a critical lack of information.”
According to Offit, the FDA based its approval of the bivalent COVID-19 boosters on data from clinical trials done on eight mice. “I don’t think you should ever ask tens of billions of people to get a vaccine based on mouse data,” he said.