Ebola threat is real and imminent

This is copied from John Harding’s blog dated 3 Aug 14.

‘There are fears of a world-wide Ebola outbreak after a passenger from Sierra Leone collapsed and died as she got off a plane at Gatwick. If the woman had Ebola the virus could spread globally as Gatwick services over 90,000 passengers every day.
The woman, 72, became ill on the gangway after she left a Gambia Bird jet with 128 passengers on board. She was sweating profusely and vomiting. The aircraft was immediately quarantined.
According to officials, “The passenger was taken to hospital and sadly died. The patient was not symptomatic on the plane and therefore there is no risk of Ebola being passed on to either flight crew or other passengers.”
This is incorrect, as the woman could easily transmit the Ebola virus to others on the aircraft as could her vomit once as she exited.
The passengers from Gatwick have since departed for nearly every country around the world.’

It is unbelievable that the Brits allowed the passengers to depart without quarantined them. It is like go forth and multiply, Ebola. The 128 passengers could be the angels of death, bring Ebola along with them. It is very difficult now to track those people they have come into contact. So were the crew of the Gambia jet.
 
Is this the beginning?

Kopi Level - Yellow

What kind of Singapore do the Singaporeans want?

We need to know where we are heading and the social economic model that will make life better for Singaporeans. This is our country and we must do everything to favour the Singaporeans, to assist them to lead a good life. There is no point of having a rich and prosperous Singapore but benefiting only a few elite families and foreigners while the rest of the Singaporeans were made to struggle and to downgrade their quality of life. Today, the catchphrase for Singaporeans is all about downgrading except for the few privileged elites and the super rich.

And if you look at the family structure of Singaporeans, even the rich would not last more than one generation. The cost of living is so high that if their next generation of children are going to be mediocre, they would be taking the downgrading road as well and that will be the end of their fortune and their good life. Some may not care since they did not want to have children. They just want to live this good life and call it quits when they turn to ashes.

We need to develop a system that would advantage Singaporeans to sustain their good life, their children and grand children’s good life. We must not have a system that only helps the foreigners to enjoy a better life at the expense of the Singaporeans. We should not be using our public funds to nurture foreigners to have a good life and not our children. We got a lot of table tennis gold medals. So? Anyone feeling excited about it? How is it going to better the children of Singapore?

We are spending millions and millions of public money to bring in foreigners, to hire them at very good pay, but to discard our own just to claim that we have talents. Is this good for Singaporeans? It is not about envy or jealousy. It is about stupidity. If you are talking of a handful of foreigners, fair enough, we need some diversities and some competition. When we go in blindly, and flooded our social economic system with foreigners, instead of supplementing our needs, or as interim measures to train our own, to replace our very own, what the fuck are we thinking? Where are we heading? Where is the future of Singaporeans and our children? I am talking about the children of all Singaporeans.

Do we want to replace our own kind with foreigners simply because they are better? I am not even thinking of fakes and half bakes. As a country and a nation of people, we must protect our own kind, provide all the opportunities for our own kind, provide them the space and avenues to have good jobs, good incomes, good homes. Not telling them to downgrade to be taxi drivers and security guards or cleaners because there is a long queue of foreigners waiting at the door. This is seditious talk..

Am I talking Greek? Or am I talking to dunces? This is your country and you must be the preferred choice for good jobs, good homes, good educations and good of everything. The foreigners can come only as a side show, at our pleasure, not displeasure, to compliment our needs, not to replace ours. We must not commit socio economic suicide by welcoming the foreigners to take over our jobs, our homes and our country, and to rule us. The foreigners must be laughing silly at our stupidity which we bragged to the world as the secret to our success.

And for those who want 6.9m or 10m people in this island, I simply ask, what for? You mean Singapore cannot be a rich and prosperous city state without more population? Is that the only answer? Is this the only trick that the pony knows?

Kopi Level - Yellow

Historical millionaire clubs

The top three pics were of the Chinese Weekly Entertainment Club at Club Street. It is a private millionaire club with a history going back to 1891. Membership is private and confidential and I was not allowed to take any pics of the committee members on the board.  The clock is still telling the time of its glorious days.

The lower two pics were of the Lu Wu Club, also at Club Street a short distance away from Weekly Club. It was empty and appeared to have moved or defunct. A big red no entry sign greeted the visitors at the main entrance. It is now gone, with its stories of the wealthy of the past hidden in the memories of its existing members if they are still around.

10m population – Crossing the line of diminishing return

Liu Thai Ker’s keynote address at a forum organised by the Business Times of SPH in collaboration with Singapore Institute of Building Limited yesterday (31 Jul) is drawing unusual flaks in the social media. He is singing the same sick mantra of growing population for economic growth and wanting more immigrants in the little island. More than 160 comments (in TRE) have been posted in the thread about the 10m population that Liu Thai Ker said was needed for Singapore to be a sustainable country. If this belief is true, Singapore would have perished long ago and all the small countries should not exist.

The netizens were not angry with Liu Thai Ker personally. But for him to repeat this folly is just unbearable. And they are looking for a scapegoat to vent their anger. Liu Thai Ker was in the right place to take the blows. To have 6.9m or 10m or 20m is just a matter of adjusting to a life in a more dense piece of rock. Can, sure can. The people would also become denser or be condensed.

It is not a matter of can or cannot. It is a matter of whether the people want to go down that road. It is not even a matter of being sustainable or not sustainable. There are many schools of thoughts on this and no one is wiser. It is not an absolute solution that we go this way or we will perish. Come on, is there a genius out there that can be sure of this, that there is no other ways?

By the same belief, I would not even grant it the privilege of calling it a logic, the Australians must be dumb to have so few people in a continent bigger than China, India or the USA and with a population of about 20m. The economists for growth will be screaming ‘fools’. The architects and property developers will be shaking their heads for the lost opportunities to build more buildings and fill up the land with more people. Wonder who is crazy?

Why do we want to keep building and building and to add more and more people into this piece of rock? What for? Oh, economic growth!  We have gone pass the law of diminishing return when every extra effort will give smaller and smaller returns. We are in a new level, a level when every extra effort, or increase in population, will lead to an increase in pain. The more people we put into the island, the higher will be the cost of living, the stress on the socio eco system, the infrastructure and the demands on the people. It will lead to more stress and more pain, on the people and on the systems and structures.

Those who are living in the confines of 50,000 sq ft properties would not know or feel that this is happening. Some wise crackpots are even telling the people that living in 600 sq ft flat for a family of 4 or 6 is fine, no drop in the quality of life. We used to have that kind of environment in the 50s and 60s, 8 or 10 people living in a cubicle. That was the quality of life. They escaped the squeeze by spending time outside the cubicles. Today the people are better off with aircon comfort in shopping centres and the great pubs and nightspots.

The people are saying they did not want this kind of squeeze. Why should their lives be screwed by a few people who want to push this belief through, even got it rubber stamped in Parliament? The govt has heard the cries and the felt the anger. But it seems to choose the deaf frog way, not wanting to listen and now we have a line up of snake oil sellers paraded to sell this koyok of more population. Who is the crazy one? The people must decide on this. The people have rejected the PWP. If the govt wants the moral authority to carry this through, it must call for a referendum before destroying this island for the Singaporeans and their children. Turning a deaf ear is not a solution. This is the people’s call, not the call of a handful of individuals, and definitely not the call of snake oil sellers.

Kopi Level - Red again. 

Tastefully offensive

TASTEFULLY OFFENSIVE

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View this. It was on America's got talent. They are not so uptight as a people and a society. They know how to have fun.