NOT SO FAST PLEASE: Don't Sweep SNEC's Blunder Under The Carpet

Below is part of an article from TOC reposted here by SSO.

"In the wake of reports over the weekend that the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) has given a member of staff the equivalent to 5 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine due to human error, it is notable that none of the senior members of Government has addressed this mistake publicly.

In addition, the error was apparently made on 14 Jan which begs the question of why it took so long for the public to be informed?

To make matters, worse, it seems like the wife of our Prime Minister, Madam Ho Ching (Madam Ho) has attempted to defend such mistakes on her Facebook page.

Among other things, Madam Ho has said “When you have mass exercises like vaccination, it is easy to make mistakes. We are human after all.” While mistakes are understandable and sometimes unavoidable, it seems completely tone-deaf to dismiss this error when the various relevant ministers have not even spoken up on the issue.

If the mistake was made on her husband, would she be so sanguine?"


Comments:

1. Blunders dismissed so easily and rapidly by the power in the shadow is tantamount to condoning and encouraging more such acts to happen.

2. It not only speaks of favouritism but also indirectly trying to cover up a blunder with a dismissive attitude.

3. When big blunders are dismissed so easily and quickly, what will happen to the medium and small blunders? Common sense tells that they had probably be swept under the carpet, may be over the last 20 years of shadowy power behind the scenes.

4. Why are the Health Ministrer and COVID-19 Team Co-Chairman keeping so quiet over this huge blunder?

5. Why is the Prime Minister also keeping so quiet about this blunder, and allowed his wife to overshadow him by firing the first shot?

6. Silence is not golden in this case. Speaking too late and allowing third parties to fire first means glaring poor leadership and the inability to size up the situation in a timely manner.

7. It also means taking Singaporeans and voters for granted and taking their responsibilities too lightly and their jobs too comfortably.

8. At least put up a show lah. Ask one of the million-dollar Ministers to make a parliamentary statement in order to take responsibility
and address this blunder, and promise to ensure that such blunders will not happen again.

9. Alternatively, initiate a board of Inquiry to look into the blunder and recommend standard operating procedures for the future. If even such actions also refused to do, then it speaks volumes about the leadership as a whole.

10. What has happened to all the political acumen and the wisdom passed down by the grand Old Man? Out of sight, out of mind?


SSO - 9 Feb 2021

American ploy to control European and South East Asian countries - Erect bogeymen!

 European and South East Asian countries are daily being coerced by the Americans to take sides against China. No, do not listen to the lies by the western media and Americans that China is forcing them to take sides against the Americans. China has been trading happily with every country in the world without anyone being forced to go against the Americans.  Stop listening to the white lies.

With the rise of China, and China being the number one trading partner to many countries, it is foolish and pure stupidity to want to go against China at the behest of the evil American Empire. South East Asian countries are tired of being dragged by the nose to go against China or Russia. No more Coalition of the Unwilling, to be led to war by the Americans under the pressure of either with the Americans or against the Americans. No more bullying by the Americans to take sides.

Australia and its rogue govt led by a dumb PM Morrison, full of zeal to want to be the barking dog of the Americans to attack China, are now left out in the cold. No trade, no communication. Daft Australians think it is their right to make Chinese money and also the right to dig at China. Now it is learning the painful lesson.

Europe, under the leadership of Merkel and Macron, are now standing up to the American coercion. They know that the future of Europe lies in trading with China and the rest of the world, and would not be arm twisted by the Americans to go against China or Russia.  European countries have their pride and would not want to be the pawns of the Americans, become sacrificial lambs of the Americans. Going against these two countries would mean Europe would become the enemies of China and Russia. It also means no more trade and investment, no more cheap oil and natural gas from Russia but to buy expensive oil and natural gas and goods from the Americans. No 5G. European manufacturers, car makers would have to kiss the Chinese market goodbye.

Merkel and Macron have come out openly in defiance against pressure by the Biden Administration to form a military coalition against Russia and China. For doing so, European countries would come under the control and dictate of the Americans, like colonies of the evil American Empire with the American calling the shot, telling them who they can trade with and do business with. The bottom line is that no trade and relations with China and Russia, only with the Americans. Europe would lose its independence and be subjugated by the evil American Empire. 

European countries cannot afford to lose the biggest consumer market in the world and be reliance on the mature and shrinking American market and be bullied and threatened by the Americans as and when the Americans wanted to. Russia is no longer a threat to the European countries unlike the USSR. Russia is now a shadow of itself, a much smaller country than the Soviet Union. But the Americans would want to continue to harp about the Russian threat to frighten the European countries. This lie would not go down well to countries like Germany and France. They are as powerful as Russia and have no fear of Russia.  Both had even invaded Russia in the past. They do not need a bogeyman to trick them into fearing a shadow by the evil Americans.

The Americans are also using the same trick in Asia, harping about the threats from China or North Korea.  Asian and South East Asian countries have also seen through this American lie. China and North Korea are not their enemies but the enemies of the Americans, raised as a threat to frighten them and to force them to be forever subservient slaves to the American Empire. Asian and South East Asian countries would not want to be forever controlled by the evil American Empire and wanted to chart their own destinies. Trading with a friendly China, their number one trading partner, is any time better than making an enemy of China, living in fear and forced to waste money buying American weapons.

Russia, China, North Korea etc are convenient bogeymen raised by the Americans to strike fear in the unthinking allies to think they are being threatened and needed to be protected. If this does not work, the Americans would agitate and provoke the Russians, Chinese or North Koreans by threats of war and any reaction by them would be called aggressive behaviour to frighten their unthinking allies. At the same time the Americans and all its covert agencies, NGOs and western media would fabricate lies, cooked up fake information to smear these countries, to drum in the imaginary threat as if they are real.

This ploy of constantly erecting a threat to frighten their allies to toe the lie, to live in fear, is a worn out lie and no longer believeable. They just could not continue with such lies and think they could control their unwilling allies to do their biddings and be part of the colonies of the evil Empire. European countries are breaking free from the American coercion. The Asian and South East Asian countries are also breaking free except for a few diehards that have their own agenda to push to want to live with the American lies and be cronies of the evil American Empire.

It is game over for the evil American Empire. No more white lies.

PS.  Latest bogeyman is Myanmar. The Americans have been waiting to move into Myanmar for many years. Now is the chance to be the lead man, the leader of another Coalition of the Willings and Unwillings, to invade Myanmar. How many happy cronies would be wagging their tails to join this Coalition to kill Myanmese?

The Confession Of A Typical Selfish Shortsighted Singapore Idiot

They came for the Opposition and dissenters, but I did not speak up because I thought they are the minority, and the majority of 61% has voted for the Party.

They came for the bloggers and whistleblowers, again I did not speak up. I thought if I live in peace and did not complain, it would be alright and everything would be just fine.

Then they came for my friends and neighbours, but again I did not think that it was my duty to speak up for them. I had thought that when Election time comes, I just VTO and kick them out but in the mean time I just suck it up and suffer silently like an idiot, it would be alright for me.

Finally, they came for me. OMG! There was no one left to speak up for me!

Signed: A Singapore Idiot.



From SSO - 9 Feb 2021.

More Blessings For Singapore! SNEC Blunder Or Error?

Yes, Singapore is so blessed that even an employee at the Singapore National Eye Centre (SNEC) has been blunderingly, carelessly and complacently injected with FIVE doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine instead of only one.

SNEC revealed the incident only 3 days ago, when the serious blunder had taken place on 14 January during a Vaccination Experiment, using its staff as guinea-pigs "voluntarily".

SNEC has said that it was due to “human error” resulting from a lapse in communication among the Vaccination Team at the time. In other words, either no standard operating procedures were established or they were not strictly followed.

The use of the word "error" is an understatement. It obviously looks like a big serious blunder that should never have happened, and that could have caused long-term serious injury or even a slow death a few years down the road. Nobody really knows at this stage.

“The error was discovered within minutes of the vaccination when the staff was resting in a designated area after vaccination,” SNEC press release revealed.

“Senior doctors were alerted immediately and the staff was assessed and found to be well, with no adverse reaction or side effects.” The poor staff is so lucky and SNEC is so blessed.

The SNEC added that it has been following up closely with the staff member, who remains well. For now! We won't know the long term effects until time has past. Until it's too late to take any preventive action.

Although the incident took place earlier in January, news of it only broke out three days ago. Why took so long to release a press statement to inform the public?

Could it be a case of trying to cover up, initially?

And simply declared it as a "human error" will suffice?

No one takes responsibility for such a serious blunder?

No heads rolled?

No board of inquiry?

See? SNEC is so lucky and so blessed!


1984 George Orwell - 8 February 2021

Are high risk activities essential to character building?

I have been bombarded with this very serious question, high risk activities essential to character building. I am not talented to answer that. First thing that came to mind is that weak, specky, bookworm nerds, with very little physical exercises and activities, physically unfit, should not be made to perform monkey tricks that required physical muscles and strength.  Just like climbing Mount Everest, the climbers need many months of gruelling physical training before making the assault on the mountain.

But I do know of one high risk activities that are worth attempting. Cheating. Cheating in exams, buying paper degrees, cheap and good, printed in good quality paper, and present them to get a good paying jobs. And know how silly the people doing the vettings are, or how lazy they are to do due diligence, the chances of getting through and landing a good paying jobs is very high.

Why risk limbs and lives trying to be better than monkeys with monkey skills that are worth nothing. What character building when one eventually lost out to the cheats with fake degrees and probably become delivery boys or security guards, or if parents got money, become Grab drivers.  These jobs do not need character building. What is character building worth if a degree is just a piece of paper, cannot be eaten?

What do you think? Waste more money learning to become monkeys, performing monkey tricks? The street smarts would not waste time or a dime on such useless skills. They would be buying their degrees and honing their skills to get through that interview or bribing their way to a good job, through their connections. No need character building, no need monkey tricks.

PS.  Maybe they are preparing them to be soldiers, or commandos....or to clean high rise buildings.  People that took unnecessary risks that they did not have to, speak a lot about their characters.