New Bird Flu Outbreak In 46 Countries Already

Scientists are warning the world that while we are immersed in our individual and collective efforts to tackle the furious spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus, there exists concurrently an explosion in another deadly disease that could pose a threat to public health globally.

The H5N8, a subtype of highly pathogenic avian influenza virus (HPAIV), has been discovered many years ago, but during 2020 a series of emerging and ongoing H5N8 outbreaks in avian populations across dozens of countries have led to the death and slaughter of millions of birds worldwide.

The affected geographic regions have been expanding continuously, and at least 46 countries have reported highly pathogenic H5N8 AIV outbreaks already.

If leaders ignore this worrisome trend, and do not monitor and contain the spread of this new H5N8 avian flu virus, the World may have a double health pandemic at hand.

While the most vulnerable animals to H5N8 virus are birds, humans have also been infected by this virus recently.

An outbreak of the avian flu in Russia in December 2020 jumped to poultry workers in a farm in southern Russia – representing the first time the H5N8 virus has been found in humans.

While that was a first for H5N8, it certainly wasn't a first for clades and subclades related to H5N8, nor for avian flu viruses in general.

There is now a total of 862 confirmed cases of human infection with the Avian flu, including 455 deaths. These cases are from 17 countries, spreading across Europe, Eurasia, Middle-East, Africa, America, Asia and elsewhere.

Point to note, 76% of the H5N8 cases are from Egypt and Indonesia.

In most of the recent outbreaks, a clade of H5N8 called 2.3.4 has become the dominant infector worldwide.

This shows that the H5N8 virus has a propensity for rapid global spread in migratory birds.

At the same time, this virus also display evidence of constant evolution, genetically re-assorting themselves with parts of other Avian viruses.

Though the Covid-19 Pandemic has seen a big reduction in the Type A and Type B common flu, however, in over the same time frame, a number of highly pathogenic H5Ny AIVs, including H5N1, H5N2, H5N5, and H5N8 subtypes, have been spreading across the whole world.

These viruses show particular cell-binding adaptations that could pose greater risks for human transmission, including potentially human-to-human transmissibility.

Therefore, it is imperative that we must be now take responsibility, instead of taking umbrage, to keep a very close watch on this H5N8 Variant and ensure that they do not spread among our community.

Queen of Hearts

Allow PRs to buy landed properties? Instant 'huat ah' for Singaporeans

 

Indian PR:

May 16, 2021 at 12:40 pm  (Quote)

My family lives in Sg for many years.
Yet,I am not allowed to buy FREEHOLD LANDED PROPERTY.

This is strange and I don’t understand the reason.

We live like singaporeans.
Go to hawkers,my kids go to neighbourhood schools and we do our part for our local community like helping out in neighbourhood events and charities.

You see,we are normal people,ordinary working class who work hard and save some money.
We intend to let our kids go and serve NS as they take Sg as their motherland.
Reason we want to buy Landed house is we want to live as one big family after our kids get married,at least till their own kids grow older....

So,I still waiting for opportunities.
Hope I don’t miss my chance before rich foreigners snap these freehold houses up.

This is a comment posted in TRE.

If Singapore wants property prices to go sky high, it should relax the rulings against PRs buying landed properties. I can guarantee landed property prices would shoot to the sky. The prices of small landed properties would hit $10m or $20m.  Singaporeans can sell, become millionaires and downgrade to HDB flats and no need to work. The downgrading would also push HDB prices to above $1m, making HDB flat owners also very rich, asset rich. Some can cash out and migrate to JB, Batam and Bintang. Cannot go to western countries unless they don't mind being victims of hate Asian crimes.

In the long run, all the private properties would be owned by PRs and Singaporeans would only live in million dollar HDB flats. No chance to buy private properties as their income could not afford it. 

Would this be nice? The PRs are begging to buy your landed properties. They are very nice people. Think the imbeciles are salivating at this suggestion.

Criticisms of Government’s Rules In Travel are NOT Confused With Obligations Under CECA

 


The majority of us, Singaporeans, are not confused. Only a few are confused with obligations under CECA.

Those who are naively confused or deliberately confused are those who tell others not to be confused.

It is very clear that some of the government rules, regulations, instructions, directions and policies are closely linked to or in consideration of the CECA, or deliberately avoided/excluded the CECA, e.g. the Fair Consideration Framework for hiring and firing.

Please take note that the Supreme and Ultimate OBLIGATION in any country's government is to its own citizens, especially their livelihood and survival. This is to be First and Foremost. No deviation. No question asked. No doubt whatsoever.

The government's primary responsibility is to ensure that citizens are gainfully and decently employed, with dignity, and fairly-well paid according to the standard and cost of living in that country!

The second-most Supreme and Unquestionable OBLIGATION of any government is to ensure that foreigners do not come into the country to deprive its citizens of their jobs, by replacing them entirely or partially, or by displacing them to lower jobs, or to other organisations! Foreign talents must support, supplement or complement the local citizens' jobs and responsibility. Not to replace or displace them. It is the same as a foreign power coming in to replace or displace the government. Either instance, the government is weak and incompetent.

Moreover, there is no such a thing as "absolute" obligations that have to be obediently obeyed like a soldier taking orders from his general.

Singapore is a sovereign and independent country. She is not an appendage or a colony of India. Her government is not obliged to OBEY any trade agreement strictly to the letter. An agreement is not an order. Therefore, the government is naturally, constitutionally, legally and politically expected to exercise good and independent judgement for the benefit of its citizens without fear, favour or ill-will. Being afraid to offend the other party of the agreement, for whatever reasons, is showing fear. If the government is showing fear to a foreign power, than it is a very weak and incompetent government.

In addition, there is a clause at the very end of the CECA documents that it can be terminated by simply giving a six months notice. No additional clause with tiny letters added. That means any obligation that is not in favour of, or not in good faith with, the interests of any group of our citizens, or our livelihoods, can be terminated, or changed, by giving six months notice.

India, on the other hand, through and via the legally-weaponised CECA stealthy long-range missile, is precisely taking responsibility and exercising her supreme and ultimate OBLIGATION TO HER CITIZENS - to ensure that her nationals are gainfully and decently employed, with dignity and well-paying jobs that they cannot get in their own country!

In conclusion, when talking about OBLIGATIONS to any trade agreement, or any other agreement with a foreign power, the government's primary, supreme, unquestionable, ultimate OBLIGATION IS TO ITS CITIZENS FIRST and FOREMOST!

Think again.


LIPS.

Chinese Tech ahead of Americans

 

 

Now, would the loser Americans lie again that China has stolen their technology? The Americans made 21 attempts to land on Mars and only succeeded on the 22nd attempt.

China made one attempt and succeeded.  So, China stole the American technology again?

The backward loser USA would slip further behind China in everything and every way just like Qing China missing out on the Industrial Revolution in Europe, now the USA is missing out on the 4th Industrial Revolution in AI.

It is also very fishy when the Americans are so desperate to ask China for the data China got from its Mars probe Zhurong.  Didn't the Americans made the first landing and have tried 22 times and collected enough data of Mars? Two possibility, they wanted to find faults with Chinese data and then accused China of whatever shit that came to their fancy. Or, they did not have real data from Mars.  What they had probably fakes. So they wanted the real stuff from China.

Like the moon landings, they had a lot of data from the moon but very desperate to demand that China shared its data with them. And this is despite the law they passed not to cooperate with China, not to share data with China.

What are the Americans up to? Afraid that China would prove that they were bluffing and lying all these years?

Wildlife - The price to pay when they grew in numbers

Photo credit to theindependent.sg

Singapore – For one man, what started as a typical exercise session along Upper Boon Keng Road with friends became a painful encounter with a wild animal.

On May 13, a 77-year-old man was exercising near Kallang River when around 20 otters emerged, reported the Chinese newspaper Shin Min Daily News.

Upon seeing the otters, the man was glued on the spot. “I seldom saw them all out in a group, so I stood still and waited for them to leave,” he noted.

However, one of the adult otters went up to him and bit his left calf, causing him to cry out in pain, reported Shin Min....

He added that he exercised every morning over the 10 years he had been living in the area.

“The otters started appearing about two to three years ago and used to move around in smaller groups of three or four.”

However, the wild animals started appearing in larger groups over the last year, and they’re physically bigger, the man said.

The above is from theindependent.com. When they are small in numbers, they looked so cute, so nice, so friendly, so harmless, even afraid of man.

When the number increases, and when they are hungry, or started to be possessive, guarding their newly acquired territory, they will show you who they really are, what they really are....wildlife.

What is the moral of the story? It is ok to have a lot of them, if you don't mind being bitten or even driven out of their territory. 

PS. A typical dumb Singaporean.