9/24/2021

COVID-19 Singapore: Selective Reporting And Half-Truths Instead Of Full Disclosure?

 



In a Straits Times report dated 15 Dec 202, it was established that 47 per cent of migrant workers in S'pore dorms have had a Covid-19 infection.

There are about 323,000 dormitory dwellers in Singapore.

Almost half of the migrant workers living in dormitories have had a Covid-19 infection, the authorities said on Monday (Dec 14, 2020) in a joint statement made by MOH and MOM.

As of Sunday (Dec 13, 2020), 54,505 such workers have tested positive for the virus via a polymerase chain reaction or PCR test.

Another 98,289 had a positive result from a serology test, which checks for a previous infection.

This means 152,794 workers in dorms have tested positive in PCR or serology tests or both.

They form 47 per cent of the 323,000 dormitory dwellers in Singapore, said the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) and the Ministry of Health (MOH) in a joint statement.

The ministries added that serology tests for about 65,000 workers in dorms who had not taken them before were still being carried out. "This will give us the full picture of the infection prevalence among our migrant workers," they said.

PCR tests are used to diagnose current or new infections.

Serology tests identify those who have been infected in the past, by detecting the presence of Covid-19 antibodies in blood samples.


Question:

WHY IS THE 152,794 Cases of Infections not included in the Overall Total Count for COVID-19 Infections in Singapore?

LIPS 

China - 开门打狗

 The history of China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was best described by the phrase, 关门打狗, or locking the door to beat the dogs. The western foreigners and the Japanese were the ones locking the door and the Chinese were the dogs. And they had no mercy beating up the Chinese in everyway possible. The Chinese were subhuman and were subject to all kinds of beating and thrashing, bullying oppression and suppression. All their possession were free to be taken away from them. They were even drugged with opium brought in by the foreigners, legally, by force of course.  The Chinese did not have human rights or rights of any kind, no equality, no dignity.


They were locked in by the foreign powers to be exploited, cheated, robbed, beaten and kicked around in their own land. Their no longer belonged to them but to the foreign invaders.

China was lucky to have Mao and his communist Party to unite them as one people and to drive out all the foreigners from their land. But the door was still locked by the foreigners in their containment policy. The Chinese would have to make do with whatever they had and find their own way out of poverty and misery. It was a time of rebuilding their country by themselves, 关门自强. There were no foreign aid or assistance.

China got a little reprieve when the West needed China to be on their aside in their containment of USSR and allowed to open up and join the world economy, joined the WTO. Under Deng's guidance, it was a time to quickly learn everything from the new western dominated world, economic and scientific developments that had gone by while they were isolated from the world. It was also a time to work furiously and not getting into trouble. Kept the head low, when slapped, turned the other cheek.

The Americans had a great time time beating and bullying the Chinese with no repercussion, no fighting back from the Chinese.  The western world and even small little Asian and SE Asian countries followed to take liberty on China.  Some Asean countries even thought it was alright to grab Chinese islands and claimed them as their own. US and EU freely sanctioned and threatened China for every nonsensical reasons and talking down to China.  Canada arrested innocent Chinese citizen. Australia tore away trade agreements and taunted and challenged China like a gangster. Japan openly supported Taiwan's independence and verbally said it would support Taiwan militarily. Little Lithuania and EU wanted to recognise Taiwan as an independent state from China etc etc

Against all these threats and violation to China's sovereignty, what could or should China do?

开门打狗

With so many dogs and pests banging at its door and blaring their megaphones in its front yard, China had it enough. It is time to open the door to beat the dogs and pests away. Australia, Canada and Lithuania were the first to have a taste of China's dog beating stick. Others would follow in the course of time if they did not beat a retreat.

This is a major change in China's coming out policy. China would now go for tit for tat, a tooth for a tooth or more policy in dealings with aggressive and disrespectful little or big brats. China will be aggressive, very aggressive, and will come down very hard on people or countries that infringed on its rights. China will behave like a big super power and will carry a big dog beating stick.  Any country wanting to behave like a stray dog in China's court yard would be whacked real hard with no exceptions. Make this very clear, China is coming out with a big club and with the intention to use it. Do not fool around when China means serious business. 

China would not give away an inch of its territory or turn away when challenged or taunted. The Anglo Saxon countries, the world's trouble makers,  the world's number threat to world peace, and with the pretension and dream of ruling the rest of the world would be the top dogs, top on the list to be beaten by China. They formed offensive military alliances in the forms of 5 eyes, the QUAD, and now AUKUS, all aimed to take on China,  to bring down China.

By the time China has done enough of dog beating, it would be time for China to 开门平天下, to bring peace and prosperity to the world, like what it is doing in Africa and Central Asia. These countries would develop and progress faster than the Asean countries with Chinese funds, technology and assistance. They will leapfrog and become the new rich countries of the world while Europe and America fade into oblivion. 

Many European countries are already bankrupt or at the verge of bankruptcy. Going against China and cutting themselves off from China's economic train would leave them out in the cold, high and dry. They would be competitive and would not survive in an economy dominated and controlled by the Americans.

The World will be safer without the United States. PART ONE

   The world will be safer , more peaceful and harmonious without the United States.

The United States of America is far too evil and wicked and if God so willing it should be destroyed. There are many reasons why the white Anglo-Saxon United States should be destroyed by God. Ever since its founding the white supremacists United States never cease its evil acts of atrocities and genocide of natives in America and in other parts of the world. It has constantly and mindlessly interfered in the internal affairs of other countries and imposing unwarranted wars on others causing deaths and destruction and unnerving suffering, all just for US belligerence and wanton greed. All these have been going on for the last 70 years since the end of the Second World War in 1945. This leaves us to wander when will the US ever let the world live in peace and harmony for at least even one day. May be the evil things and atrocities that the Evil Empire has been commiting against the non-white countries will eventually catch up with the Americans and destroy them forever.

From day one since its independence to the present the Evil Empire has never given the world a day of peace. From its intial 13 states the Evil Empire aggressively expanded its territories by invading hundreds of self-governing natives states as agreed in treaties by the British imperialist with the native Americans. But the Evil Empire's expansionist policy of 'Manifest Destiny of America' would not recognize the native American states. It went on to invade them and to kill and genocide all the native Americans. Having successfully taken over all the states of the native Americans the Evil Empire planned for the conquest of many Mexican states. Thus between 1840s to 1890s the Evil Empire attacked and invaded Mexico and occupied eight  Mexican states which include the present states of Texas, New Mexico, Wyoming, Colorado, Arizona, Utah, Nevada and California. 

Having taken over most of Mexico's territories the Evil Empire began to look overseas for expanding its empire in its competition with many European powers for conquering non-white people's lands in the far flung oceans. In 1895 it began to invade Hawaii. And in 1898 it invaded Cuba, Puerto,  and the Philippines. Thereafter the United States cast its evil eyes on China.  In 1890, Admiral Alfred Thayer Mahan and Theodore  Roosevelt said far across the western Pacific Ocean lies China in which the sick Chinese people are not qualified to run the country. He said China with a big population will provide  a huge market for US to export its products and US must occupy China and teach the Chinese some semblance of civilize rule before it is completly partitioned by European powers and Japan to the exclusion of US interest. 

Theodore Roosevelt was elected US president in 1901. He was a supra white supremacist and he was also an ardent believer in US imperialism in the way of the imperialism of the European powers in empire building. His ideology of adopting a very aggressive foreign policy of imperialism reinforced the doctrine of 'Manifest Destiny of America' even further. He strongly believe that the United States should use its strength and power to advance US interests in the world. Thus to threaten other countries into submission he quoted a proverb, 'Speak softly, but carry a big stick.'

Theodore Roosevelt also used racism to make a distinction between "civilized" and "uncivilized" nations of the world. He was far too arrogant and uncouth when he defined civilized nations as predominantly white and Anglo-Saxon or Teutonic and uncivilized nations were generally non-white, Latin Americans or Slavic. Another distinction he used was the importance of economic development. Thus by his definition civilized nations were producers of industrial goods while the uncivilized nations were the suppliers of raw materials and markets. Theodore Roosevelt was a savage animal with wild pretensions. Though his chronic perspectives of civilized and uncivilized nations and his white supremacist outlook have been the practice of Western powers for centuries but his accentuation of this fake doctrine has been followed zealously  as biblical through in Washington, the Pentagon and CIA. And this is the evil seed that spawns all diabolical deeds and permanent wars that the Evil Empire has been imposing on all non-white countries in this world for decades.

Adding more toxic to his belligerent doctrine he claimed that a civilized country had a right and duty to intervene in the affairs of backward nations to preserve law and order for the good of both the  countries being intervened and the intervener, USA. Armed with this aggressive policy Theodore Roosevelt developed American sea power to surpass that of all the European powers and US became the most dominant sea power in the world. US then continued to intervene more aggressively in the internal affairs of Central  America and South America countries. These interventions cause severe economic disasters to the victimised countries though they benefit US substantially both in economic and political terms.  US then forage into the Pacific Ocean where it mopped up all the small island nations and took them under US control and where US built their military bases. Some of these islands are Guam, Samoa, Marshall Islands, Bikini Islands and Mid-way islands. From these Pacific Ocean island military bases US was laying the beach-heads for its future aggressions in the Far East of East Asia and South East Asia. This is what is happening now as US is posturing its marine and naval power in the South China Sea and the East China sea in a threatening manner trying to intimidate China and other countries which refuse to toe US dictates.

The present crux of the matter is that though US is clearly a very evil expansonist and harmful atrocious imperial power yet quite a lot of ex-colonial non-white countries see US and its Western power allies in a better light vis-a-vis their perspectives on China, Iran, Russia, North Korea or Cuba. Why? Is it what Mabu Mahubani said, "Can Asians Think". Or is it due to ceaseless US / Western propaganda, misinformation, disinformation, lies and half truth. Or is there a third dimension to this matter.

US and Western toxic propaganda does play a very important part to hijack the brain and thinking power of these ex-colonial countries. But it can be observed that many of these ex-colonial countries have also gained extensively in their countries territories after given independence by their colonial masters. Some examples of these countries are India, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. Before the British came India consisted more  than 20 different separate states and kingdoms with over 60 major different languages. The British came and ruled all the separate different Indian states and kingdoms collectively as one political unit. Thus India gained from British rule in forging it into a  unitary single state. India had gained over two hundred thousand square miles of Chinese land which the British had illegally and forcibly detached from China in the years 1890s to 1915. The British was supposed to return these stolen lands to China but it kept on stalling inspite of many meetings and discussions on the matter until 1947 when England gave independence to India without the final settlement of the India-China border issues. After independence India refused to discuss and negotiate with China on the border issues. India just wanted to assume the mantle of British imperialism in keeping  China's territories. The evil Anglo-Saxon British had indeed laid the seed of future contention between an independent India and China under its toxic divide and rule policy.

Malaysia was never a single entity country. It was hemmed in as a single entity ruled by the British imperialist. In the late 1950s to preempt Malaya from being taken over by the communists England granted independence to Malaya and incorporated Sarawak and Sabah ( British North Borneo ) into Malaya to form Malaysia and to preempt Indonesia from swallowing Sarawak and Sabah.

Indonesia also gained extensive territories when it got its independence from the Dutch or Holland. It gained the large territories of Borneo ( or Kalimantan as called by the Indonesians ), Papua New Guinea and  Timor.

The Philippines also gained new territories in the Sulu Sea Archipelago which was formerly an independent kingdom.

India, Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines had gained substantial new territories  in their independence from their ex white colonial masters in which they are psycologically inclined to look at them with favourite light vis-a-vis issues with China.

Indo-China which consists of Viet-nam, Cambodia and Laos were formerly  part of Chinese sovereign territory and a Chinese province for over a thousand years. But during the over hundred years of humiliation from 1830s to 1948 China was ravaged, trampled and invaded by European powers, Russia, the United States and Japan. England was stealing Chinese lands in southwest and south east China bordering Tibet and Yunnan. Russia was devouring huge Chinese territories north of the Heilongjiang River and the Maritime province of the Ussuri region up to the Pacific Ocean including the Sakhalin Island from 1850s to 1885. The principal Chinese city of Haisenwei the capital of the Maritime Ussuri region was occupied by Russia which renamed it as Vladivostok or Russian Fort of the East. In the meantime Germany invaded and took away the Shangtung province with its Capital city Tsingtao. In 1875 Japan attacked China and occupied the Liu Chiu Island Archipelago which they renamed it as Ókinawa.' In 1885 France took advantage of China's weakness and attacked the Chinese province of Indo-China in the Árrow War' as the war was so called. Though the French lost the Arrow War but through its capricity it managed to hookwink the Qing empeor in far away Beijing to believe that China lost the war and coerced the emperor  to surrender the province of Indo-China to France.

After the Second World War in 1945 the United States took over the mantle of world hegemon from England. The Anglo-Saxon elites of the U.S. had planned for a long time to build The United States empire to be the most powerful empire of all times and to be the one and only lasting empire on earth. And as the only superpower the US has no qualms about how it bullies and threatens other countries into submission to its control with wars and invasions with impunity to bring these countries to follow its dictates. Since 1946 to the present US has attacked and invaded not less than 60 countries and imposed more than 70 wars on other countries in Europe, Asia including the Middle East Arab countries,  Africa, Central America and South America.

To further and strengthen its grip on other countries the United States has adopted many various forms of mechanism of power of control in the UN Organisation like the World Bank, IMF, World Trade Organisation, the World Health Organisation and the Petro Dollar. It uses its fake NGO ( Non-government Organisation ) the NED ( National Endowment for Democracy ) as a Trojan Horse to infiltrate into other countries military and police force to create choas and instabilities to carry out regime change that fits US agenda. The NED is under the direct control of the US terrorist organisation  CIA the toxic and diabolical US spy and intelligence agency which is not only responsible for espionage, murders, assassinations, creating upheavals, choas and instabilities for regime change  but also indulge in drug trafficking and smuggling in which it is a fact that CIA is the biggest drug and heroin trafficking organisation in the world. 

US a rogue state has by force of its military might arm twisted and coerced many countries to acquiese to US building of military bases in their countries which serve to further intimidate and threaten other neighbouring countries in the regions. But at last with the rise of Russia and China to challenge US evil hegemony and the growing awareness among all other non-white countries of the evilness and wickedness of the US wars of aggression and atrocities committed incessantly on victimised countries that US power to do evil may be curbed and eventually destroyed.

The world will definitely be safer, more peaceful and harmonious without the satanic United States.

Southernglory1

9/23/2021

No visitors allowed at all wards from Sept 24 for a month as more hospital workers, patients get Covid-19

 

A greater number of hospital staff members, patients and visitors are being infected by Covid-19, so all hospitals here will not be allowing visitors from Friday (Sept 24) until Oct 23 to curb the disease spread and reduce the strain on hospital bed capacity.

Higher-risk patients visiting emergency departments will have to undergo an antigen rapid test for the coronavirus.

The Ministry of Health (MOH) said in a press release on Wednesday that these tightened measures will apply to all public, community and private hospitals.

With the rise in community cases over the past weeks, the ministry said that it has detected more Covid-19 cases among hospital staff members, patients and visitors.

“The detection of these cases had led to ward closures and staff quarantine, which had impacted some hospitals, putting a strain on hospital bed capacity and staffing at a time when more hospital beds are ramped up to care for hospitalised Covid-19 patients,” MOH said.

The latest move will help to safeguard hospital capacity, it added.

Although visits to hospital wards will be suspended from this Friday to Oct 23, both dates inclusive, hospitals will make case-by-case exceptions for visitors of the following patients:

Patients who are in critical condition

Patients who are young children

Birthing or postpartum mothers

Patients requiring extra care support from caregivers such as those who are mentally incapacitated or family members who are undergoing caregiver training

Such patients will only be allowed one pre-designated visitor who may enter the ward once a day.

Patients in critical condition may have up to five pre-designated visitors with a maximum of two visitors at the patient’s bedside at any one time.

All visitors will need to produce a valid negative antigen rapid test or polymerase chain reaction test result obtained within the last 24 hours of each visit.

All visitors regardless of vaccination status must comply with the conditions except those who have recovered from Covid-19 and are able to present a valid pre-event test exemption notice.

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Visitors must also wear a face mask with good filtration capability such as surgical masks or two-layered reusable masks.

There must be no eating or drinking in the inpatient wards. Visitors must not use the patients’ toilets in the wards and must avoid sitting on patients’ beds.

TESTING AT EMERGENCY UNITS

From Friday, higher-risk patients, regardless of the vaccination status, must take a mandatory antigen rapid test at 24-hour emergency clinics or departments.

Higher-risk patients include:

Those who are on beds in emergency rooms for prolonged observation, whether in the short-stay unit or extended diagnostic and treatment unit

Those who are required to undergo mask-off assessment or procedures lasting for 15 minutes or more, or both

Visitors or caregivers accompanying patients during the observation period will also have to take an antigen rapid test

Accompanying persons may have to pay for the tests, depending on the hospitals.

MOH said that it has increased the frequency of surveillance testing for hospital workers, as well as vendors who work in the hospital, in order to identify at the earliest possible time the staff members who are infected with Covid-19.

Anonymous

9/22/2021

General heading Childhood Education

“Early childhood leadership certification is needed for preschool teachers to be qualified to be a principal. Even with a degree of early childhood and numerous ten years of experience does not qualify,” said a netizen. “So may I ask what kind of qualifications and pre-experience this general has in regards to early childhood? We are talking of education of your young children…not the army.” 

Meanwhile, Facebook user Catherine Dee asked if “retired generals could stop being allowed to lead ministries,” particularly those they have no experience in. “If the government really has to do this, please start them from the bottom to gain experience and work their way up first rather than dropping them from a helicopter,” she added in a comment liked by over 200 netizens. 

“Why doesn’t the ministry look at promoting someone with understanding, experience and track record in the sector instead of parachuting someone without the relevant experience or knowledge of the ground despite his impressive military credentials?” asked Facebook user Shermin Chen. 

“A military guy in early childhood education…and none of the existing early childhood education personal can take up…seriously…,” added a netizen.  theindependent.sg

BG Tan Chee Wee to be CEO of early Childhood Development Agency (ECDA). And this has raised eyebrows in the education industry and parents for obvious reasons.  The objections were understandable. Ask a foreign recruitment agency, they will throw out his application for lack of relevant experience and qualification. The general is so lucky that the govt did not contract the search agencies to go hunting for a foreign talent overseas. It was purely a parachute drop from the sky. Retired generals need not apply for jobs. Jobs would be offered to them, as CEOs here and there.

Look at the positive side, they are lucky that they did not appoint a third world funny graduate with funny experience from a funny university to take over this job, aka fake or cheat. If they did, the children would turn out funny as well, if not illiterate. Be grateful.

Another good thing that may come out from this is that the children will be well prepared for NS, with a good foundation in military jargons and way of life. The children are likely to be tougher than otherwise with boot camps modified as child play.

If one is prepared to look at the good side, there are many. If one is looking from the negative side, there will also be many, just like CECA. You can bet, just like CECA, the govt would have all the good things to say about this appointment.