COVID-19 Is Worse Than War And Should Be Managed As Such

This Pandemic is like a war. The government should have been on war-footing, instead of being so relaxed and happily going lucky, monitoring and reacting, and keeping the fingers crossed. Waiting for hindsight to make decisions and hoping for a miracle to happen.

In fact, this Pandemic is worse than war. In a war setting, we can see the enemy forces' deployments through good reconnaissance and intelligence. But in this case, the enemy has already invaded our country and is invisible, invincible and everywhere, attacking our people every day without fail or fear.

There is no way to find out where and when, and who and how it is going to attack before it happens.

There is no possibility of assessing how many casualties we are going to suffer and how serious the casualties will be, before hand.

Therefore, there should have an Operations Centre set up at every level - right from the very top at the PMO to the Grassroot level at every community centre, manned 24 hours round the clock, on 3 shifts. All the MPs should be incharge of their respective community centres instead of being so divorced from this national and international disaster.

At every ministry, police station, hospital, polyclinic and airport, sea port, bus interchanges and MRT Station, there should also be an Operation Centre too.

What are the Ops Centre supposed to do? They serves as a network of Tentacles, branching to every loop and corner, to control, coordinate, monitor and supervise Covid-19 related activities, regulations, information and emergencies; preventing large scale infections before they happen or arresting the spreading before it is too late. Nipping the problem at the bud instead of fire-fighting after the fire has started to spread.

The SAF, the Civil Defence and the Police must be mobilised to help out on a 24/7 daily basis, at every Operations Centre. Remember, this is war!

All the above and more should have been organised and done from the very beginning, in March 2020. Why are they still not done is a $200 billion question.

Becoming millionaires with so much power so easily has caused complacency and incompetence? Resulting in always trying to find the easy, lazy or crazy way out? Looks like it.

This pandemic has definitely exposed the good, the bad and the ugly across the board. No way to hide. The wise people know.

SSO

COVID-19: When And How To Open Up

COVID-19: When And How To Open Up

When more and more people are sickened by COVID-19 all the time, or killed by COVID-19, where is the need for jobs? Only when people can stay healthy and kicking then they can work. Then they need jobs.

Yes, open up is necessary at some point in time. But when and how you open up is the key point. Better be safe than be sorry and regret. You open up too early, you risk going back to square one again and again. And if you are careless and reckless by not considering all the probabilities, you will also go back to square one, or even worse off. You may not recover

You can't simply say, "Now that we have 82% vaccinated, we can treat the Pandemic as Endemic, and starts a new normal".

If this COVID-19 virus has not taught you to be careful, then you have wasted one and half years of our precious and difficult time.

You can't carelessly open to any country 'Quarantine-Free', just because they can show you a piece of paper showing that they have been vaccinated. That paper most probably could be fake or improperly authorized through, bribery. Are you do gullible?

You can't be reckless by being blinded by your zeal to kick-start the economy as early as possible, just because 82% of people have been vaccinated. The full vaccination lasts only 3-6 months, not forever. The vaccinated are still being infected and killed. More than 50% to 60% of those who died were among the vaccinated group. So, Vaccination must not be a free ticket to everything. The vaccinated can still spread the virus to both the unvaccinated and the other vaccinated.

You are dealing with the Coronaviruses
not with the people, vaccinated or not. The important thing is to be very careful with the Coronaviruses. Very careful not to allow carriers of the Coronavirus to enter our country and spread it everywhere they go.

You must not let your guards down at all times, whether open up or locked down.

Masks, safe distancing, washing of hands, group activities limitation, testing and Quarantine are necessary. Once you let any of these be removed, you are reckless. You are asking for troubles again.

The Coronavirus is waiting like a hawk above you, like a ghost next to you, and like a swarm of bees around you, waiting for you to make the slightest mistake, the slightest opening, to allow it to strike. It strikes without mercy, without any care of who you are, what you are or where you are. It simply loves to infect you, the careless ones, the reckless ones.

The Coronavirus is not going to abide by your beautifully dreamt up plans or forceful orders. It will give you its middle finger/spike and bulldoze its way through whatever flimsy perimeter fence that you may have put up.

What we must do at all times:

1. Respect the COVID-19 Coronavirus.

2. Fear the COVID-19 Coronavirus. Don't dismiss it as insignificant and think that it cannot infect you. The PM told you not to let fear paralyze you. That's correct. But fear you must have. Otherwise, you will not respect the Coronavirus. Otherwise, you will not keep the safe distance. Otherwise, you will not be bothered to wear a mask or to wear it properly. Otherwise, you will become careless, reckless and heartless. Fear is a very good friend. Don't dismiss it. But also don't be paralyzed by it.

3. Be on guard all the times, like your life depends on it. Wear your mask all the time, in a proper way. Wash your hands. Keep safety distance, etc.

4. Be considerate not to transmit it to fellow Singaporeans, especially the oldies. When you feel you are sick, stay at home. Quarantine yourself. Get help if necessary.

If the whole population of people are fully educated, disciplined and willing to abide by the above 4 rules, then we can slowly and cautiously open up.

You don't open up just because you have 82% of people vaccinated! That is a lousy basis to based on. Vaccination with pseudo vaccines effective only 3-6 months, gives you a false sense of security and safety. We must not fail into that trap knowingly.

LIPS


LIPS

China strategically blessed by heaven to be the biggest beneficiary of this pandemic...to become the next number one super power

 Is it the will of God or heaven that China today is the most blessed country in the world, and the pandemic, humanly designed to kill the Chinese people and to destroy China is actually helping China to grow at a dramatic pace while the rest of the world are trapped in a vicious cycle of going no where?

The path China has taken, to be virus free, is now the envy of the world. Not only has China defeated the virus, it has saved a lot of lives inside China, and the rest of the world. China is now like a bubble of hope and peace, with the Chinese people living a virus free life and going about their life activities normally. Economic activities, manufacturing and factory production go on and on, producing the goods that the world needs, with no interruption. China is now the only country that is sustaining the lives of the people of the world in full steam ahead.

The virus is like a big jailor's ball chained to the legs of many countries. Life is anything but normal. Factories cannot function normally and production capacities a pale form of its former self. The needs for basic and essential goods did not go away.  People need to live and need to survive. And all have to look to China for whatever they need. If china has taken the same shortsighted and dangerous path of living with the virus like the reckless and irresponsible West, its production capacity could be halved of what it is now, and the rest of the world would suffer as well.

Thanks to China, the world's needs for essential services and goods continue to flow out from China to allow life to go on with minimal disruption. In this disorderly world bogged down by the virus, China is still firing all its economic engines, isolated from the rest of the world but with the supply chain unbroken to serve and service a world struggling to breathe.

What a blessing for China and the Chinese people, and also indirectly a blessing for the less fortunate people of the world. Many people of the world must be grateful that there is China, safely out there doing the necessary to assist them and provide for their needs. But there are stubborn exceptions. In a troubled world, there are still warmongers and savages out there mucking around, inciting and instigating for a world war. Unfortunately or fortunately, China is now in the position of the Americans at the height of their blessing, when the world was at war, American homeland was at peace and happily going about their life. The world is now at war with the virus but the Chinese are at peace, happily going about their life.

This blessing for the Americans, the divine right or manifest destiny, has been removed and transferred to China. China is now like a favourite child being shielded from the turmoil and devastating effects of the virus on all human activities, no country is spared, not the USA, not its allies, not Europe. See the big picture? The ascend of China is in the safe hands of heaven.

And China does not need to open up, and can continue in this mode without missing a beat. It can still produce and sell to the world. It does not need tourist income and does not need tourists to bring in the virus with them like some desperate countries needing the tourist trade.

Any wonder why these savages are having unending troubles with the virus in their homeland?  Yes, to prevent them from creating more mischiefs and starting wars of mass destruction every where. The misfortune of the warmongers and savages is a big contrast to the blessings of the Chinese people, living normally, protected by invisible hands under heaven.

God is great. The good would be blessed. Strange but comforting.

In the meantime the war between the West versus East in the choice of vaccines continues, with the West continuing with the narrative that western vaccines are good, eastern vaccines are bad and they would only believe and use western vaccines. Would this war lead to the disappearing of a civilisation and the flourishing of another? As far as the West is concerned, never touch the Chinese vaccines, no matter how good they are. Just continue smearing Chinese vaccines, continue with the white lie that western vaccines are the good stuff, die, die must use western vaccines. Would they be destroyed by their own vaccines because of their political deranged belief of superiority and pride?

Is this a war of East versus West or good versus bad?

Sino-India Border War Looms as Talks Fail

India has been consistently provoking small troubles at the border and increasing troop numbers, infringing upon China's territory and sovereignty

China and India held the 13th round of corps commander-level talks on Sunday, during which India insisted on unreasonable and unrealistic demands, adding difficulties to the negotiations, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Western Theater Command said in a statement released on Monday.

China has made tremendous efforts to ease and cool down the border situation and fully demonstrated its sincerity, the statement said.

China's determination to safeguard sovereignty is unwavering, and China hopes India will not misjudge the situation and take actions with sincerity to safeguard the peace at the border, according to the statement.

The Indian military not only obstructed a routine patrol by Chinese border troops on September 28, it also fabricated rumor that "Chinese soldiers were detained for crossing the borderline" via the mouthpiece of the Indian media.

Chinese military warned the Indian army and media not to mistake China's restraints over such rumors as tolerance for slander.

India media News18 cited government sources as saying on Friday that the Indian army temporarily detained a few Chinese troops in Zangnan area of southern Xizang (Tibet) for "incursion" in this area. The Chinese military source said Chinese border troops conducted a routine patrol on September 28 in the Dongzhang area on the Chinese side of the Sino-Indian border and encountered "unreasonable obstruction" from the Indian military.

The incident in the Dongzhang area, where the Indian army obstructed the Chinese border troop's routine patrol, shows India's deliberate provocation and distortion of facts as it did on last year's border skirmish in which 20 Indian soldiers died in a barefist fight with Chinese martial arts soldiers in the Galwan Valley in June 2020

China's border regions with India have been facing pressure of being encroached by the Indian side. For instance in 2001, Indian troops tore down a bridge leading to a holy waterfall in Dongzhang region in Shannan city of Xizang, where Chinese residents could take water there, and set up a military checkpoint by the river. Indian troops were also garrisoned at a grassland in Dongzhang, driving Chinese herders out.

At southeastern region of Xizang, villagers complained that Indian troops and residents have crossed the border several times. The Indians have been trying to "claim their existence" by painting slogans on big rocks.

The Indian government, military and media habitually create an illusion for the Indian public that the Indian army is taking the upper hand in everything.

But Chinese troops would not step back in any circumstances and is ready to give the Indian military a bloody nose.. 

Anonymous

COVID-19 Singapore: Haphazard Adhoc Measures Caused More Pain Than Help

The whole government seems to show a severe lack of coordination between ministers and ministries. This is likely the result of having three co-chairmen but no leader to control the Multi-Ministry Task Force. How can one have a Task Force without a Force Leader? Who is to make the final co-ordination and decision? Who is to lead the Task Force? At least a Senior Minister or the Deputy Prime Minister should be heading the Task Force, isn't it?

There is obviously no one coordinating all the proposals, ideas, options, measures and protocols.

The PM seems to have switched off or fallen asleep on his desk for the last 22 months. He had said during the last election hastings, in July 2020, that he would continue to lead the country until the COVID-19 Pandemic situation has improved. But after the election, he was seldom to be heard, seen nor found. Except for the few occasional speeches, he seems to be in hibernation or on a holiday mood, while his wife actively making postings on her Facebook pages, giving updates and directions on COVID-19 and Vaccination. Perhaps on behalf of him? Operating by proxy or 'remote control'?

The fact is that in any country, the whole COVID-19 Pandemic cannot be handled by just the Multi-Ministry Task Force alone. It has to involve all the Ministers and Permanent Secretaries of all the Ministries. Simply because it affects the whole country, the whole population and all walks of life.

In the last 22 months, there has been a series of flip-flopping, up and down, open-shut, and like changing underwear, decisions, measures, protocols and procedures. All actions seems like the 'suka-suka' way of doing things that small kids are used to do.

Instead of helping us, all these crazy and lazy changes have in fact made us more confused, frightened and upset. In other words, giving us more headaches and pains, instead of consoling us and eliminating or lessening our difficulties and lighten our loads, especially financial, mobility, communication, health and anxiety. 

 It is about time, the Multi-Ministry Task Force be disbanded and the whole Pandemic or Endemic (whatever you want to call it, it makes no difference really; the virus is determined to spread far, wide and deep, causing sickness and death) should be handed by the Cabinet, led by the Prime Minister. There should be a Cabinet Coordinating Meeting every day, and an All-Ministries Meeting every week, with both the Ministers and the Permanent Secretaries attending. This is the only way to function at the very top level until the whole COVID-19 situation has subsided and the returned to normal way of life.

Just my humble recommendation. Take it or leave it, its up to you. You are the King.

LIPS



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