Covid19 - Would Singapore become a mini India, a basket case?

 5 days in a row with more than 3,000 infected cases. Sat was the highest with 3,703 cases and 11 deaths in a day! Looking at this number it seems small compares to neighbouring countries with 8,000 to 10,000 cases. Having 3,000 cases daily are now normal. Without proper and systematic testing, with so many people just stay at home or in the dormitories, how many cases are there really?

India now has about 20,000 daily cases and soon would have no cases in a matter of days. But India has a population of 1.3b.

If we extrapolate this, how many cases would Singapore have if its population is 1.3b? India's worse case was 400,000 daily. At 3,500 daily cases, Singapore would have an equivalent of 800,000 daily cases!

The big question is when would Singapore become a basket case like India, when hospitals are fully filled and patients are all over the place? When that happens, given this trajectory, the whole world would shun Singapore.

At one time Singapore proudly went around selectively to open special travel corridors with countries with small numbers of infection. Now this is not going to happen. Though many are deceived by the nominal 3,500 daily cases, and still some are talking about vaccinated travel lanes with Singapore, the counterparts are likely from countries that have lost control of the virus.

Do not be surprised that this could be only temporary as the cases could explode and all countries would be issuing travel warnings to avoid Singapore.

Let's pray that the millionaire magicians are right or Singapore would be a mini India with more cases per million, could be the highest in the world.

Would this become a norm, that Singaporeans are not welcome?

 

This news could be a rude warning of more to come if the infection rate in Singapore continues to grow. The MTF is planning and thinking that the virus infection would be within their expectation and manageable and would not run wild, reach a reasonable and acceptable level to other countries. If this is not the case, Singapore would be in for deep trouble. Instead of opening up the economy and receiving more visitors, no one would come except for the lepers and desperadoes.Now it is up to the virus and the unseen hands.

Trump - In praise of China, and telling the Americans how shitty America is today

 Trump gave a mid-term campaign speech for the next presidential election yesterday, which is worth watching by every Chinese!

[Google translation; reporter’s text in Chinese below] (words in inverted commas and bold are mine).

Trump's presidential campaign speech yesterday was as follows:
The United States has promoted democracy(dictatorship and regime change) around the world for two decades. What have we gained? In the past two decades, we have regarded ourselves as international police and democracy fighters and have vigorously promoted democracy. (or a rogue nation inciting wars and instability?)

With guns and US dollars, we Americans have successively defeated(murdered) Saddam in Iraq, Gaddafi in Libya, Syria, Egypt, Ukraine, Turkey, and Greece within two decades. 

May I ask what we Americans got.(hate) Our businessmen dare not go to the Middle East and Africa to do business, dare not play the national flag in the Brazil Olympics, and in the oil producing areas of the Middle East, as long as they admit that they are Americans, it is a direct act of death. (murderers of innocent women and children would be killed for sure) Offended Putin, offended the European Union, offended China. (white savage cannot change their offensive behaviour) 

We, the United States, which controls high technology, can't do anything with China in international trade, so we have to abandon the WTO and engage in TPP. Please see what China has gained in the past two decades. Not only did they take away our first place in the WTO, they also bought 80% of the world’s steel, 40% of oil and gas, 70% of soybeans, and 80% of copper. And gold, bought Ukrainian aircraft carriers, Israeli missiles, German machine tools and French wine. He bought it all in U.S. dollars. (because Americans printed them freely) 

They bought our food, sold us spicy noodles and instant noodles, bought our steel, and sold us bikini underwear. Bought our oil and sold us toys. This is not the main thing. China’s internationalization of the renminbi directly uses US dollars as a guarantee. Even if the renminbi is worthless, it can be exchanged for US dollars immediately. 

Everyone knows that they have a lot of US dollars, more than us. Damn, Africa was taken away by them, this is our end. 

I absolutely do not support Obama's TPP. I want to make the Democratic Party's Obama and Hillary the biggest fools in American history. I will be your next president. Please support me. We want to be glorious and independent. We want to live a good life with whomever has the money to do business. 

In the past two decades, the suicide rate in rural China has dropped by 90%, the illiteracy rate has dropped to less than 10%, and life expectancy has increased by more than 10 years. Private cars have gone from zero to national traffic jams. High-speed rail has accounted for 70% of the world and soon 500,000 people cities would have high speed rail links. Every city has high-speed rail links, highways from nothing to more than two thousand counties, the world’s longest bridge, the tallest bridge, and the most difficult bridge. 

 New York, which is about to catch up with us, will have to be divorced and snatched. The Chinese are anxious if they don’t travel to any country. If the Chinese don’t buy, the world’s iron ore and oil will plummet. What’s more annoying is that there are basically no terrorist activities that dare to carry out in China.(not even American terrorists) ...

The United States has become a hopeless country living on a huge dollar bubble... Vote for me, only I can save this terrible United States!

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Even the President of the United States treats China this way. Why do we not love our motherland? Chinese people, unite, fight for the rejuvenation of China, and build the steel great wall of the motherland together. ////Repost it to your friends - Chinese people must repost it! Thank you Trump for advertising us in the world for free.

Above was posted by Virgo as a comment. This is the most honest speech from this mafia boss of the USA, an admission that America has gone down the gutters and surpassed by China. 

Trump promised if he is reelected, he would make America worst, and become the laughing stock of the world, and add the title of the world's number one gangster to being the world's number one terrorist country.

CPF is my money, we need good jobs - Angry Ah Lian let it all out

 

Angry Ah Lian blasting the govt for not returning the people's saving in the CPF and bringing in foreigners to replace PMETs, causing many Singaporeans to lose their jobs to foreigners.

How many angry Ah Lians and Ah Bengs, Alis and Muthus are out there feeling the pain of being unemployed or underemployed?

How many uncles and aunties are there crying for their CPF money?

Singapore really so rich, so much reserves but have to hold on to the people's life savings and creating all kinds of schemes to suck away this money?

Any moral issues on keeping the people's life savings from them? Think sure no legal or human rights issues as the law fraternity did not say anything.

What do you think?

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.

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