Covid19 strategy - On hindsight

 On hindsight, being just a blogger, not our job to tackle the pandemic, not being paid millions to understand and come up with a sound strategy, with a team of experts to assist, it is fair that we can use the excuse of hindsight to look at what is happening and what could be the reason why we ended up here.

Anyone who thinks that we have done well must be out of his mind. And any silly bugger who said it could be worse, got to visit the IMH. We were the envy of the world, we were on the lips of world leaders in managing the pandemic and sitting pretty in Level 1, as one of the most successful country outside China containing the virus. Every country wanted to learn from us, wanted to have special entry lane for visitors with us. We could pick and choose who we want to let in under special arrangements. But that is history.

Where are we now, Level 4, a high risk country determined by our great friend the USA. We are as good as a basket case without admitting it. Countries are avoiding us. Level 1 and 2 countries would not want to have VTL with us as we are now high risk. It is a great achievement, like going from first world to third world and it needs very exceptional talents to make it happen overnight.

When we we sitting up there looking pretty and clean, what prompted the govt to choose between zero Covid or living with Covid, aka Level 1 or Level 4, between a safe country and a basket case country? Before the decision was made to go for living with Covid, what were the considerations in their minds? Why would we take the plunge into the mud hole when we were almost Covid zero? We were clean and safe, or was it a lie, that what the public knew was not the true picture and we were already in the shithole? This could be the main reason as the truth could not be hidden for long. We had let in too many Delta Variant visitors during the height of India's days of hell. For whatever stupid reasons, the Delta Variant is already in the community and there is no way out, it was breaking at the seams. So it was a case of no choice. There was no way to keep the infection down.

If we were really nearly Covid zero, who would be so stupid to suggest the option of living with the Covid and live with the huge spike in infection, hospitilisation and deaths? Any average person would have to insist on staying Covid free when we could and were almost there.

Imagine if we had kept it real low, maybe not Covid free but low enough, who do you think would be in the list of VTL countries? China, Hong Kong and Taiwan would provide us with enough Covid free tourists to fill up our hotels and tourist sites. Instead, we are now taking greater risk in including Level 3/4 countries to send their unsafe tourists here, and you know what, when many vaccinated are dangerous carriers of the virus but with no symptoms, are we being safe, being responsible to the safety and well being of our citizens?

Rubbish and highly dangerous visitors from Level 3 and Level 4 countries being let in to spread the virus if they happened to be carriers? High risk living and low thinking? I am not even looking at the numbers of fake certificates coming in. Were they able to verify the vaccination certificates as genuine?

Now who decided to go down this stupid path of living with the Covid when we were doing fairly well? Or who convinced or influenced MTF to go down this path? Any foreign interference or all voluntary, so self inflicted tragedy?

PS. With many countries in deep shit after choosing to go down the path of living with the virus, voluntarily, having lost control, or being influenced or mismanaged, a big part of the world would be together in this struggle for existence and pretending that this is the new normal, living with high infections, high hospitalisation and high number of daily deaths. They might even congratulate themselves for being 'able to live with Covid as a way of life' and sneering at China and some countries that are living inside their Covid free bubble. Poor China, still cannot live with Covid and have to be isolated from the world.

Two outcomes from this. The rest of the live with Covid countries can develop natural immunity and no longer be impacted by Covid, with Covid becoming a common flu, and infection, hospitalistion and death falling to insignificant level. That is the best outcome that living with Covid countries hope to achieve.

The second outcome, the herd immunity did not happen and the rest of the world would plod along like what it is today, restrictions on and off, lockdown on and off, infection, hospitalisation and death continue to be high.

China and Covid free countries would continue to live in their sanitised bubbles. Chinese people can travel out of China, but fully vaccinated. Foreigners going into China would be quarantined and to go through several stages of medical tests to make sure they don't spread the virus in China.

The world economy will chug along, China's economy would also chug along, but it would be a world divided, one free from the Covid disease, one diseased. Who is better off? China is big enough and does not need the tourist money and does not have to endanger its people with tourists from diseased countries flooding the country.

Covid-19 Singapore: Death Tolls Now Hit Double Digits - What A Wonderful Achievement!

The Minister of Health Ong Ye Kung and Multi-Ministry Task Force must be praising themselves for achieving such a wonderful (full of wonders) performance that everybody in Singapore (probably including the Prime Minister and the President) are wondering and wondering what the HELL is going on!!!???

Living with Covid-19 has become a nightmare to many old folks with underlying medical conditions. Some of them paid with their lives. They were killed by the COVID-19 via the courtesy of the very outstanding Millionaire Ministers staying in ivory towers, up in Cloud 99. The families of those "murdered" oldies must be thanking and also congratulating the Health Minister and the Multi-Ministry Task Force for doing such a wonderfool well-thought job.

Moreover, the daily casualties are now nearing 4,000 confirmed infections daily. Praise must also be given to the King of Kings (of Hades?).

The Stabilization Phase has become the Escalation Phase instead. How is it called the Stabilization Phase is terribly baffling, when cases of infections and deaths keep increasing?

Lies, more lies and statistics seem to be the modus operandi to some highly intelligent people. To them black can be white, and white can be black too. It is so simple. Just manipulate the data and convert them in percentages and then make comparison between apples and oranges, and then tell the world those are the "hard evidence" that Living with COVID-19 is working very well.

If that is not enough, create something called the Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) and extend the scheme to many highly infected high-risk countries and import more infected people in, so that new COVID-19 Variants can easily spread to the community and proliferate until the daily infections hit 10,000 cases? And deaths hit 100 per day? Another brilliant idea, brilliant experiment with the lives of others!

Clap! Clap! Clap!
What a wonderful achievement!


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The Return Of Taiwan To Motherland China Is Inevitable

The return of Taiwan to the Motherland, China, is inevitable. It is not and never will be negotiable. The KMT knows it very well. The DPP knows it too. The USA is very well aware of this but is intent on being belligerent and confrontational.

Tsai Yin-wen, the Japanese in disguise, and her gang of Japanese descendents in her pseudo political party DPP, have a hidden secret agenda to secede Taiwan for the evil Japanese Expansionist Regime in Tokyo.

They think China is sleeping and does not know that they are actually of Japanese origin and are bent on either to secede Taiwan to Japan or to destroy it entirely.

That's the main reason why Xi Jinping is so adamant to reunite Taiwan during his Presidency. No more passing the bucket to the next leader of China. A peaceful reunion is the best for everyone but it seems impossible because of Foreign Interference. Therefore, retaking Taiwan by force, economic or military, or both, has become a necessity than a choice. China therefore has to prepare for war, with the USA and its allies, in order to retake Taiwan. This is also inevitable.

Instigated and hurried on by the Western Powers and Japan, the incorrigible Tsai Yin-wen is playing with fire like the evil Whites and her Japanese Masters. Their evil intent is to destroy Taiwan before China could take it back. That's why she said that Taiwan will fight until the last drop of blood.

Total destruction of Taiwan so that China will have a hard time to rebuild it, even if it falls into China's hands. It is a self scotched earth scheme to deprive China of the fruits of her labour. This is the same as the Japanese concepts of
kamakasi and harakiri.

These Japanese descendents, same as their ancestors, are very aggressive, wicked and evil people living under the cloaks of a gentle and refined culture. They are the worst species of half-humans on Earth. Never trust them one bit. You trust them at your own peril.

China, must therefore be prepared for a quick and decisive victory in the retaking of Taiwan. Limit the number of casualties and physical destructions as much as possible. This can only be done by eliminating Taiwan's present political leadership and its military headquarters at the onset of China's military operations. Raids and assassinations at specific targets and guerrilla tactics must be used extensively prior to the main decisive battle, to cripple and weaken the will of the people and military commanders to resist.

Nevertheless, no matter what, China must be prepared for an all-out war in the Asia-Pacific. Only then can there be peace.

If you want peace, be prepared for war!


SSO - 20-10-2021.

P/S: A scorched earth policy is to burn down or destroy everything that can and may be useful to the enemy before withdrawal of own forces from the occupied territory, e.g. weaoons, vehicles, logistic supplies, installations, communications facilities, water resources, bridges, ports and infrastructures. To some horrendous half-humans, like the Japanese, they even killed themselves and their own people so that they cannot be utilised by the enemy forces.

 

Covid19 - How objective and scientific is the granting of VTL?

 Other destinations currently at Level 4 include Brunei, Malaysia, Thailand and the United Kingdom.

 The CDC advisory comes as Singapore began welcoming more fully vaccinated travellers on Tuesday, after extending its vaccinated travel lane scheme to eight more countries.

Fully vaccinated travellers from Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States will be able to enter Singapore without having to serve quarantine.

More than 2,400 people from these countries have been issued travel passes to enter Singapore as of Oct 13, with about 40 per cent of the passes issued to travellers from the United Kingdom.

Singapore launched its first two vaccinated travel lanes with Brunei and Germany last month. Its travel lane with South Korea will open in Nov 15.

South Korea is among countries with a “high level of COVID-19” currently at Level 3. Others in the same category include Australia, Indonesia, Japan, and Vietnam.

The travel advisory for India is at Level 2, indicating a “moderate level” of COVID-19. Unvaccinated individuals at risk of severe illness are advised to avoid non-essential travel to these places.

Among the Level 1 destinations identified by the CDC are China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and New Zealand. of these countries, Brunei, UK were classified as Level 4 countries, ie high risk. US is likely to be Level 3/4, South Korea is Level 3.

 

The above is quoted from CNA. To open up and welcome foreigners into this tightly packed city state is a risk that would eventually fall upon the population. So we would believe that very serious thoughts must be considered to grant certain countries this privilege. What would be the criteria? Infection rate, Level of risk, level of vaccination or business and political consideration?

The first two countries granted VTL status were Brunei and Gemany.  South Korea is the third. Subsequently 8 more were added, ie Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, Netherland, Spain, the US and UK.

What is strange is that countries in Level 1, very safe, like China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and New Zealand are not in the VTL. Also, India is also in Level 2, safer than Level 3/4, is also not in the VTL list.

Question, the VTL is granted because it is safer or because of other reasons? From the approved list it is clearly confusing and unconvincing that it was done objectively and based on scientific evidence.

What do you think?

Why are we letting in high risk visitors from Level 3 and Level 4 countries?

Logic of imbeciles?

PS. Did the MTF think people from high risk countries, or countries not in the approved VTL list could just go to these VTL countries, spend a fortnight there and fly straight to this silly little island to spread their virus? Possible?

Put the People’s Health First

China can’t look to Singapore for a way to live with Covid-19, health economist says

- There has been little public sign of support in China for a Singapore-style approach.
- the city state failed to contain cases when it eased restrictions
- the key to opening up is whether all countries have got transmission under control

Singapore’s “experiment” to live with the coronavirus – and its subsequent spike in infections – might not be a useful model for China as it considers whether to reopen its borders, a Chinese health researcher has said.

“This safety net protecting the health of 1.4 billion people did not come easily. We can’t let it go just like that,” Li Ling, from Peking University’s National School of Development, was quoted as saying by mainland news website Guancha.cn on Wednesday.

Restrictions in Singapore were reimposed in late September after cases surged and hospitals came under pressure. The restrictions, originally set to expire on Monday, will continue until November 21, Singaporean officials said on Wednesday after a record 3,994 cases were reported on Tuesday.

Li said Singapore’s strategy had failed to contain the number of cases and if similar conditions occurred in China, a country of 1.4 billion, “it would not be just a matter of 3,000 daily new cases”.

The key to China reopening was whether infections and new variants were under control in other countries.

“As long as one country cannot control the virus, no country can eliminate the threat of infection,” she said. 

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