COVID-19 Singapore: Why Make Vaccination Voluntary When You Mean Vaccination Is Compulsory!?

During a press conference on 23 Oct, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung, who is also Co-Chair of the Leaderless Multi-Ministry Taskforce, said:

“I think such selective quoting of data — 40 per cent of ICU beds occupied by vaccinated individuals, therefore vaccines don't work — I think this is selective use of data to mislead people. And it's a disservice to people.

As I've said before, if the whole or 100 per cent of our population is vaccinated, every single ICU case, every single death case will be vaccinated. It doesn't mean vaccines don't work. What you need to look at is the incidence rate, what is the base.

Unvaccinated seniors make up 1.5 per cent of Singapore’s total population, but they accounted for two-thirds of occupancy in ICUs and deaths over the last 28 days.

So do get yourself vaccinated, and be careful of misleading WhatsApp messages and poor math.”


From that speech, Health Minister Ong Ye Kung has again told people to get themselves vaccinated.

In the past one year, the PM, the PM's Wife, the Multi-Ministry Task Force, the Experts Committee and the Health Ministry have been painstakingky advising, encouraging and pointedly telling people (especially those who have not been vaccinated) to go and get vaccinated.

So much efforts and restrictive measures have been deliberately put up at discriminating against those who are unvaccinated (for their own protection?) to make life more difficult for them living in Singapore.

Why go to such a great extent to advise, encourage and persuade Singaporeans and Residents to go and get themselves vaccinated?

Why don't simply declare that VACCINATION IS COMPULSORY?

Why go round and round in circles and make all of us look like clowns in a circus?

What is there to stop or prevent the powerful government of Singapore to chicken out from declaring "VACCINATION IS COMPULSORY FOR EVERYONE!"???

There are so many things that have been made Compulsory in Singapore. This is nothing new. Adding one more Compulsory Decree in the Long List of Compulsory Decrees will not make any eyebrow raised.

Come on, for goodness sake, for simplicity, just say what you meant to say, i.e.

"VACCINATION IS NOT VOLUNTARY, VACCINATION IS COMPULSORY!"

And everything will be alright. Everyone will understand. Everyone will go and get vaccinated. And the Ministers and Government will have good sleep every night.

Please reconsider.

If you can reconsider to include Sinovac in the National Vaccination Program, why not reconsider this? I believe our leaders are very flexible and adaptable people. Please think again.

Cheers! Have a nice day!

P/S: Of course, those who are medically unfit to take the vaccines can be exempted from this compulsion.


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Asean slipping down dangerously into the path of political interference

 Asean's position on Myanmar has toughen and getting louder and more audacious as if it is another godly organisation enarmoured with infallible virtues and telling Myanmar what and how to behave as a honourable and respectable country, what it can do and what it cannot do. This smack of hypocrisy smells strongly of political interference in the likes of Americans poking into the internal affairs of every country in the world in the name of freedom, democracy, human rights, rule of law, racial equality, etc etc.

The Americans did not believe in any of these values when applied to coloured people even in their own country. Americans declared themselves to be above the law using the mischievous lies of American Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny.  They are the chosen race by God to rule over the world, to teach the world how to live decently. But they themselves need not live decently. They can commit all the crimes in the world against humanity and decency, murders, massacres, genocides, cheating, lying, stealing, creating the most fearful oppressive organisations like the CIA, nuclear arsenal, mightiest armed forces, military bases around the world to control and oppress the world to do their biddings, while they remain as the master race. They can do no wrong, violate no law, they are above the law. Their laws are for the ruled, the subjects of the American Empire.

What is Asean but a mixed bag of mud, not clean white sands. Asean has all the elements of the dark side in their history and even today, with practically every country harbouring all kinds of political sickness and inequality of one form or another. Asean is not the best organisation to think it is the right organisation to pass judgement on its fellow members, violating its own charter of non interference in the political affairs of member nations. This act is blatantly an interference in Myanmar's internal affair.

The Americans are using all the fake values they did not believe in or live by to control and dominate the world for American supremacy and the American Empire. Using these as excuses, they poke their fingers into every country's internal affairs, to mess up countries, conduct regime change, wars of invasion, political assassination, economic sanctions etc etc....all to manipulate and control the world.

Why is Asean doing this to Myanmar? Is Asean now under the control of the USA and using the American political playbook of interfering into the internal affairs of Myanmar to control Myanmar? When this unethical code of conduct is accepted as Asean's way of inter state relations, Asean is no difference from the Americans and the Europeans. Once Asean accept this and let it become a precedent, there is no end to political interference among Asean states. Asean states must look into the mirror and see the flaws in their domestic politics and stop the hypocrisy of playing white Gods like the Americans, that they are so clean, beyond reproach. 

The politics of every Asean country is so fragile and full of controversies and it is best that Asean countries should stop meddling in the internal affairs of fellow Asean members. Just examine the hands of Asean leaders, you will know they are not clean. Whatever they think they are accusing Myanmar of, or unhappy with Myanmar, it could happen to them tomorrow. Some of the political injustices are already existing in the present moment in some Asean countries but chose not to see, now to know.

Asean must stop its hypocrisy and immediately ceases its hostility towards Myanmar, very likely playing according to the American master mind behind the scene. The puppet master is very happy with the performance of Asean, behaving and acting more and more like the puppet master.  It is a voluntary or stupid act in interference and control of fellow member states, opening the door to internal strife and division, weakening the foundation of Asean, of what and why Asean was started in the first place.

Is Asean allowing the Americans to use some of its members to sow discord among themselves and undermine its unity as an unique regional organisation? If so, it would soon be torn apart by internal conflict and disagreement. Meddling with another member's domestic politics was taboo but now some seems acceptable and a new norm for Asean.  

Soon Asean could be renamed as SEATO, if it is not careful.

COVID-19 Singapore: Why Is The Healthcare System Still So Unprepared For A Major Health Crisis?

“At the current situation, we face considerable risk of the healthcare system being overwhelmed,” said Lawrence Wong, Co-chair of the Multi-Ministry COVID-19 Task Force.

MOH reported last month that about 100,000 people aged 60 and above were yet to be vaccinated.

About 100 of them are being infected each day. The numbers may seem small but with a health system limited in size, this is a big number.

Shockingly and surprisingly, for such a rich and advanced country, Singapore has only 200 ICU places!

Despite more than a year and half have past, the government has done nothing to expand the Hospitals ICU capacity and capability?

Moreover, Singapore has only about 1650 isolation beds and this limitation has also not been expanded.

There was a new daily high of 18 deaths in Singapore on Wednesday - as well as a near record 3862 new cases - and the unvaccinated elderly accounted for more than two-thirds of patients who had passed away from the virus or were in the ICU, Health Minister and fellow taskforce co-chair Ong Ye Kung said.

The fact is that out of the 100,000 seniors not vaccinated, the total number of recent deaths do not even account for 1% of 100,000. Moreover, those seniors who succumbed were those who have underlying medical conditions.

So, the focus on the unvaccinated seniors is a frivolous pursuit. All the energy, attention and focus, and propaganda and coercion, to get the unvaccinated seniors to go for vaccination, despite continuing to insist that Vaccination Is VOLUNTARY, could be better spent on how to improve the hospitals capacity and capability in taking care, treating and helping the seniors to recover and get well.

Every life is important. Every life is precious. No matter it's an infant or a 100-year-old person, every life deserves equal medical attention and treatment. Every life deserves to be saved, as far as possible.

The most ruthless, cruel and inhuman is to let the oldies die prematurely as a result of one's personal or national economic agendas.


LIPS.

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!


LIPS