Covid19 - Angry Singaporean standing up to discrimination on vaccination

 “Exceptionally desperate to boost inoculation rates so it could unabashedly pimp Singapore once more to all and sundry, this PAP government has resorted to an overtly underhanded strategy of discrimination based on vaccine status. Divide and conquer through engendering infighting amongst citizens, brilliant yet despicable. Well, I got news for you dear monkeys in white, your agenda shall fail miserably – because we have since realized you never cared whether we live or die; you would do whatever it takes just to flourish atop our bones.

When another of your inexplicably hurried, vacillating decisions to lift dining restrictions comes into effect next Tuesday, I shall take the first step of refusing to set foot inside restaurants. Rest assured I am not alone, for more than a dozen of my friends have pledged to do the same. And when word spreads, I have utmost faith many will follow suit to unequivocably demonstrate the fallibility of your judgement call.”
 

– Blue Blooded Specimen

This comment is copied from All Singaporean Stuff. The discrimination of the unvaccinated has reached a point of persecution when they are not allowed to return to work. This seems like a western discrimination policy on the use of vaccines, one for profit, more boosters when all the evidence is saying the western vaccines are not doing as they claimed, and the other not to use Chinese vaccines while they cornered the market.

If the policy of vaccination is fair and important, then all WHO vaccines must be treated equally. The West is trying to monopolise the vaccine market by muscling their allies and preventing them from using other vaccines that are just as effective if not more effective. It has been reported that the western vaccine manufacturers are making hundred of billions and would continue to make more by pushing their vaccines as boosters and even to the children.

This is another form of western colonisation and exploitation on the use of vaccines. 

Why is Singapore going head long with the western narrative and use of western vaccines and discriminating against the unvaccinated when the vaccinated are more dangerous as silent and super spreaders? The unvaccinated may protest, but this western scheme of compulsory vaccination would succeed when more are being forced by govt regulations to be vaccinated. The only time when this policy of bullying and discriminating against the unvaccinated would look silly would be when we reached near 100 per cent vaccinated and the infection and death rates soar and go out of control, confirming the uselessness of the vaccines. By then there would be no unvaxed left to be blamed for their compulsory stupidity and the fake vaccines.

Then the critics of this vaccination myth would have the last laugh at the morons and the imbeciles.

PS.

BUDAPEST: Coronavirus infections are hitting record levels in many countries across Europe as winter takes hold, prompting a call for action from the World Health Organization (WHO) which described the new wave as a "grave concern".

Soaring numbers of cases, especially in eastern Europe, have prompted debate on whether to reintroduce curbs on movement before the Christmas holiday season and on how to persuade more people to get vaccinated. CNA

Covid-19 is surging in Ireland where 99.7 percent are Fully Vaccinated…from an article in TRE

The Pathetic And Tragic State Of Singapore Voters

First they came for the Healthcare workers, but I was not a Healthcare worker, so I did not speak out.

Then they came for the Frontline and Essential workers, but I was neither, so I did not speak out.

Then they came for the Seniors and Oldies, but I was neither old nor a senior citizen, so I did not speak out.

And when they came for me, the Minority group of Unvaccinated, the Majority of the Vaccinated people refused to speak out for me.

Ask yourself, you belong to which group of "I" and who did you voted?

Singaporeans are basically kiasu and kiasi. Such a spineless people cannot stand when there is an invasion by another country. This has already been demonstrated by the CECA invasions over the last 15 years.

Even the Opposition, Workers' Party, is starting to tow the line conscientiously and religiously.

What hope is there, from here forward?

Anonymous

GST to pay for high medical cost

Gay: Sir, any chance that the GST increase be postponed since the people will be tightening their belt?

Heng, feeling indignant: The GST increase is to address rising health care cost due to an ageing population. We can spend, take on debt, and make our future generations pay for it. Is that fair?

Gay, stonewalled by such a high horsey response, tries another tack.

Gay: Sir, seems like the people will be paying to get us out of this hole. I understand we have a huge reserve, can’t we use that to tie us over?

Heng: I don’t foresee the need for an extra-ordinary budget.

So, there you have it. We are in safe hands.

Foong Swee Fong

 

Above is a quote from an article by Foong Swee Fong on why GST must be raised. Not sure if the question and answer narrative is real of just a satire. But it is not far from the truth as far as the govt's position on the need to raise GST to cover the rising cost of oldies needing more medical services and govt needing to pay or subsidise the rising medical cost.

Other than raising GST, it was suggested that the reserves be drawn down, of course not everything, but a limited sum that would not bankrupt the reserves. The answer is still no.

By the way, what is causing the medical cost to go up? Who is causing the medical cost to go up? If the rich want to have the best medical facilities and services, they can opt to go to private hospitals and pay for them.  For the general public, many cannot afford the luxury or want or need the luxury. They just need basic medical facilities and services, no need for 5 star hotel quality of care and services.

If only basic and necessary facilities and services are provided, why should medical cost be going up, up and up? And in terms of services, many of the medical stuff are from third world countries and their salaries are already a saving in cost. There is no need to pay for 5 star services to be served by third world staff.

Is the govt unable to control the rising cost in govt hospitals? Oh, oh, they are run like private hospitals, subject to supply and demand and commercial pricing....I see. The govt is hapless and cannot do anything, just like rising cost of living, rising prices of HDB, rising fees and charges.

 I rest my case. Cannot win an argument against the most talented millionaires aka the govt.

How much have been collected from the compulsory CPF Medical Insurance Schemes and how much have been paid out? Net loss or net gain? Or they are collecting now, from the people now, to pay for the future needs of the future generation?

Fuel prices are up, transport fares are up, what else is up in a crisis when many people are losing their jobs, businesses are closing downs, our nations of shopkeepers losing money everyday, our national treasure, the hawkers, not scientists or highly skilled professions, are also going broke. 

What does this tell of the financial health of the country, the national reserves? The billions they are paying the foreigners to manage our funds, what was the return, or what was the loss? Providing jobs to make foreigners millionaires using our reserves, how much did the millionaire foreigners bring in from their expertise, more or less than what we paid them?

If the return is so good, why the need to keep on raising fares and taxes in a time like this?

 

 

Why would a government be so stupid to remove the Estate Duties (or any duties and tax)?

 

There are no good reasons to want to remove the Estate Duties and unnecessarily lost a portion of the government's income. Unless, of course, the Tax Department is too lazy to do the tedious work of going through hundreds and thousands of pages of supporting documents and evidences to scrutinise and verify the Declarations made on behalf of the Deceased?

The official reason that was given for doing away the Estate Duties is that the amount collected from Estate Duties is too small and therefore the government can absorb the loss of this stream of revenue. This is absurdity!

But, but, but, think deeper.

This may not be absurd if the top people in government have something to benefit from it, isn't it?

Or, probably something they wish to hide from public scrutiny?

The removal of the Estate Duties does not only benefits the Millionaire Ministers, Top Millionaire Civil Servants and other filthy rich people in Singapore monetarily. Its removal also, at the same time, in one swift single stroke, did away with the Compulsory Declaration of ALL Assets held in the name of the Deceased and those being held by other people on his behalf, e.g. public or private company's and whatever foundation's assets and profits from which the Deceased could be a beneficiary.

All declarations are to include assets held in foreign land and locally.

By doing away with the Estate Duties, all those millionaires, billionaires and filthy rich people can hide their real worth, past false declarations, discrepancies, self-incriminating evidences, or illegal activities from the Inland Revenues Public Records. In other words, the public will never be able to scrutinise their past illegal actions and sins, if any.

What a masterstroke!


SSO.

Singapore Education - Chasing after meaningless glory at what price?

An update to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings for 2021 ranked the National University of Singapore (NUS) as the 6th most international university in the world, while Nanyang Technological University (NTU) comes in at 9th.

What does this mean?

Well, according to the THE website, the ranking of the most international universities takes into account a university’s proportions of international students, international staff, journal publications with at least one international co-authors, and a university’s international reputation. All these pillars are given equal weight in the calculation of rankings.

For clarification, a university’s international reputation is the measure of “the proportion of votes from outside the home country that the institution achieved in THE’s annual invitation-only Academic Reputation Survey”, according to the website.

Back in 2019, TOC raised a concern about the ratio of international to local students in autonomous universities—like NUS and NTU. Based on figures from the Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) website—a different yet equally respected global ranking—it seemed that about 25 percent of NUS’ spots went to international students. A similar ratio was recorded by QS for NTU.

This year, based on data from THE for 2021, about 26 percent of students at NUS are international students. THE records the number of full-time equivalent students enrolled in NUS at 30,493.

 

Above is quoted from singaporenewslive.com. Singapore now has the bragging right to be number 6 and number 9 in the world as international universities. So, what is so great about being ranked highly as an international university? Is it the same as useless piece of degree that cannot be eaten? As reported about, the ranking is based on number of international students and international staff. These two criteria means more university places for foreigners instead of Singaporeans, more international academic staff instead of Singaporeans.

We have often heard of the grievances of parents having to empty their life savings to send their childre overseas because they could not get into local universities, ie being deprived of the precious place by foreign students. And many local academics have lost their jobs to foreign academics. In the first case, who pays for the foreign students to study here, the foreign students or Singapore, how much it costs to bring in so many foreign students to steal the place that should rightly be reserved for Singaporeans, the children of tax payers?

Secondly, how many Singaporean academics have lost their jobs to foreign academics and ended up unemployed or underemployed? Why create good paying jobs for foreigners and places for foreign students just to have a fictitious and practically useless reputation of being a top rank international universities? Worth it? How much it cost to Singapore, to parents, how many jobs lost to Singaporeans that needed the jobs?

What is so good or so valuable or so financially rewarding to win such ranks? Is the cost worth it for such superficial glory? Can be eaten or not?

The cost over the years are in hundreds of billions and the pyschological and financial impact of this pro foreigner policy, at the expense of Singaporean students and good jobs for Singaporeans is another Uniquely Singapore Stupidity has no cure policy. Educating foreigners to steal our lunch, providing good jobs to foreigners instead of Singaporeans just for a stupid, meaningless ranking.

What do you think? Should billions of public money be spent on this stupid and useless title of being a top international university at the expense of university places for our tax paying Singaporeans and the loss of good jobs for our own academics?