46% of driving and delivery workers have diplomas or degrees

The traditional economy workers have invested enormous resources like time and money in obtaining these skills and they would want to be compensated for them.

Although COVID-19 may have upended assumptions about work and life, driving and deliveries, dependent on effort, orders and changing conditions, seem hardly suited to workers in full-time roles who want more stability and structure in their jobs.

Such workers also generally do not need much formal education and extensive work experience to perform their roles.

Among Singapore’s own-account workers whose gig work is their main job, 54 per cent had non-tertiary education, 19 per cent had diploma or professional qualification and 27 per cent had a degree....

While the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) 2020 Labour Force Survey shows that there are more residents who do own-account work on a non-preferred basis — 37,400 in 2020 compared to 21,500 in 2019 — this number is smaller than the pre-pandemic level of 46,700 in 2017....

The same MOM survey showed that while 52 per cent of own-account workers faced challenges at work in 2020, primarily because of the pandemic, only 12 per cent of this group sought employee work as a solution.   CNA

The above quotes showed that 46% of drivers and delivery workers have either diploma, professional qualification or degree.  Of these, 27% are university graduates. Isn't this sad? This is a clear case of under utilisation of our limited trained manpower, a big waste of human resources. They could be easily employed in proper full time jobs that are now filled by foreigners, many with lesser qualifications, lesser experience or funny qualifications. This is a big and unforgiveable injustice to our very own citizens. Many of the job and employment data were covered up by the misuse of terms like residents, locals to hide the plight of our marginalised citizens. 

Maybe the citizens deserved to be in such a pathetic plight for wrongly electing people that think their duties are to provide jobs for foreigners aka residents/locals, instead of the citizens. It may be cruel to say serve them right, but until they vote wisely, they can only wallow in self pity to continue to be drivers and delivery boys and girls despite their qualifications and experience. 

How could this state of affair be accepted for so long and the docile and frighten sheep not even dare to baa when their livelihoods are affected, the quality of life of their family members are adversely affected? When people are crying and complaining that less than a million the quality of life of their families would be affected, and our drivers and delivery boys and girls would not dare to complain that their quality of life is also affected?

The Singaporeans are destined to be dumped into the dustbin of history and their country taken over by foreigners. Bring in more foreigners please, good for the economy. Oh, cannot call them foreigners, call them locals or residents.

PS. These days, I see a lot of feedbacks on social media, WSG and job related social media that a lot of local graduates from local schools are finding it very hard to land even interviews. Abundance of PMETs who lost their jobs during the pandemic have failed to land any interviews after thousand of applications. The age of PMETs being unemployed due to pandemic or lost their jobs is getting younger. An article quoting 36 year old diploma sending over 1000 applications to look for clerical job found nothing. But you see the establishment created some stories about PMETs wanting $10,000 job and waited for three years and downgrade to $3000 but still waiting. You see abundance of Internet Brigades using this story to persuade public that Singaporeans are choosy bypassing the actual issue that there is not enough jobs for 9.9M population nor 5.6M population.

The reality is more and more locals are downgrading or encourage to downgrade after 30s to self employed jobs like PHV, Food Delivery and self employed like hawker, insurance and real estate. The establishment even promoted a new Diploma in hawking, isn’t it? From many years, the ministers kept saying, “Don’t study degree if you cant eat it!”. Do you think they did not see this coming? Or we are the only ones who refused to heed their advice?

These are intro paragraph of an article by a Mdm Tan posted in TRE titled, 'Naive Parents Pressing Local Kids To Study Hard'

An Open message to Taiwan Chinese Compatriots

The solidarity and unity of all Chinese people is essential and crucial to the survival of the great Chinese people  and civilization especially at this time of great danger in which the United States and its Western allies have every evil intention to contain China's rise and peaceful development to eventually bringing China down to its knees to face death and destruction.

 Both the Chinese in Taiwan and Mainland China belong to one and the same family being descendants of the great Yellow Emperor -Huang-Ti and of the great Chinse nation and Civilization.

Taiwan Chinese compatriots should not be deceived by the traitors of the Chinese people and the Chinese nation. These traitors in the DPP party have comitted treason against the Chinese people and country. The traitors in the DPP party are not Chinese. They are the descendants of the former Japanese occupation military and administrative personnels who surreptiously chose to stay back in Taiwan under the guise of Chinese with assumed Chinese names under temporal Chinese citizenship for convenience of subversion of Chinese society in Taiwan.

These traitors have infiltrated into Chinese society and took control of the DPP. They claim they are fighting to preserve freedom, democracy and human rights. They are actually the Japanese fifth column in Taiwan and the lap dogs of the evil empire of the U.S. They are fighting to preserve their power and at the appropriate time they will hand over Taiwan to Japan which will then officially annex Taiwan again for the second time as a province of Japan.

Do not be deceived by their slogan and propaganda that they are fighting for freedom, democracy and human rights. These traitors are not qualified to interprete freedom, democracy and human rights in twisted ways to suit their own selfish and self-interests perspectives..

Do you know what freedom, democracy and human rights the Chinese had when Japan invaded the Chinese island archipelago of Liu Chiu-dao ( renamed Okinawa by Japan ) in 1875, Taiwan in 1905 and Mainland China from 1931 to 1945. During these periods of Japanese invasion and occupation from 1875 to 1945 , the Japanese committed endless  cruel and brutal crimes and atrocities against the Chinese people and mercilessly butchered, slaughted and genocided about a hundred million Chinese people. Like the Western powers Japan tried to enslave the Chinese people. We Chinese people must unite and stop Japan from taking any more of Chinese territory.

The Western powers the Europeans and the United States have always connived with Japan to bully the Chinese people. From the 1830s to 1930s the Western European powers and the US were in cahoot with Japan to carve out Chinse territories for colonial and imperial exploitation. This was a painful period when they depraved Chinese of any respect, honour and dignity. This was the period when the West and Japan taking advantage of China's weakness joint forces to destroy the Chinese nation and the Chinese people. Did they talk to the Chinese about freedom, human rights and democracy when they were ravaging China with brutal invasions, exploitation, imposing illicit war indemnities that impoverished China for over a century,  merciless killings and genocide of the Chinese people. Dr. Sun Yat-Sen was spurned by the US and the West when he appealed to them for help to build up his young republic, the Republic Of China - ROC. They openly said they saw no benefit in helping to build a strong and united China where they could no longer exploit. So the present talk by the US and its  Western allies about protecting Taiwanese Chinese is a shameless scam. Let it be clear a China that is strong, rich and powerful under any type of government be it democracy, liberal democracy, liberal Darwinist capitalist democracy, democratic socialist or communist will never be acceptable to the Europeans, the caucasians, the Anglo-Saxons of US and UK. The Western powers, the Anglo-Saxons of US and UK are white supremacists who always assume they are a superior race and so they make no attempt to conceal their perpetual hatred for the Chinese people whom they always scared might outcompete them in all human endeavours especially in economic development, science and technology.

In Taiwan the fight now is not about DPP's fake democracy and human rights. The fight is about getting rid of the traitors of the Chinese people. The fight is about reuniting Taiwan with the motherland China. The fight is about saving and preserving the survival of the Chinese people, the Chinese nation, the Chinese country and culture and the Chinese Han race. The fight is about preserving the dignity, honour and self-respect of the Chinese people and nation. In short the fight is about preserving and saving the great Chinese nation and Chinese Civilization from being destroyed by the diabolical forces of the Japanese and the Western powers headed by the Evil Empire, the United States. The fight is about reuniting Taiwan with the motherland China 

The United States together with Japan and the DPP running dog of Japan are using "Democracy and Human Rights" terms deceptively to hookwink the uninformed Chinese Taiwanese to submit to their control and absolute domination. Their ultimate objective is to contain and destroy the great Chinese rejuvenation and rapid development. They just would not want to see China develop into a rich and powerful country second to none.

When the United States find it hard to compete with the Chinese people in a fair level playing field in all aspects of human endeavour in the economy, in scientific, technology and high tec fields they resort to endless demonizing of China and the Chinese people. They make no attempt to hide their callous attempt to divide the Chinese people to serve their geopolitical agenda.Take note it is not the Chinese communist that they hate and opposed. It is the solid unity of the Chinese people and a rich and strong and powerful China that they cannot accept because of their guilty conscience of all the past atrocities they had previously committed against China and the Chinese people.

It is the usual United States modus operandi that when everything fails they will resort to killings, assassinations, kidnappings, incite public choas and demonstrations, foment orange revolutions and wars for regime change to bring down the victimized countries.  At present the U.S. and Japan have picked on China for destruction and the traitors in DPP are their fifth column, henchmen and agents in Taiwan who will spearhead their  fight against China from within the Chinese society.

The Taiwanese Chinese should wake up and rise up to the occasion to face the danger squarely and cooperate with their mainland Chinese compatriots to destroy the DPP traitors who have connived and colluded with US and Japan to destroy China and the Chinese civilization.

How China and Taiwan unite, whether by peaceful means or through military means is none of the business of foreign powers to interfere. Technically the Chinese civil war which has occurred since the late 1920s has not ended. The United States has never stopped interferring in the Chinese civil war since the late 1920s by supporting the then pro-American Chiang Kai-shek clique of the KMT  - Kuomintang. Had the US not stationed stationed its 7th Fleet in the Taiwan Straits in the 1950s to prevent the PLA from taking Taiwan to consummate the unification of Taiwan with motherland China, then there will definitely have no Taiwan issue today. Thus it is the evil empire's interference in the Chinese civil war that prevents China from taking back its Taiwan island province to complete the entire unification of China.

Even to this day USA is still instigating the Taiwanese Chinese especially the traitors in the DPP to go for independence and is fomenting all kinds of hostilities against China to prevent the rightful unification of Taiwan with motherland China.

The United States had fought a civil war from 1860 to 1865 in  which Washington made used of military force to prevent the Southern Confederate States from seceding from the union. Now the evil United States under the guise of protecting 'democracy and human rights' is trying to prevent the rightful unification of Taiwan with its mainland motherland China. This is utter hypocrisy. The main reason is that US is just making use of the Chinese traitors as a chip to threaten China's rapid rise and development and to secure and maintain its geopolitical strategy of  world hegemony.

No matter what, the Chinese on both sides  of the Taiwan Straits must  and will be united again as a great Chinese nation. When and how Taiwan will be liberated depends on China and not on the fooleries and farcical actions of the US and the treacherous traitors of the DPP turncoats. In the meantime let all Chinese traitors who commit treason and betray the Chinese people and Chinese nation be warned that all Chinese traitors will eventually face the wrath of the Chinese people and will either be hanged or face the firing squad. That despical faceless ugly spinster Tsai Ing-wen whom all respectable men shun  and  who bows to her American master and colludes with the anti-Chinese  Anglo-Saxons to undermine the Chinese nation and country will have to be tortured and make to apologize for her crimes before facing the firing squad.

This message should be forwarded to as many Chinese people as possible both in Taiwan, China and all around the world wherever there are Chinese people. All proud and respectable Chinese people have a duty and responsibility to play a part in the preservation and safeguarding of the survival of the Han Chinese and the Chinese nation and civilization. So please do spread the message as the survival of the Chinese people is at stake amid the renewed Western, US and Japanese aggressions and provocative actions in Taiwan, in the East and South China Sea.

Southernglory1.

Saturday,13th November, 2021.

Covid19 - Concept of vaccination

 The concept of vaccination is to train the body to detect a virus/bacteria etc and to produce antibodies to counter and destroy it. It is in a way like learning how to ride a bicycle. Once a person has learnt how to ride a bicycle, this skill is in him forever. If the person does not ride a bicycle for many years, he may be a bit rusty but could still pick it up quite easily.

A body that has been trained, by vaccination, to detect and attack a virus or bacteria, will remember this skill. If the body is regularly working on this, like the situation now when the virus is every where, the body's ability to produce antibodies against the virus can only grow by the day, not forgetting and losing this ability. so easily. It can get better and better doing it. That is how vaccination works. But if there is no virus for a very long time, like many years, the body may be less effective when face with the virus again, but would still be able to recall and react, albeit the reaction may be slower. In such cases, ie after many years, a booster may be necessary.

If one has to get booster shot after a few months, even a year, it is not what one should be expecting from an effective vaccine. This would be more like a drug addict getting his high and needing a quick fix every now and then to get another high. The recommendation for booster shots every now and then, like every year, falls into the same category as a drug addict needing his drug. This is not the same as vaccination.

The push to have booster shots every now and then, every year, is looking like peddling drugs to drug addicts.  Something is very wrong in this message, looking more like a commercial scam to get people hook on the drug, to keep jabbing and jabbing and pay and pay and making the drug manufacturers very rich. This is one thing, but to get jab and jab would have serious consequences from overdose to high dependency and serious side effects. And like all drugs, the effect or high will decrease and the drug addict would need more or higher dosage to get the same effect, leading to high dependency....and withdrawal symptoms.

What is going on? What is the truth? Do you trust snake oil salesmen or drug peddlers?

The myth and disinformation about low antibody counts.

Low antibody counts have been flogged as the reason for third or fourth or more booster shots. How silly and mischievous can things become? When a person gets infected, or injected with a vaccine, the body would react by producing antibodies to counter the virus. The antibody level would be very high in the early days until the virus is purged or destroyed. When that happens, the body would do a stand down a few days later if no more virus is found. Subsequently the body would reduce its production of antibodies and the level will drop, must drop to a minimal level. Otherwise the body would be producing unnecessary antibodies and wasting its effort and nutrients that are needed for other body functions. 

Low or no antibody count is the normal state for the body to function. But once a body has experienced producing such antibodies, this becomes a new immune skill retained in the body memory and it would start to produce antibodies when the virus enters the body again. 

The hysteria about low antibody counts to justify booster jabs is flawed and misinformation. Low antibody count is a natural state of the body until it faces a virus attack. All vaccines would raise the antibody counts initially simply because of traces of virus be it inactivated virus or spike protein. But the body would destroy this by raising the antibody level. Once this is done, the level of antibody would naturally go down.

Do not be misled by snake oil salesmen using this myth and be coerced to go for more booster jabs. It would be an endless jabbing regime. Booster jabs may be needed after years, not months unless the pseudo vaccine becomes ineffective, or when a new variant appears that the body is unable to fight back. This would likely happen to those using mRNA as it is designed for only one particular variant or a few very similar variants. And it is also unofficially recognised and reported that its life span is only a few months. This is not the case for traditionally made vaccines using inactivated virus.

The human body's natural immunity system would react to any new variant in its own way unless this natural immune system is destroyed by the mRNA vaccine as reported by another group of scientists.

Beware of fake news and misinformation and disinformation.

Covid19 - Raving about experimental vaccines

 When the Americans rushed out their mRNA vaccines, a totally new way to produce vaccines and still under trials, they claimed that the efficacy to prevent infection was 95%, or was it 96%? And the suckers were drooling that this magic silver bullet would save them from the pandemic...without happy to think, no thinking needed because the American gods said so. And they bought lock, stock and barrel, threw their money at this experimental drugs that many experts and scientists were shouting caution because of the many unknowns and potential risks in the future. 

Even when the drug pushers insisted on secrecy in the sales agreement, no responsibility for side effects of deaths from use, no rights to claim compensation, no rights to sue the manufacturers, no one think that these were dangerous warning signs.

After a year of use worldwide by the suckers and believers of white gods, and the words of white gods as unquestionable, blasphemy to cast doubts on the words and claims of these white gods, the facts are staring down the face of the suckers and believers.  The vaccines did not work as they claimed. The infections continue to spread, people continue to die. But did anyone raise any alarm, any question on the original claims of efficacy? Not the believers. In many countries, it would be a slap in the face if doubts were raised on these experimental vaccines. Many deaths and serious side effects were brushed away as due to underlying medical conditions of the victims in spite of many young and healthy people also dying in their 20s and 30s that otherwise would still be alive.

Not only that they would not raise any alarm or pause in the use of these vaccines, they even made it compulsory despite the protests from the doubters. It is like since they have been suckered and jabbed with the vaccines, it is good to have others to be jabbed as well and share the benefits or ill side effects. We are all in and no escape.

Now Pfizer is coming out with oral vaccines and claiming 89% effective, just short of 90%. This time they learnt their lessons and would not dare to claim 95% or more than 90%. But 89% of what? 89% to prevent serious illness or deaths. Mind you, not prevention of infection. They know that this vaccine could not prevent vaccines, proven, so better not claim such fictitious efficacy. This is Pfizer's claims reported in the www.statnews.com.

'An experimental antiviral pill developed by Pfizer reduced the risk of death and hospitalization by 89% in patients who were newly diagnosed with Covid-19 in a large study, the company said Friday.

The development of oral medicines that can be used to treat Covid early on could blunt the impact of the pandemic.'

 How large is the study group? How did they defined death and hospitalisation? Would people that took the vaccines, get hospitalised or died be excluded because they have underlying medical conditions?

Nahid Bhadelia, the founding director of the Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases Policy & Research at Boston University, called oral antiviral pills “incredibly important” because existing treatments such as monoclonal antibodies must be given intravenously or as shots.

And many suckers are already queuing up for this experimental vaccine again like adolescents queuing up for the latest pop fad. Would they still be made to sign secrecy clauses and no claims against side effects and deaths? Would they ask a few simple commonsensical questions about the claims of Pfizer? Or it is all over again, cheated once not shy, and happy to be cheated a second time and throwing their money at questionable experimental vaccines?

Hooray another new white hope, or another white dope?

Singapore is the 4th most expensive city in the world. Time for celebration.

 

The above chart is copied from a post in TRE by Tang Li.

Singapore has acquired another great reputation by being the fourth most expensive city in the world, out ranking New York, Osaka etc etc. Only Zurich, Paris and Hong Kong outranked Singapore by a mere one point.  The 3 were ranked equally as the world's most expensive, and Singapore could even claim to be the world's second most expensive in a way.

Singaporeans now have something to brag about, living in the worlds second or fourth most expensive city in the world and enjoying every bit of it. Why not, the signs are all there to tell the world Singaporeans are managing it very well. A piece of paper to qualify to buy a small car is now $50,000, excluding the price of car and taxes. This piece of paper could buy two small cars in many countries. And to buy a big car, this piece of paper is costing $80,000. 

This is small change for Singaporeans as Singaporeans are really rich. Many are millionaires and earning millions annually. So all the increases in taxes, in GST, in transportation fares, rents, utilities bills, petrol etc etc would be accepted as necessary to keep and maintain Singapore as one of the best and most expensive city in the world.

Well done Singapore. Well done Singaporeans.  There is no poor people in Singapore. Some Singaporeans would be shocked in disbelief to hear that there are poor people in Singapore. More than 89% or is it 90% of Singaporeans are home owners...at least for 99 years before their million dollar flats becomes $0 in value. And for the lucky few that owned freehold land properties, some own several pieces, there is no estate duty to pay when they expire, but the properties would never expire and the value can only go up and up, just like HDB prices. Oops, oops. Who are the big owners of such exclusive properties? The lucky descendants of the rich and powerful.