DBS a great employer

 

Can anyone tell the difference? Is this in India or Singapore? The common denominators, DBS owned. DBS employees. And a very comfortable recreation area for staff.

What a great employer! What a great place to work.

The Indian govt must be very grateful and thankful to the Singapore govt for providing so many good jobs for Indians in India and in Singapore.

Jobless Singaporeans see oredy 'lau nuar'  ie salivating in Hokien. for the Jobless Singaporeans, lagi shiong.

Picture copied from TRE.

More than 100 doctors issued an open letter urging the government to pay attention to the safety of mRNA vaccines

 Translated from KL Chinese press:

More than 100 doctors issued an open letter urging the government to pay attention to the safety of mRNA vaccines

KUALA LUMPUR: More than 100 doctors have issued an open letter urging the government to pay attention to the safety of messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccines.

They also said that new data, which began to emerge months after the second dose of the mRNA vaccine, showed that the vaccine was "ineffective" against the South African Omicron variant, for which there is still no clear scientific explanation.

In a scientific open letter dated January 10 to the Prime Minister, Health Minister and National Security Council of Malaysia, 114 doctors pointed out that the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has only just begun to study the long-term results of vaccine-induced myocarditis, so the current situation is The safety of such vaccines is still full of unknowns.

The doctors pointed out in an open letter that new data showed that the mRNA vaccine was "ineffective" for Omicron.

"What's more worrying is that if the current cohort of vaccinated young and healthy people contract Covid-19, the associated infection may contribute to a higher risk of developing myocarditis."

The open letter was written by histopathology and statistics consultant Mani Mara and supported by 113 doctors.

In general, doctors say, results of drug safety can only be seen after at least 20 years of widespread use, because new drugs are often only tested for a short period of time, and mid- and long-term adverse effects may remain unknown;

Small sample size, so there may be some rare but fatal adverse reactions not found.

Doctors cite studies revealing that young men who receive the mRNA vaccine have a higher risk of developing myocarditis than contracting Covid-19.

They said that the mRNA-type covid vaccine is still a "novel" drug, and there was no overview of its safety and effectiveness before. Instead, it was recently piloted by researchers from Oxford University in the United Kingdom and published in the "Natural Medicine" journal. The research analysis clearly pointed out that, There is a causal relationship between these vaccines and myocarditis.

According to research, people suffer from injuries after vaccination; the Moderna vaccine has a higher mRNA concentration, so there is a higher incidence of myocarditis; and the second and third injections afterward will increase the risk of myocarditis.

"The study also showed that young men who received the mRNA vaccine had a higher risk of developing myocarditis than contracting Covid-19."

*Questioning the relevant Malaysian authorities Citing Research Data Base*

The doctors pointed out that a number of medical issues have arisen in Malaysia's long-term COVID-19 vaccine policy, including the identity, qualifications and conflicts of interest of the relevant bodies of Malaysia's Vaccine Advisory Committee.

They said the Vaccine Adverse Reactions Committee of Malaysia also had issues of identity, qualifications and conflicts of interest.

They questioned the data base of the relevant Malaysian agencies and recommended the use of the covid vaccine.

Doctors say a directive from the National Security Council that people need to be vaccinated to continue their normal lives could lead to medical problems.

They also questioned whether the "informed consent" form for people to administer the covid vaccine has been updated and highlighted, and the "black box" warning about the risk of drug "raw material".

"Hopefully these issues raised will be taken into consideration and raised to reassure the people."

https://www.chinapress.com.my/20220111

Anonymous

It is not possible to stop the Omicron

Just as we were all supposed to meet the Delta sooner or later, it is even more certain that all of us will meet the Omicron within the next few months.

And no, hospitalisation, ICU and deaths are not decoupled from the Omicron cases.

Of course, they will be coupled, but with a delay, and with a lower proportion bcos much of the world is either vaccinated or had prior infections.

There are already reports of Omicron infection deaths in the different parts od the world.

The fall in Delta after their recent peaks would lead to a fall in hospitalisation, ICU and deaths in the first instance, even if the supposedly milder Omicron is just starting up.



And hospitals in parts of USA are filling up and struggling.

True, both vaccinated and recovered patients can be infected, though usually mild.

Omicron waves Europe and USA are expected to peak between now till end February.

Omicron waves are starting to surge in Asia - already the Philippines are seeing record daily cases, well past their Delta peaks.

So in Sg, we should expect to see a big surge sometime between now, possibly with super spreaders sparked by CNY festivities and gatherings.

So we should be prepared for a high speed roller coaster wave sometime in February/March before the situation calms in April/May/June.

Hang in there and stay calm.

Anonymous

mRNA vaccines are so effective....

 For the year 2021, China reported 2 deaths from the coronavirus. The USA reported 434,795 deaths for the same period. And China also reported that 1.2b Chinese have been vaccinated, ie more than 90% of its population fully vaccinated.  The USA is still struggling to go pass the 65% level.

The numbers clearly confirmed that the Chinese vaccines are very ineffective and that the mRNA vaccines are super effective.  If China desires to have more deaths, it must stop using non mRNA vaccines and revert to jab its citizens with mRNA vaccines. Then it would be able to compete with the USA to see who could achieve more deaths from the virus.

Is the above conclusion logical? mRNA vaccines resulted 434,795 deaths must be more effective than China's non mRNA vaccines, causing a mere 2 deaths?

The fact that the Americans continue to push for more Americans to be jabbed by mRNA vaccines, to go for 3rd and 4th booster shots means that the Americans have full confidence in their mRNA vaccines. 96% efficacy, good for children also.  The Americans cannot be so deluded to continue to use an ineffective vaccine right? This reminds everyone of the bygone days when they infected the indigenous people, young and old, no one was spared, from the diseases of Europe. Now it is looking like a repeat of this exercise, but on themselves and their own young and old, no one would be spared. Leave no one behind.

So, the conclusion must be logical and right. The mRNA vaccines are effective, and thousands of times more effective than non mRNA vaccines. This is logically speaking, based on empirical data. The more mRNA vaccines are used, the higher will be the death numbers. 

What do you think? Oh, oh, maybe the Chinese are lying, there must be a few hundred thousand of Chinese deaths. They are just not telling the truth. The stupidity has no cure type would believe so. How could China have only 2 deaths when they are not using the most effective mRNA vaccines, 96% efficacy, world best vaccines?

How dare anyone claims that mRNA vaccines are ineffective? If they are, it is only temporary. Just jab, follows by a few more booster shots, and a few more booster jabs,  and it would be effective again.

Nancy Pelosi must be very happy with the results. What a beautiful sight. 1.35m daily infected cases!!!!! Wow, wow.  God's Army working wonderfully.

Then they banned travel in and out of India when Indian had 400,000 daily cases. Would the Americans be banning travel in and out of the USA?  No, cannot. American Exceptionalism. Instead they are banning Singapore, their very good friend and close ally. Without Singapore they would not be able to control the Straits of Malacca with their warships in Changi.

PS.  When would silly Singapore ban the Americans from entering Singapore? Why only allowed the Americans to ban Singapore or specifically to put Singapore as a high risk country and we dare not put the USA as a higher risk country with 1.35m cases a day?

Top 20 Predictions in 2022 Part 2 – 2 2022 Prediction (2) – A Turning Point?

The US CPI will be out on 12 Jan 8.30am local time. Market forecast is at 7.1%. Actual figure could be higher given the demand and supply factors (and shocks in 2021) in the goods as well as the tight supply in the labour markets.

Another possible factor for the much elevated price level (at least to some extent) could be the concept of money neutrality (given the current massive US$8.8 trillions in the US FED balance sheet, some from “rollover” from the 2009 to 2014 US FED QE1,2,3 (Quantitative Easing) & Operation Twist and the remaining about US$5 trillions since July 2019, when they reversed the QT (quantitative tightening) embarked on in Oct 2017 by then US FED chairwoman Janet Yellen starting at US$10 billion per month and incrementally raised by US$10 billion in each succeeding quarter capped at US$50 billion, but mainly from the QE Unlimited by FED Chairman Jerome Powell since Mar 2020.

An additional factor could be what is called ”Voodoo Economics” (a term coined by Bush Snr during the 1980 US Presidential Election campaign about Ronald Reagan’s then proposed supply-side tax cut policy often advocated based on the dynamic scoring principle). Empirically the benefits especially economic growth arising from tax cut is fairly limited and proven short lived but the downside is possibly heightened price level in the longer run. Due to the 2017 tax cuts policy, the full-blown price level impact might be felt significantly from 2022 onwards.

Turning away from the US, what are the potential ramifications on our (beloved) Little Red Dot and the possible measures that can be undertaken to mitigate the downsides and navigate through this potentially turbulent period? First of all, our monetary policy differs significantly from the rest in that our central bank (MAS) manages via our exchange rate. Our main monetary policy tool namely the Singapore Dollar Nominal Effective Exchange Rate Band (SGD NEER Band) was implemented in 1981 by our then DPM Goh Keng Swee, given the extremely open nature of our economy, its miniscule size relative to the world, utter lack of any natural resources and its strategic geographical location. Singapore has limited capacity and thus needs to import most of what it needs for its domestic consumption, value-add production and exports. The mandate of a central bank often centres around price stability, sustainable economic growth and full employment. For that, in the past 4 decades, our exchange rate based monetary policy has achieved far beyond what we could imagine and we should be extremely thankful and grateful for the superb foundation and system that our old guards such as MM Lee, DPM GKS, DPM Toh Chin Chye, FM Hon Sui Sen, Foreign Minister Rajaratnam, Law Minister E W Barker, Social Affairs Minister Othman Wok, National Development Minister Lim Kim San, Labour Minister Ong Pang Boon, etc etc had done and laid down for the future generations (including ours).

To fully understand the implications of our unique exchange rate-based monetary policy, we need to understand a basic concept in international finance known as the trilemma or impossible trinity .

To be continued in Part 2 – 3

Leo 81

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