From March 2020 to Jun 30, 2022
MALAYSIA - 2,315
THAILAND - 2,241
SOUTH KOREA - 7,651
MYANMAR - 9
PHILIPPINES - 843
VIETNAM - 839
SINGAPORE - 7,644
INDONESIA - 1,948
Source: Johns Hopkins University
In some schools or organisations, the passing mark for a test is 90. In some, the passing mark could be 50. In the former, getting 89 is bad, failed. In the latter, getting 51 is good, passed. Put the 89 marks student beside the 51 marks student, who is the better student? Not sure, quite confusing.
China has a zero Covid policy. So a few cases is bad. And the western media and some silly media would play it up, China is having 50 cases and now 100 cases, horrifying. China is in deep trouble, fighting a war to contain the rising numbers. Silly WHO also came out to dismiss China's zero Covid policy as unsustainable, meaning China should let the Covid cases grow and spread, pointless to maintain a zero Covid policy, sure to fail. China should just join the West, the leaders of the world, and relax, let it go. Luckily or unluckily, China has reported that there is no new cases in Shanghai and Beijing now. If there is a will to control the pandemic, it can be done, not unsustainable, no need to raise the hands and say, give up.
The USA has hundreds of millions of cases and no one seems a bit concern. No problem at all. Just live with it. What is Singapore's policy? Probably like the USA, the number is not important, not a standard to be observed. What 6,000 to 11,000? Is this important, serious, dangerous? It all depends. If the standard is 0, this is very serious. If the standard is no standard, infinity, this is small matter. Even 100,000 is small matter when the standard is infinity.
Is there any problem or contradiction? Or it is just a number game and play whatever way you like as long as you are happy with it? Moving targets? Deception? Whatever way you look at it, science is science and not art. Science has specific numbers and right or wrong. In art, there is no fixed numbers or right or wrong, just relative.
If tomorrow the govt chooses to follow a zero policy, we will be in Dorscon Red. Today when there is no guideline or standard to observe or measure what is good or bad, we are neither here nor there, 11,000 also not orange or yellow. No need to look at any standard anymore.
This is like in the past a degree is necessary for some jobs. Now no need degree as there is no standard requirement that says a degree is needed. Happy, happy ok liao. Why be concerned about numbers and be burdened by numbers?
Can anyone remember the rhetoric when Covid first started, the fear, the hysteria? It is all in the mind, a mind game. If you say Covid is nothing to be afraid of, then there is no need to worry about anything, no need to force people to jab and jab, and booster after booster. No need to be misled by a vaccine that is not a vaccine, more like a placebo.
PS. The way this pandemic is being reported has a lot to do with the political agenda of the reporter, like a report on the Ukraine war, depending on which side is the butter being spread.