Covid19 - Conflict of interest to make a lot of money

With so many regulations being introduced to force people to be vaccinated and the need to do self testing using Antigen Rapid Test, the manufacturers of vaccines and ART sets are laughing all the way to the bank, with compliments from the govt agencies.

ART is now the de facto test to have the right to enter commercial and public buildings and places. Think of the millions and billions of people having to perform ART daily and repeatedly over months and years, and think of the profits. In Malaysia, an ART kit costs RM$6.90 or about S$2. In Singapore it costs between S$8 to $13. Can you imagine that? What kind of profit margin is that? Is it profiteering? Would CASE think it should look into this? PS. Ong Ye Kung said they are looking into it.

As long as the pandemic or endemic continues, and with many countries eagerly and desperately wanting to open up when the virus is floating freely in the air, the excuse for ART is hard to disagree. Even if one disagree, the range of discriminative measures sanctioned by the govt agencies make avoiding ART or not doing it impossible. This is looking like a blackmail at national and international scale, compulsory toll tax for entry. Is this reasonable? People that have no money would be curtailed in their movement and entry to working places and public buildings and places. Is this ok? Has it got anything to do with freedom of 'navigation' ?

Then there is this questionable call for booster jabs that could go on and on for years at the mercy of vaccine manufacturers telling the users that their vaccines would expire, no longer effective, just take their words for it, and go for the booster jabs and pay for it with the govt agencies behind them, in some countries becoming a legal requirement, enforceable by the long arms of the law.

What is suspicious and dangerous is the lack of interest in many countries to even want to establish if there is a need for a booster shot or many booster shots. Isn't it commonsensical to even the laymen, not to talk about the scientists and professionals in this field, to want to check and test the effectiveness of the vaccines, how long would it remain effective, how long would be its lifespan or expiry date? The irresponsible thing to note is that many are using the low antibody counts as a justification for more booster jabs. This is medically and scientifically misleading, misinformation.

What is fundamental and basic in the scientific and medical profession must be to conduct proper tests on the efficacy and effectiveness of the various vaccines and establish how long each would remain effective in preventing infection or in preventing serious illnesses or deaths. OK, never mind that it is public knowledge that the vaccines are hardly effective in preventing infection. At least the authorities or govts must check on the how long the vaccines would be effective in preventing serious illness or deaths from infection before deciding on the booster shots.

If the vaccines are effective only for 3 months or 6 months, then booster jabs must be administered every 3 or 6 months accordingly. If the vaccines are effective for more than a year, several years, then there is no reason or urgency to insist or legislate that booster jabs must be administered every year to make the manufacturers laughing to the banks.  Any conflict of interest? The last thing to note, the frequency of booster shots must not be determined by the manufacturers as they are profit making businesses and would definitely call for more shots at shorter frequency, the more the merrier as it means big profits for them. 

They have been caught lying with their pants down that the vaccines' efficacy was 96% in preventing infections, and proven very wrong when the vaccines were used. Why was there no complaints against this false claim, misrepresentation? Oh, the buyers cum users already signed agreements with the sellers and compromised their rights to seek redress for false claims. But what about the govt agencies like the American CDC or WHO to take up the case for the poor victims and those cheated by the manufacturers? Or is this like the war crimes committed by the Americans and their allies in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, etc etc? No one or agency should dare to complain or else? And the liars and cheats just walk away scot free without punishment, no need to answer anything, not even have to apologise or admission of fault or fraud?

Independent agencies that have no links with the vaccine manufacturers must be appointed to do the testing. The unthinking suckers that would foolishly believe in everything the manufacturers said without questioning must not be involved in such decision making. And beware of the manufacturers bribing govt agencies to make regulations in their favour to make more profits with unwanted and undesirable policies. Anyone or agencies that have links to the manufacturers, that would benefit financially in one way or another must not be allowed to spout their nonsense in their own favour.

The manufacturers of vaccines and test equipment must not be allowed to call the shot to make unfair and unconscionable and immoral profits from the use of their vaccines or test kits.

What do you think?

PS. Vaccine dosage is carefully managed to prevent over dosed. Therefore it is very important not to have booster shot too close from the last jab to prevent having too much vaccine or mRNA/inactivated virus in the body at one time. It was once reported that the window period is 6 months. Just heard that the window period has been reduced to 28 days. Is this change done due to science or due to someone gasak buta?

The USA: A Pariah Country: PART ONE : Violent Birth of USA : A Brief Insight.

   The United States is a  savage, illicit and illegitimate pariah country. The birth of U.S. was violent. It was created out of an intense struggle and war with its forebears the evil  Anglo-Saxon British Empire  - The UK. The colonialist and imperialist British Empire government was extremely harsh, cruel and exploitative of even their own settlers from England and Europe. Thus you can imagine how  many times worst  they must have been illtreating the native Americans with enslavements, killings and genocide.  So to get out of the exploitative situation many of the British settlers revolted against their own government and fought for independence. That was how the evil empire of the US violently came out to this world.

The U.S. was created out of violence and like its forbears UK it was going to follow the same ethos of UK by ruling with force and violence. As with regard to illtreament of the natives it even surpassed the UK with endless atrocities, cruelties and genocide of the natives so as to build an empire out of native lands. Like the UK it justified its occupation of native lands base on the religious militant doctrine of "The Doctrine of Christian Discovery."  It adopted a genocidal policy as an excuse for progress. It is merely white men's greed, power crazy and a false sense of racial superiority and religious divinity that they rationalized the irrationality that they did nothing wrong in their atrocities , murder, genocide and conquest by force against other people and other countries. To this present day white men of Anglo-Saxon America still practise this policy of killings and genocide and conquest of other countries and this insidious practice seem to be established in its permanency and will never stop as we witness what horrible turmoils and genocidal wars they have been creating in the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America. 

In addition to the Doctrine of American Manifest Destiny there is a new element of justification for conquering any land in which US covet and claim  is essential for the defense and security of the United States. That was how in 1818, Andrew Jackson wrested Florida from Spain who had in earlier years taken it from the Seminole native American Indians. This aggressive and bellicose stance is being practised up to today when every nook and corner around the earth is deemed to be important and essential for the defense and security of America no matter how far it is from America. That is how the US occupied Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean for its military base. That is how US occupied all the Pacific Ocean islands inclusive of Hawaii and Guam for the American Empire. That is how and why the US is now trying to gain control of the East China Sea and the South China Sea claiming it is essential for the defense and security of the United States even though they are more than 10,000miles away from the U.S. As it is they are trying to create hostilities against China with constant navel and aerial provocations very close to the coast of China. In the meantime China is very patient and tolerant and is giving enough rope for the Americans to hang themselves in ultimate eventuality.

Southernglory1

Monday, 15th November, 2021

Why built so many universities?

 In the 70s there were only two universities and the population was about 2m. Today the population of citizens is about 3.5m plus another 2m pus foreigners, and there are 6 universities. Thereotically there should be enough university places for all Singaporeans. Is this the case?

What is the main purpose of building so many universities? The western countries built universities for commercial reasons, as a business to generate income, to create employment for their citizens, to subsidise the cost of education of their citizens. Also to educate their people to get good jobs. Is this the case here?

Some of the strange things that we have heard, don't waste time and money getting a piece of paper that cannot be eaten. What does this mean? Getting a degree is not necessary, cannot get good jobs. Get a skill better than a university degree. Then why built so many universities?

To create jobs for Singaporeans as academics? To create more university places to attract foreign paying students to generate revenue, another source of income for the state? How many per cent of the academic staff are Singaporeans? Are the universities built to provide employment for foreigners, good jobs for foreigners while qualified Singaporeans are not preferred and many rejected?

What about foreign students? Are they paying students or we use public money to pay them to study here and then to steal the lunch of Singaporeans? If this is the case, then it is not a source of revenue but an expenditure, doing charity at the expense of Singaporeans, educating foreigners to take the jobs from Singaporeans? Which is which?

Or the purpose is to built world class universities, to achieve high world class rankings like winning the World Cup or a few medals?  And to achieve this, bring in more foreigners as academics, more foreign students so that the ranking can be high to earn the right to boast around while many of our academics could not be employed and many of our own students cannot find places in the 6 universities built and paid for by taxpayers' money?

Is there any contradiction here? Or is the heart in the wrong place, wrong priorities, better to provide jobs for foreigners, better to educate foreigners using public money, taxpayers's money and our citizens, academics and students left wanting while the foreigners are so happy being employed and paid, the foreign students so happy given free education even with subsistence allowances? 

Is it the responsibility of a democratically elected govt to provide good jobs and university places to foreigners instead of its citizens...using taxpayers' money?

What do you think?

Richard Wolff - China - US’s First Real Competitor in a Century

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q5VsEew0ZM

 

One hour of a very powerful and illuminating presentation by Prof Richard Wolff explaining the interdependence of the USA and China and how China is presenting itself as the first real competitor to the Americans. The presentation is very captivating, telling the story of China that most Americans did not known, did not want to known, would not be told, kept continuously ignorant by their politicians and media, and thinking and behaving like the empty heads hillbillies living in the small little towns and big cities of the USA.

The poor Americans are so pathetic, living in a lie they created themselves and refusing to face the truth, stubbornly refusing to see that the world has changed and the USA is now an irrelevant and outdated political power and system.

Enjoy the video.

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'