Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) Updates
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Previously when we were having zero community cases but high trending imported cases, I have expressed concern of imported cases spreading to the community. Personally I think we have tightened the arrival measures a bit too late. However, better late than never and we should see community cases going down in the next week or so. In my view, in the early stage of the pandemic, strict measure such as CB was warranted because we don’t know a lot about the virus. At that time, fatality rate was also higher simply because the healthcare systems were overwhelmed. It seems that worldwide now we are coping with the virus better, with the help of vaccination, mask wearing, social distancing and attention to personal hygiene. A lot of cases are also asymptomatic and or without serious symptoms that requires long hospital/ICU stay. As a result, except a few countries where their healthcare system still unable to cope, we are seeing a big drop of fatality rate in the rest of the world.
Against the above backdrop, coupled with the detrimental long term effect that the various restrictions are severely impacting our economy, maybe it is time for us to accept that we can’t eradicate the virus completely and learn how to live with it. If the effects of contracting covid19 are asymptomatic, or mild symptoms like sore throat, slight fever, cold etc that don’t require hospitalisation, then we should regard it just like how we regard flu and other minor ailments that we have been experiencing day to day anyway. I am fearful that we are starting to ‘loosing the forest for the tree’. EU including UK as well as US are opening up now. China, Australia and New Zealand have the resources to keep their border close for foreseeable future. How about Singapore? Changi Airport as a hub is dying, SIA is dying, our infrastructure and home building are being delayed as well as many other economic activities. Conversely, Dubai, another air hub and our competitor, is thriving with its airline flying to many places. Long covid, at least with regard to long covid heart, has been dispelled as myth. We just need to know whether covid has other long term negative effects on recovered patients. I hope the answer is no and we really need to open up our economy sooner rather than later. -
Today (May 23)
Total Community Cases = 22
Unlinked Community Cases = 3
On a downward trend. :rahrah:
Stay safe everyone!
3-Day Moving Average of Total Community Cases and Unlinked Community Cases
Three-day moving average of the total number of community cases from May 16 to 21 is between 26 and 30.3. The three-day moving average for unlinked community cases during the same period is between six and 12.
Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/3-day-moving-average-number-covid-19-cases-stable-past-week-situation-not-bad-some-fear -
Covid-19: Don’t confuse debate on merits of FTAs such as Ceca with S’pore’s obligations to let in foreigners
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But these FTAs do not prevent Singapore from restricting the entry of foreigners in the name of public health.
In short, whatever criticisms one may have of the Government's rules on travel from any part of the world into Singapore, those rules have nothing to do with Singapore's obligations under Ceca or, for that matter, any other FTA.
The economic merits of any FTA may certainly be open to debate, as may the issue of whether the rules on foreigners entering Singapore sufficiently protect public health.
But the two issues should not be confused.
Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/voices/covid-19-dont-confuse-debate-merits-ftas-such-ceca-spores-obligations-let-foreigners -
.zeit\" post_id=\"2024842\" time=\"1621564972\" user_id=\"171271:
Green lane is implemented by MOT but what’s the purpose of Green Lane? To promote human traffic to S’pore to spur economic activities which would have been part of MTI’s KPI.
It's usually the other way round. Foreign investments come in first. Build, expand or takeover existing plant. Hire and train. That's why they found they were stuck with not many suitable Singaporean IT professionals after Bytedance Tiktok, Tencent, Zoom, Ant, Alibaba have poured in investments here.lee_yl\" post_id=\"2024804\" time=\"1621516688\" user_id=\"17023:
There are direct links between GDP / economic growth and closure of borders to inflow of workers / professionals. No worker how to operate factories, no IT professionals how to entice more investments from global MNCs etc.
Because of his KPI, I hope he is not the one who objected against the pre-emptive closure of borders to South Asians! :lightrod:
But the issue today is not with these FTs that SG still needs. The issue today has to do with the border measures which is under the jurisdiction of MOT/CAG like you correctly pointed out the other day. 一码归一码，so we can't say MOM (construction workers, Malaysians, etc), MHA (for the Nepalese gurkhas), PMO GovTech, MCI iMDA, and everyone else has to be held accountable for MOT's response to border controls. Then again, you're also not wrong to say they are all interlinked because they'd called it MMTF!! :grphug:
This forum letter by a recent traveller dated 15 April was not addressed at all. :slapshead:
https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/forum/forum-stricter-covid-19-measures-needed-for-inbound-passengers-at-airport
And btw, I was commending based on our FDI inflows in the above, not our outflows. As for the outflow, you have to check with huang hou niangniang. :censored: :rotflmao: We're the largest foreign investor in India in the last 2 years. CCS' KPI should be: EUSFTA, UKSFTA, CPTPP (Jul 2018) and RCEP (Nov 2020), the last two of which do not include India as a member. The 2005 CECA was not his legacy, but GY's.
Tech.Passes is his thing, but just 500 are up for grabs. Last reported only 22 applications have come in. But the net cast is quite wide. Suspect they're targeting at TW, HK and mainland talents as I notice OYK's been quite aggressive on forming ATBs and green lanes with HK, TW.
OK, enuff said, I've digressed...
Anyway, I think OYK as the transport minister then did make a boo boo. But as minister, he cannot be expected to handle all the daily operational details, that’s where the MOT civil servants are supposed to help him.
So in terms of accountability, somebody (MOT Perm Sec, CEO CAG etc.) has to take the rap lor.
Afterall, due to sloppy handling of travellers from high-risk countries, there has been significant economic damage to the country. All these could have been avoided. -
I wonder, last year got one HDB block 2 households sharing the same staircase tested Covid positive.
This year another block 4 households sharing same stack/same staircase also tested positive.
Did they never find out the reason/source of the transmission from last year till now?? -
Does anyone know where to find \"open letter by singapore doctors\"?
Only can find
\"Doctors Around the World Issue Dire WARNING\"
https://www.bitchute.com/video/H9GyqoPMvfRa/?fbclid=IwAR3f3AScoX6twtqt4NviPxG4Y6bGg8Oy9XNgyBdWXH3GYyaCHQQhrUJ15G4
and
Dr Mike Yeadon (Former Pfizer Vice President talks about vax for secondary students at 31 minute mark)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS953NNws3E -
sevenseals\" post_id=\"2025055\" time=\"1621831832\" user_id=\"124401:
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_VuuRVt-_ogJ:https://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/threads/statement-by-12-singaporeans-doctors-on-vaccination.6520802/+&cd=18&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=sg
Does anyone know where to find \"open letter by singapore doctors\"?
Only can find
\"Doctors Around the World Issue Dire WARNING\"
https://www.bitchute.com/video/H9GyqoPMvfRa/?fbclid=IwAR3f3AScoX6twtqt4NviPxG4Y6bGg8Oy9XNgyBdWXH3GYyaCHQQhrUJ15G4
and
Dr Mike Yeadon (Former Pfizer Vice President talks about vax for secondary students at 31 minute mark)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS953NNws3E -
Imp75\" post_id=\"2024988\" time=\"1621731774\" user_id=\"2358:
https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/government-economy/25-passengers-arrive-in-singapore-from-india-every-day-180-fly-back-on
I am curious to know if B1617.2 is in the community other than the changi airport clusters and if yes, how did they get them? Not sure if this is reported in the press. -
Is there a website where one can check on the current clusters and their number of infected?
The news said the JEM/Westgate is the 2nd largest cluster after Changi Airport ??? -
starlight1968sg\" post_id=\"2025101\" time=\"1621894246\" user_id=\"14025:
Sometimes in the newspapers, but I don't know if there is a website that tracks this closely daily.
Is there a website where one can check on the current clusters and their number of infected?
The news said the JEM/Westgate is the 2nd largest cluster after Changi Airport ???
I think the reason the Jem/Westgate cluster has grown so big is that some of the other smaller clusters may have been linked to it, and there were 6 new cases reported yesterday. Not suprising considering that so many people go to Jurong East and cross paths. I can't actually figure out the clusters as the way things are reported isreally not easy to decipher. I don't know if MOH intentionally does this, or it's just poor reporting. Some poor journalist will have to untangle it all and make a graphic, I guess.
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