[COVID-19 Virus] The Sinkies are fucked Thread.

[zhihau]

My only question is, if the 11 cases were discovered, why wasn’t it reflected in the figures for public consumption via those Gov.sg channels through apps?

 

[tanwahtiu]

Cat and mousey game... huat ah.....

11 residents at Westlite Woodlands dormitory test positive for COVID-19
View of Westlite Woodlands dormitory. (Screengrab: Google Maps)

By Chew Hui Min
22 Apr 2021 12:13AM (Updated: 22 Apr 2021 12:57AM)

SINGAPORE: Eleven workers have tested positive for COVID-19 at Westlite Woodlands dormitory on Wednesday (Apr 21) - the largest number of infections in the migrant worker dormitories in months.

A letter from Westlite Woodlands to its clients, seen by CNA, said that 11 of the residents at the dormitory were confirmed to have tested positive for COVID-19 as of Wednesday morning.

"These 11 COVID-19 positive residents are Recovered Workers, and are in addition to the one resident who had been vaccinated and subsequently reported positive on 19th April 2021 (Monday) from Rostered Routine Testing," said the letter signed by the dormitory's manager.

READ: Dormitory resident who completed full COVID-19 vaccination regimen among 14 new cases in Singapore

The results are from 568 tests carried out on Tuesday for residents from levels two to seven of Block A of the dormitory, located at 2 Woodlands Sector 2.

The infected workers are being sent to the hospital or to a community care facility, said the letter.

The letter added that as a "precautionary measure", all the residents from the block, which number more than 1,100, will be sent to a government quarantine facility (GQF) for 14 days.

"These residents will be recalled from work today and required to stay in their units at all times until they are decanted from the dormitory to GQF," the letter dated Apr 21 said.

"Employers need to arrange for meals to be delivered to their employees during this period of time until they are decanted to GQF."

Swab tests will also be conducted on all the remaining residents in Block B of the dormitory.

WORKERS TO BE CHECKED FOR POSSIBLE RE-INFECTION

The 11 dormitory cases did not appear in the Ministry of Health's case count on Wednesday, which said that there was one new community COVID-19 infection and 14 imported cases.

One of the infected workers is the roommate of the worker who tested positive on Apr 19, said the Ministry of Manpower in a press release on Wednesday night.

As a close contact of the infected worker, he had already been quarantined.
The workers were immediately isolated and taken to the National Centre for Infectious Diseases to investigate for possible re-infection, added MOM.

READ: 1 community case among 15 new COVID-19 infections in Singapore

The first case from the Westlite Woodlands dormitory was reported and identified as Case 62181 on Apr 19.

The 35-year-old Bangladeshi is a construction supervisor who works at Sembcorp Marine Admiralty Yard and is employed by Prosper Environmental & Engineering.
He had received his second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine a week earlier but was likely to have been infected before he could build up immunity, the Ministry of Health had said earlier.

EARLIER CLUSTER AT WESTLITE WOODLANDS

Westlite Woodlands dormitory had first reported a cluster of COVID-19 cases in April last year.

That was when the coronavirus cases in the dormitories began to rise sharply, leading to lockdowns at many dormitories.

MOH said on Oct 11 last year that the Westlite Woodlands cluster was closed after no new cases were found there for 28 days.

There have been more than 54,000 COVID-19 cases detected in migrant worker dormitories since the start of the pandemic.

Although the numbers peaked in the middle of last year, cases in the dormitories have fallen dramatically and before Wednesday, there were only seven cases reported since Jan 1 this year.

As of Wednesday, Singapore has reported a total of 60,880 COVID-19 cases and 30 fatalities from the disease.

 

[millim6868]

CB PSPigs well done ,jeep letting in more neh,phil,cina,indo ,etc ,esp neh n phil n indo now after effect coming, well done,then they will blame sinkies for spreading covid,

 

[batman1]

The foreign workers dormitories are breeding grounds of covid-19.

 

[kaninabuchaojibye]

My only question is, if the 11 cases were discovered, why wasn’t it reflected in the figures for public consumption via those Gov.sg channels through apps?

the dorms are no longer under total lockdown
they are outside mingling with community
to count as dorm cases is misleading

 

[zhihau]

the dorms are no longer under total lockdown
they are outside mingling with community
to count as dorm cases is misleading

oh yah hor... Altogether now!!! Dai chee dua tiao liao ah!!!

 

[kaninabuchaojibye]

oh yah hor... Altogether now!!! Dai chee dua tiao liao ah!!!

gxgx singkies
second wave lai liao...
dorm cases are real community cases as dorms are not under total seal and lockdown

 

[Splendicker]

Are they vaccinated?

 

[zhihau]

dorm cases are real community cases as dorms are not under total seal and lockdown

by and large, over 80% are relatively asymptomatic or with minor symptoms; about under 20% a bit more rabak... if we look at our current CFR, as long as we don’t overwhelm the hospitals, we’re good.

 

[laksaboy]

It'll be quite hilarious when those vaccinated people get infected. It's happening in other countries now.

 

[laksaboy]

Are they vaccinated?

I think all Banglas were vaccinated... they have no choice, just like healthcare workers, airline workers and NS slaves etc.

They were one of the first batches before the PAP govt started 'inviting' old farts to get vaccinated.

 

[zhihau]

It'll be quite hilarious when those vaccinated people get infected. It's happening in other countries now.

Let’s clear the air about vaccination once and for all.

Using the flu vaccines for example: every year, new vaccines are produced to counter the prevalent strains running amok. Do you still get flu after a flu jab? Yes, if you contract the virus not covered by the flu vaccine.

So, doesn’t mean you are vaccinated and you’ll not get infected. A vaccinated person can still be infected by the same strain of virus he/she is vaccinated against, but the body’s immune response will run into action faster than usual because of the presence of those memory T-cells.

Can a vaccinated person be a carrier? Of course a vaccinated person can still be a carrier of the virus. So, in short, why vaccinate? So your symptoms can be hopefully milder when you’re infected by the virus and the hospital doesn’t get overwhelmed.

 

[bobby]

gxgx singkies
second wave lai liao...
dorm cases are real community cases as dorms are not under total seal and lockdown

Exactly...these FTs are not confined to their dorms and they are free to take the bus or MRT to Mustafa or Lucky Plaza.

All travel bubbles will now be questioned by the other countries.

 

[laksaboy]

Let’s clear the air about vaccination once and for all.

Using the flu vaccines for example: every year, new vaccines are produced to counter the prevalent strains running amok. Do you still get flu after a flu jab? Yes, if you contract the virus not covered by the flu vaccine.

So, doesn’t mean you are vaccinated and you’ll not get infected. A vaccinated person can still be infected by the same strain of virus he/she is vaccinated against, but the body’s immune response will run into action faster than usual because of the presence of those memory T-cells.

Can a vaccinated person be a carrier? Of course a vaccinated person can still be a carrier of the virus. So, in short, why vaccinate? So your symptoms can be hopefully milder when you’re infected by the virus and the hospital doesn’t get overwhelmed.

So stop the propaganda about 'get vaccinated and protect yourself and your loved ones'. And stop the bullshit about having 'herd immunity' once 70% or 80% of the population is vaccinated.

 

[Leongsam]

Vaccines are not going to stop Covid just as flu vaccines have never eliminated the flu.

The virus is part and parcel of life and needs to be treated as such.

The sooner everyone accepts the fact that people are going to die of Covid on a regular basis the sooner countries and economies are going to be able to get back on their feet.

Nobody shuts a country down because of the flu so there is no reason why it needs to be done with Covid. Once the vaccines a proven safe and are administered annually just like the flu vaccine there is absolutely no reason why the Covid IFR will be any worse than that of influenza.

Considering the fact that the IFR for Covid was estimated to be in the 0.3% to 0.6% prior to vaccines being available and that vaccines are now between 60% to 95% effective there is every reason to believe that the overall IFR for Covid, once regular vaccination programs are in place globally, should fall below 0.1% which puts it in the same ball park as influenza.

There is honestly nothing to worry about. The virus isn't the problem. It's the over-the-top reactions by governments that are causing most of issues that many countries are facing.

The biggest mistake is in believing that masks actually help bring infections rate down despite all the data showing that masking the population actually makes matters worse.

 

[zhihau]

Vaccines are not going to stop Covid just as flu vaccines have never eliminated the flu.

Boss, big pharma should be paying all those who are taking their vaccines a token sum. They are all subjects of this very large scale drug trial you know?

 

[zeddy]

This is a big slap on the face of the PAP. It is bad enough if one Keling is infected in a dorm, but if 11 Kelings/Banglas are now found to be infected and they exposed themselves to the community while carrying out their jobs, then Lawrence must be frothing in his mouth now.

 

[Leongsam]

This is a big slap on the face of the PAP. It is bad enough if one Keling is infected in a dorm, but if 11 Kelings/Banglas are now found to be infected and they exposed themselves to the community while carrying out their jobs, then Lawrence must be frothing in his mouth now.

Singapore should learn from Texas. Just open everything up and treat Covid as the flu. Some people will die but most will be fine ie no different from the flu.

 

[laksaboy]

This is a big slap on the face of the PAP. It is bad enough if one Keling is infected in a dorm, but if 11 Kelings/Banglas are now found to be infected and they exposed themselves to the community while carrying out their jobs, then Lawrence must be frothing in his mouth now.

No worries, the pappies are super thick-skinned, a slap hardly affects them.
Also, the 160th media will do its spin jobs to put the situation in a positive light.

 

[zeddy]

the dorms are no longer under total lockdown
they are outside mingling with community
to count as dorm cases is misleading

As what I know, their employees must provide transportation for these dorm workers to go to their work sites and send them back to their dorms after work. But most of the drivers are also their fellow countrymen, so they would usually do a quick pit stop somewhere to buy things to bring back to their dorms after work. MOM has already stated strictly that they must be sent back straight to their dorms and they must not mingle outside after working hours. Of course many of these workers now brazenly ignoring the guidelines set by the MOM and that's why you still see many of them in Little India and other places having a quick meet ups with their friends.