that’s because in long periods of lockdowns during the pandamic plus safeentry and tracetogether restrictions sinkie economy slows drastically down with many stuck in their homes and hotels acting as quarantine confinements, unable to work and makan outside. why need so many jiuhukias or jiuhubus when hawker centers, food courts, and malls are shut down? the makan and logistics industries which are huge in sg are mainly run with jiuhu workers, plus the bulk of factory jobs. you obviously haven’t been back in the job market thus don’t know how dependent sg economy is on jiuhufolks. for every pinoy, burmese, cumbodian or viet low level service worker there are at least 69 jiuhu workers in sg.