Serious Lawrence Wrong tells u guys to get used to it

[pvtpublic]

The vaccines will cull even more.

nonsense. it makes no sense whatsoever from any conspiracy angle.

it is the wealthier classes that crave the vaccine. it's the poorer classes who don't get access to it.

if you can't see through the fog, then I can't help you. it's like believing plastics is a consumer problem rather than the problem for the ones who make it and profit from it.

 

[glockman]

God bless the Sinkies.... this clown is going to be the next Prime Minister? He probably doesn't know what he is having for lunch later.​

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https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...ossibility-that-covid-19-becomes-endemic-here​

Singapore planning for possibility that Covid-19 becomes endemic here: Lawrence Wong​

Finance Minister Lawrence Wong was asked during a press conference how Singaporeans might go about their daily lives in the coming years.ST PHOTO: GAVIN FOO

Linette Lai
Political Correspondent

• PUBLISHED
  MAY 28, 2021, 4:29 PM SGT

SINGAPORE - Singapore has started planning for the possibility that Covid-19 may become endemic here, said Finance Minister Lawrence Wong on Friday (May 28).
This could mean Singaporeans will need to get booster jabs from time to time, he noted. In the coming months, better treatments could also be developed for the disease, making it less of something to fear, he added at a virtual press conference.

But even then, the country may have to take basic precautions - for example, with regard to ventilation systems and buildings - in order to minimise the risk of infection.

"When will it happen? I really can't say," Mr Wong said, in response to a reporter's question on when the virus will be considered endemic here.

"But we are indeed planning for a plausible scenario down the road where scientists around the world... come to the conclusion that it's not going to be possible to eradicate this virus - it's never going to go away, and we then have to learn to live with it."

The minister was speaking at a press conference to announce extra help for individuals and businesses impacted by the tightened measures on social interaction. The $800 million package of support measures will be debated at the next Parliament sitting in July.

At the virtual event, Mr Wong was asked how Singaporeans might go about their daily lives in the coming years, given that it seems difficult to picture the current restrictions on mask wearing and social gatherings lasting for a long time.

"I can't even predict what's going to happen next month," he replied. "So I don't know that it's so easy to tell you what's going to happen years down the road because the situation is really very uncertain."

He did, however, note that the current strict measures are working to help Singapore curb the spread of the virus.
"Therefore, we do not think there is a need for further tightening in our overall posture," Mr Wong said, adding that a fuller update will be given at the next press conference by the multi-ministerial task force tackling Covid-19 on Monday.

They need to simultaneously plan to cancel CECA, not just planning for the new normal.

 

[pvtpublic]

They need to simultaneously plan to cancel CECA, not just planning for the new normal.

to save face, they will want to keep it but in a much diluted form.

 

[glockman]

to save face, they will want to keep it but in a much diluted form.

Yes possibly.

 

[sweetiepie]

Yet more of my profound wisdom......

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KNN my uncle think the most profound statement is still what my uncle said way way back when it first started for the world to stop spinning for just 1 fucking month but nobody wanted to listen and ended like this which was predicted by my uncle KNN I.e do 1 extreme shutdown to terminate the virus else the payback will be many many folds KNN the world just cannot stop earning money for just 1 fucking month who to blame ? KNN predictable extreme disease leequire extreme critical thinking and actions KNN

 

[sweetiepie]

KNN my uncle think the most profound statement is still what my uncle said way way back when it first started for the world to stop spinning for just 1 fucking month but nobody wanted to listen and ended like this which was predicted by my uncle KNN I.e do 1 extreme shutdown to terminate the virus else the payback will be many many folds KNN the world just cannot stop earning money for just 1 fucking month who to blame ? KNN predictable extreme disease leequire extreme critical thinking and actions KNN

People thinking this cannot that cannot essential services financial must go on etc KNN people are people so why should it be KNN

 

[millim6868]

Get himself paid so much n a dumb ass also, other countries leader also not paid so much

 

[batman1]

Get himself paid so much n a dumb ass also, other countries leader also not paid so much

HE talkcock and hallucinating and still get highest paid in the world .

 

[Leongsam]

corporations giving up floor space in buildings is real. they are already preparing for a future with reduced numbers in office.

change is never easy and the resistance has began obviously. but resistance is futile. you can opiniate all you want, it won't change the fact.

teamwork will be built in other manners. humans are the most adaptable species on the planet.

the recent lockdowns and work from homes have not destroyed the economy. the money making machine is still running fine. many office jobs can be done remotely as has been proven. I'm sure if a study is done, it will find that productivity/ efficiency has gone up during this period.

Bookmarked to see how well your post ages.

Here in Auckland which at the moment has no Covid issues everything is back to the old way of doing things.

 

[tanwahtiu]

I think you're wrong in this case... it's the control freak PAP after all. There will be no opening up. It will freak out the kiasi Sinkies, most of whom are part of the PAP's core support base.

The lockdowns, restrictions and inconveniences a.k.a. 'safe management practices' will continue, perhaps escalate... it's only that this time they're telling you to accept it as the 'new normal'... 'deal with it'.

In other words, the vaccines don't work, there will be no herd immunity, the pro-vaccine propaganda courtesy of Phua Chu Kang and Gov dot sg and Temasek Foundation etc is a bunch of baloney. At the very least, if you're a true believer of vaccines, expect Pfizer or another pharma company to pimp (annual?) booster shots in future.

There will be no end until someone finally grows a pair of testicles and say where the Covid-19 virus really came from.

https://twitter.com/LawrenceSellin

It came from yr butt hole...

 

[zeebjii]

nonsense. it makes no sense whatsoever from any conspiracy angle.

it is the wealthier classes that crave the vaccine. it's the poorer classes who don't get access to it.

if you can't see through the fog, then I can't help you. it's like believing plastics is a consumer problem rather than the problem for the ones who make it and profit from it.

Wealthier only means they have some money, and means nothing else.

 

[Balls2U]

It'll mysteriously disappear just as it mysteriously appeared. But the question is when.

 

[capamerica]

It's not a "possibility" it's a given. There is no way that any country can keep the virus out indefinitely much less forever. The sooner we face reality the sooner everyone can get on with their lives.

Covid is a minor infection in most and many don't even know they are infected. To continuously lock down and mask a whole population is just lunacy. It achieves absolutely nothing in the long term.

Lawrence Wong is more than A WHOLE YEAR late with this proclamation anyway. In my infinite wisdom I already stated that the virus is endemic way back in April 2020.

https://www.sammyboy.com/threads/harbin-poised-to-be-the-next-wuhan.284208/#post-3100199

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Wrong. Again. Lets see that is 0 for 275 tries, all failed

All wrong, stupid opinions that have no basis in fact

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)01018-7/fulltext

COVID-19 vaccine impact in Israel and a way out of the pandemic​

• Eyal Leshem
• Annelies Wilder-Smith

Published:May 05, 2021DOI:https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)01018-7


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In December, 2020, Israel initiated a national campaign to vaccinate its population with Pfizer–BioNTech's mRNA COVID-19 vaccine BNT162b2 (tozinameran). Israel's Ministry of Health recommended a two-dose schedule with a 21-day interval between doses. Israel delivered more than 10 million doses within 4 months; by April 19, 2021, 54% of the entire population of 9·1 million people, and 88% of people aged 50 years or older, had received two doses.
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Factors contributing to Israel's rapid roll-out include its small geographical and population sizes; advanced information technology that allowed prioritisation, allocation, and documentation of vaccines for eligible individuals; effective cooperation between government and community-based health funds, which were charged with providing vaccines to those they insured; and experience in rapid large-scale emergency responses.
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Vaccines were rolled out around the time of Israel's third and largest wave of SARS-CoV-2 infections, with a peak 7-day moving average of 8328 new infections per day, which resulted in a 2-month national lockdown. Thus, Israel's setting provided a robust platform on which to examine vaccine effectiveness and the impact of high vaccine coverage in real-life conditions at a national level. From March, 2021, onwards, Israel reported a rapid decline in COVID-19 cases across all age groups, despite the easing of lockdown restrictions and reopening of education and commerce. By April 19, 2021, the 7-day moving average of new cases dropped to 149 per day, indicating effective control of the pandemic within the country's borders.
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The marked reduction in new cases prompted the Israeli Government to ease nationwide restrictions, including the discontinuation of face covering use in open spaces.
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In The Lancet, Eric Haas and colleagues report on a nationwide observational study of the impact and vaccine effectiveness of BNT162b2 in Israel.
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Israel's Ministry of Health used aggregated data from the national SARS-CoV-2 surveillance and vaccination programme dataset to compare infection and disease incidence between vaccinated and unvaccinated people. Overall, of 232 268 SARS-CoV-2 infections during the study period (Jan 24 to April 3, 2021), 154 648 (66·6%) occurred in people aged 16 years or older and were included in the analyses (of which 20·4% were in the Arab sector, 15·7% in the ultra-Orthodox sector, and 63·9% in the general Jewish [non-ultra-Orthodox] sector). Adjusted estimates of vaccine effectiveness at 7 days or longer after the second dose were 95·3% (95% CI 94·9–95·7) against SARS-CoV-2 infection, 91·5% (90·7–92·2) against asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, 97·0% (96·7–97·2) against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, 97·2% (96·8–97·5) against COVID-19-related hospitalisation, 97·5% (97·1–97·8) against severe or critical COVID-19-related hospitalisation, and 96·7% (96·0–97·3) against COVID-19-related death. Vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, COVID-19-related hospitalisation, and COVID-19-related death exceeded 96% across all age groups, including older adults (aged ≥75 years and ≥85 years). These results closely mirror the efficacy estimates of the BNT162b2 vaccine reported in the phase 3 trial.
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The strengths of the study include its nationwide design, mandatory routine reporting of new infections and of vaccination status to the national dataset, large sample size, exclusive use of BNT162b2, and occurrence of a highly efficient vaccine roll-out during peak transmission of SARS-CoV-2, which resulted in high vaccination coverage of most of the adult population. However, several limitations should be considered when interpreting the results. First, social desirability bias affecting symptom questionnaire respondents and presymptomatic infections at the time of questioning could have contributed to an overestimation of vaccine effectiveness against asymptomatic infection. Additionally, patients with COVID-19 who reported symptoms were defined as asymptomatic if they did not report fever or respiratory symptoms. This unorthodox case definition might have resulted in a substantial overestimation of vaccine effectiveness against asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection.
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Second, during early 2021, the B.1.1.7 variant of SARS-CoV-2 was estimated to account for 95% of cases in Israel, and the results thus indicate that the vaccine was effective against this variant of concern. However, the study did not report on effectiveness against other variants of concern, such as B.1.351 and P.1. Concerns regarding breakthrough infections were recently raised as a case-cohort study from Israel reported a disproportionally high infection rate with the B.1.351 variant in fully vaccinated compared with unvaccinated individuals.
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Nevertheless, the incidence of B.1.351 infection in Israel to date remains low. Rapid mass vaccination coupled with non-pharmaceutical interventions
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might have successfully controlled its spread.
Haas and colleagues' findings from Israel suggest that high vaccine coverage rates could offer a way out of the pandemic.
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Regrettably, rapid population level coverage cannot be easily replicated in many other countries. The global use of the BNT162b2 vaccine is limited by supply issues, high costs, and ultra-cold chain storage requirements. Global COVID-19 vaccine roll-out has been sluggish, and vaccine distribution is inequitable despite the achievements of COVAX, mainly due to the lack of adequate manufacturing scalability.
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Rapid expansion of deployment of other effective vaccines with more achievable cold chain storage requirements remains an urgent global priority.
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Facing such challenges, alternative approaches must be considered to allow rapid protection of at-risk populations against severe COVID-19. One such approach is deferring the second dose to accelerate and maximise coverage of the first dose in the population. Indeed, the situation in Scotland looks promising: the first dose of BNT162b2 was associated with a vaccine effectiveness of 91% (85–94) for COVID-19-related hospitalisation at 28–34 days post-vaccination.
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Israel's robust dataset could allow further assessment and corroboration of first-dose short-term effectiveness and lead other countries to considering deferring the second vaccine dose.
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Post-introduction vaccine effectiveness studies such as those from Israel
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will gain increasing importance in augmenting the current evidence, which has so far been based only on data from phase 3 efficacy trials. WHO has published a best practice guidance document on how to conduct vaccine effectiveness assessments using observational study designs.
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Israel's experience provides impetus for countries to proactively pursue high vaccine coverage to protect the population;
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however, rollout would need to follow the WHO prioritisation roadmap to maximise the public health impact, in light of vaccine supply constraints. More post-introduction vaccine effectiveness studies will be required. Timely reporting of vaccine effectiveness against variants of concern, the duration of protection across age groups and geographical settings, and the effectiveness of alternative dosing regimens is crucial to provide data-driven immunisation policies.
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EL reports personal fees from Sanofi Pasteur for participation in a global advisory board of influenza vaccination, outside the area of work commented on here. AW-S serves as a consultant to WHO's Immunization and Vaccination Department. The authors alone are responsible for the views expressed in this Comment, and they do not necessarily represent the decisions or policies of WHO.

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[capamerica]

Yet more of my profound wisdom......

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since you are the most stupid person on the internet, this made me laugh

your level of stupidity is second to none.

 

[capamerica]

Of course it's going to revert to back to normal. It is already happening in many countries so why would Singapore be any different.

This so called "new normal" was never going to happen. Humans are genetically programmed to live lives as social animals. This "work from home" shit is already a thing of the past in places where society has already removed restrictions and opened up. There is no way teamwork can be forged and deals done on zoom. Things just don't work that way in the human species.

As long as vaccinations occur we can do away with spastic stupid people like you, yes

but its more fun to watch you fail over and over

 

[capamerica]

nbcnews.com

Opinion | Why working from home never works​

By Richard Laermer

5-6 minutes

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While there is clearly a market for remote workers, virtual teams, even virtual assistants, a company that offers telecommuting as a white-collar perk is just making more trouble and work for itself.

When it goes well, nobody notices or cares; when it goes badly, telecommuting days are treated as vacation days. Over the past two decades, working remotely has gone from a perk accessible to some to a policy utilized by 43% of employed American employees in 2016. Millennials in particular appeared to embrace the flexibility, and across the internet trend pieces began to proliferate speculating that half of all office workers could be remote by 2020 and explaining why remote work is the “future of innovation.”
Not so fast.

As the owner of a New York-based public relations firm, I began offering telecommuting as a perk a little over a year ago when I told everyone they could “phone it in” every Friday. I had hoped home commuting would increase productivity and accommodate a more diverse work force — arguments often used to justify the policy. But instead, my company’s experiment ended up convincing me that telecommuting hurt my employees (and my business) more than it helped.

For starters, I found that too many employees treated their work-from-home day as paid time off. They rolled their eyes when managers tried to reach them in the middle of the day. Response times slowed considerably.

Multitasking at work usually means something different.Henk Badenhorst / Getty Images stock

Then there was the critical moment when I asked someone to come by our midtown office on one of her working from home days. I needed her to meet with a client who was coming by but she said she was unavailable because she was going to be in the Hamptons.
I’m not a dictator or a micromanager, but I do need to know if my employees are planning to be on Long Island during the weekday. Without trust, employer-employee relationships are doomed.

But accountability wasn’t the only issue remote work dredged up. The empty office also demotivated the people working there — including me. One of the many reasons we stopped the one-day-at-home was a startling comment made by our chief financial officer on an empty Friday: “Why do we have this beautiful office when nobody’s here to enjoy it?” The change was palpable, as our usually humming work space suddenly felt drained of the collaborative energy that had previously been a hallmark of it.

This side effect was cited as also one of the reasons why tech giant IBM told 2,000 US workers they would no longer be able to work from home. "IBM's strategy is about adopting the best work method for the work being done," an IBM spokesperson told Bloomberg. The company is hoping that the change, while controversial, will foster a renewed sense of creativity across multi-disciplinary teams. (IBM will still allow flexible work arrangements for appointments and child care.)

This home office is an urban legend.Onest Mistic / Getty Images

Even the oft-cited idea that millennials crave employee flexibility may in some ways be overblown. In our experience, young staffers are eager for the one-on-one mentorship opportunities and structure provided by employee proximity. They’re learning a new business fast and the advantage of being on campus trumps distance learning.

Then there is the loneliness factor. According to a Reuters survey, “62 percent of people said they found [telecommuting] socially isolating and half thought that the daily lack of face-to-face contact could harm their chances of a promotion.” That’s true. Companies reward the folks who save the day over people who just do their job.

Ultimately, of course, I can’t force my employees to be creative or hardworking any more than I can keep track of everything they are doing at every minute of the work day. Some people are always going to look for opportunities to take advantage of workplace loopholes.

So though it may work for some, I don’t believe that telecommuting will ever be the right path for a firm like mine. And I suspect that other companies may come to similar conclusions. The future of work will certainly be flexible, but it's not time to eulogize the brick-and-mortar office space yet.

Richard Laermer is the founder and CEO of RLM Public Relations, a former journalist, and the author of five bestselling books including "2011: Trendspotting, Punk Marketing and Full Frontal PR."

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Wrong. Again. Call it 0 for 276 tries, all failed.

You have never heard of how the service industry works

Another stupid opinion has just died

 

[capamerica]

Bookmarked to see how well your post ages.

Here in Auckland which at the moment has no Covid issues everything is back to the old way of doing things.

Oh I have 276 of your posts bookmarked to remind the public how stupid and wrong you were about everything

I mean at least get 1 thing correct.

Just one but its beyond your ability

 

[Scrooball (clone)]

Joke of the day: How do you know when Sam Leong is saying something laughable?

Ans: when his lips move or in this case, whenever he types

 

[tanwahtiu]

It's not a "possibility" it's a given. There is no way that any country can keep the virus out indefinitely much less forever. The sooner we face reality the sooner everyone can get on with their lives.

Covid is a minor infection in most and many don't even know they are infected. To continuously lock down and mask a whole population is just lunacy. It achieves absolutely nothing in the long term.

Lawrence Wong is more than A WHOLE YEAR late with this proclamation anyway. In my infinite wisdom I already stated that the virus is endemic way back in April 2020.

https://www.sammyboy.com/threads/harbin-poised-to-be-the-next-wuhan.284208/#post-3100199

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He is dangerous, Like Jesus he must die...

 

[pvtpublic]

Wealthier only means they have some money, and means nothing else.

the collective that is "the wealthier" owns, controls and manages the smooth running of the world.

who has more to lose if the world goes kaput? the peasant farmers in their m&d huts or "the wealthier" with their boats, planes, limos and mansions?

the ones embracing the end-of-the world via whatever conspiracy they pick, often are the ones with the least to lose.