It is ridiculous to keep blaming PAP for an event organised by MHA, as MHA should be the authority that knows best how to get Singaporeans more healthy. I may have some disagreements on certain policies and how they manage the country, but blindly blaming them for all the ills is unreasonable. One thing, we do know, is that there is a 100% chance we all will die someday after being born. When that will happen is anyone's guess. I know a widower who had four sons all married, his wife passed away some years ago. Inexplicably, the 2nd sone passed away at age 38, and soon after the 3rd son. A few years later the eldedt too died leaving the youngest still alive. Many years later, I heard the youngest too passed away, leaving the old man still alive and he was in his eighties. I understand they all died from heart and liver disease, and most likely they all had this hereditary defect passed to them from their mother. Itis quite common to hear of people dying long before their prime, some in their early thirties even. It is hardly surprising that this 50+ year old guy died from over-stressing himself in a Challenge. What MHA may be faulted perhaps was not ensuring the health of participants before allowing them to take part.
More worrisome for us should be the number of times we hear news of an NS man who died while performing exercises. Mindef never release the figures, but I suspect every year a few of them died. Not known to many perhaps, is that many pilots died or were injured from air crashes, since RSAF began operations. Google it and you may come across the reports which are not made public. What we don't know about these and other deaths that occurred is more a concern and where we should start the blame game. In other words, we are shooting at what little we see, but the bigger targets are hidden from view.
