Please POFMA Bloomberg!!! It talks shit about Singapore

[JurongEast]

How Singapore Flipped From Virus Hero to Cautionary Tale

In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Singapore was a global standard bearer for taming the deadly illness. Now it’s home to Southeast Asia’s largest recorded outbreak and is racing to regain control.

 

[JurongEast]

One reason behind this reversal can likely be traced back to six days in February, when the earliest sign of what would become an explosion in cases among migrant laborers first appeared.

 

[JurongEast]

The Bangladeshi was Singapore’s patient number 42, and the first apparent case among low-wage foreign workers in the city’s dormitories. Infections among migrant laborers now account for more than 70% of the country’s 9,125 infections, and Singapore is seeing record daily increases in its tally, with new cases exceeding 1,000 on Monday and Tuesday.

 

[JurongEast]

Singapore was slow to revise a response plan honed during its experience in 2003 with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, or SARS. That strategy saw the nation focus on hunting down people who had come into contact with an infected person, a classic public health approach known as contact tracing.

 

[JurongEast]

After the emergence of Patient 42, Singapore didn’t appear to immediately undertake large-scale community testing within the foreign labor community, despite their living conditions being favorable to the spread of infectious disease and calls from worker advocacy groups. The country tested and quarantined 19 people who were in contact with the worker and asked companies that operate the often cramped dormitories to undertake more cleaning and take residents’ temperatures.

 

[JurongEast]

Singapore’s Ministry of Health didn’t respond to questions on how many foreign laborers were tested in the weeks after Patient 42, but officials’ comments indicate that large-scale community testing didn’t start until much later.

 

[JurongEast]

Singapore’s early public rhetoric indicated a reluctance to test widely, with a focus on those with symptoms to avoid wasting tests. On March 10, Mak said that “community testing for all people, irrespective of whether they have symptoms or not, will generate a lot of activity” but have a low yield.

 

[JurongEast]

This is not the first time that an infectious disease has hit Singapore’s foreign workers, who earn as little as $18 a day.

 

[JurongEast]

“It’s hard to explain why the authorities did not up the ante in terms of infection controls at the dorms -- perhaps there was a policy blind spot with the focus being on Singaporeans,”

 

[JurongEast]

Singapore is now entering the third week of a partial lockdown it calls a circuit breaker. Social gatherings are banned and only essential businesses are allowed to operate. Schools are now shut, as well. The implementation has been unusually bumpy for a country used to being lauded as being efficiently run and whose citizens are known to be law-abiding.

 

[JurongEast]

“The many changing instructions -- sometimes a few times a day -- doesn’t give confidence that we’re indeed gold standard,” said Inderjit Singh, a former Member of Parliament with the ruling People’s Action Party.

 

[JurongEast]

Hong Kong Edge Over Singapore Shows Early Social Distance Works

 

[glockman]

The cold hard truth. PAP needs to repent.

 

[tanwahtiu]

Over look only... move on... it only FW.... not the red IC citizens...

 

[tanwahtiu]

Epork members, go eat yr pool of stale food, fit for pigs...

The cold hard truth. PAP needs to repent.

 

[laksaboy]

POFMA only works on your local tinpot island.

It has no power against real journalists elsewhere.

If you don't want your citizens to read such seditious articles, better consult the Chicoms on how to set up a POFMA Firewall.

By the way, congratulations on attaining press freedom rank #158... in the black tier.

 

[tyudm]

 

[spotter542]

Lanjiao LEEder only knows how to sue his own shitizen
When it comes to Murica or Taiwan , secretly hoping Papa was still alive to handle this mess
As the old saying goes , 父债子还

 

[blackmondy]

Any dictatorship regime will fuck up when it comes to a pandemic like this, no exception.

 

[spotter542]