Under CECA, Singapore has to allow workers from India to enter and work in Singapore. This explains why the PAP government is not stopping arrivals from India.
The government gives strawmen arguments like the workers from India are needed for the construction and manufacturing sectors, no country can permanently close their borders, and that other countries are also facing the Indian variant of the virus.
India has Singapore by its balls.
Workers from India will continue to come in. Although they are required to test negative before embarking on their aeroplanes, the reality is that there are imported cases arriving from India every day. Something is wrong: either the results of the tests were not reliable, the test results were faked, or people (immigration, airline staff etc) are bribed to let the positive cases board the aeroplanes.
The PAP government knows this but either knows that it is pointless to tighten the procedures because the workers will have to be admitted in any way, or the PAP government has chosen not to do anything.
This means that Singapore's covid-19 situation is tied to India's covid-19 situation.
If India lockdown (like the first time) and the virus is under control, imported cases go down. If India becomes lax (like the recent mass gathering (in the millions) of religious festivals) and cases go up, imported cases also go up in Singapore. And it becomes worse if there is a new strain of the virus.
And Singapore's covid-19 situation is also linked to India's politics. The right thing for India to do would be to do a second lockdown. But Prime Minister Modhi is reluctant to do this because of the coming elections.
So Singapore is screwed by India's politicians and bad pandemic management. If India goes through two, three, four, five, six, seven waves of infection, Singapore likewise will have the same number of waves of infections.
And the Indians want to flee to Singapore to escape the waves in Singapore as if Singapore is their second home.
Singapore is at the mercy of India's pandemic mismanagement and the whims of India's politicians. Singapore is as good as being a vassal state of India.
The government gives strawmen arguments like the workers from India are needed for the construction and manufacturing sectors, no country can permanently close their borders, and that other countries are also facing the Indian variant of the virus.
India has Singapore by its balls.
Workers from India will continue to come in. Although they are required to test negative before embarking on their aeroplanes, the reality is that there are imported cases arriving from India every day. Something is wrong: either the results of the tests were not reliable, the test results were faked, or people (immigration, airline staff etc) are bribed to let the positive cases board the aeroplanes.
The PAP government knows this but either knows that it is pointless to tighten the procedures because the workers will have to be admitted in any way, or the PAP government has chosen not to do anything.
This means that Singapore's covid-19 situation is tied to India's covid-19 situation.
If India lockdown (like the first time) and the virus is under control, imported cases go down. If India becomes lax (like the recent mass gathering (in the millions) of religious festivals) and cases go up, imported cases also go up in Singapore. And it becomes worse if there is a new strain of the virus.
And Singapore's covid-19 situation is also linked to India's politics. The right thing for India to do would be to do a second lockdown. But Prime Minister Modhi is reluctant to do this because of the coming elections.
So Singapore is screwed by India's politicians and bad pandemic management. If India goes through two, three, four, five, six, seven waves of infection, Singapore likewise will have the same number of waves of infections.
And the Indians want to flee to Singapore to escape the waves in Singapore as if Singapore is their second home.
Singapore is at the mercy of India's pandemic mismanagement and the whims of India's politicians. Singapore is as good as being a vassal state of India.
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