Why open our borders when hospital beds "could fill up in a week if a COVID-19 cluster grows uncontrollably" and WFH is the default arrangement?

[mojito]

If all you citizens are vaxxed, Singapore can spread more diplomatic good will by offering our hospital beds to foreigners!

 

[laksaboy]

If all you citizens are vaxxed, Singapore can spread more diplomatic good will by offering our hospital beds to foreigners!

Sounds good, unless the vaxxed ones also require hospital beds.

Anyway, no point losing sleep over this. Booster shots are coming, like it or not. I expect the Empress Dowager will bark about them on Facebook eventually. Right now they have their KPIs set for August and September.

 

[Cottonmouth]

His mother's CB must be dragged out to be nailed to the ceiling.

 

[millim6868]

Fxxx the PApigs ,let c how theyvipen up n create more spread of covid n let c who rhey blame, they sure blame singaporeans id they caught one violate the rules n blame the Singaporeans for taking MRT ,buses ,go mall , spread to family members which in turn spread to public,let c

 

[Dr Christopher Cheok C S]

Why are we opening our borders to the world when WFH is the default arrangement whenever possible???​

 

[zhihau]

Why are we opening our borders to the world when WFH is the default arrangement whenever possible???​

What do you mean whenever possible? I see a lot of folks going to work!

 

[Dr Christopher Cheok C S]

What do you mean whenever possible? I see a lot of folks going to work!

I am refering to white collars. Divorce cases will be increasing the next 12 months because some told spouse they went work, but met lover. (cannot use zoom for petting)

 

[ginfreely]

His mother's CB must be dragged out to be nailed to the ceiling.

hey you self admitted JEREMY QUEK ASIAN TURTLE SON OF WHORE go to my facebook to scam my GOOD name to churn evil filthy lies of me a virgin as a fake virgin and dirty toilet bowl cheap cock sucker slut whore mistress and a dirty whore with millions of Indian customers and to harass me with porn photos AND TO ISSUE VIOLENT THREATS to win ok?

 

[searcher1]

By September, SG will have mostly vaccinated. Therefore safe to open borders for tourist to enter.
Whoever country open border first, they win the business & tourism economy

 

[Dr Christopher Cheok C S]

By September, SG will have mostly vaccinated. Therefore safe to open borders for tourist to enter.
Whoever country open border first, they win the business & tourism economy

Vaccinated can also go around infecting others. Our nation's issue is about contractions in our Public Health management.

Our policies are not implemented in the best interests of public health, but spinned based on other priorities and incompetences , eg. mocking you for wearing masks because of mask shortage, opening borders to save SIA, etc.

 

[zhihau]

we are looking at the calm before the storm

 

[Dr Christopher Cheok C S]

Singapore finding it hard to ‘live with Covid’​

https://asiatimes.com/2021/09/singapore-finding-it-hard-to-live-with-covid/

Lawrence Wong, Singapore’s finance minister and co-chair of a multi-ministry Covid-19 task force, conceded on September 24 that Singaporeans would be disappointed by the new curbs but said the city-state remains committed to its endemic strategy. Daily cases will eventually stabilize but remain “much higher” than previously, said the minister. “We are not going back to a scenario of low daily cases anymore. It’s not going to be possible, because we are moving forward to learn to live with the virus,” said Wong. “That’s part of the adjustment we all have to make to prepare ourselves for the time when Covid becomes an endemic disease and learn to live with more daily cases.”

But cases have risen faster than expected in Singapore due to the more contagious Delta variant. The island nation of 5.7 million recorded its highest-ever daily caseload of 1,939 on September 26. The Ministry of Health (MoH) projects daily cases to exceed 3,200 within a week at the current trajectory and says hospital capacity could come under strain if left unchecked.

Health Minister Ong Ye Kung said on Friday that Singapore will start ramping up plans to handle as many as 5,000 daily cases amid a surge that has seen consecutive days of record-high numbers. Intensive care unit (ICU) beds are set to be increased to 1,600, up from the current available capacity of 1,000, to cope with the rising number of infections.

The MoH has also stopped differentiating between linked and unlinked daily cases as Covid-19’s endemicity heightens. Unlinked cases have been a metric to watch since the pandemic began, often being cited as an indicator of undetected disease transmission, but are no longer as relevant as before, say experts, as Singapore now aims to “live with Covid.”

Medical experts say the island nation could see hundreds of deaths annually from endemic Covid-19, but the toll will ultimately depend on the number of deaths per day Singapore would be willing to accept as it permits larger social gatherings, reduces curbs on businesses, and re-opens borders to foreign travelers without quarantine requirements.

Israeli health officials have said the efficacy of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine wanes after six months, and that booster doses may help reduce transmission. But there is no scientific consensus that a third dose is necessary, and the World Health Organization (WHO) has said more of the world should be vaccinated with a first dose before people receive a third.

 

[Dr Christopher Cheok C S]

Singapore could see 2000 covid cases in October
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/singapore-2000-new-daily-covid-cases-october-lawrence-wong-132318306.html

We are now ahead of above forecast. There is no way for kids to return to school in mid-October with 2000-3000 daily cases. Many teachers are also now infected or with Quarantine Orders. Singapore needs a 6-8 week lockdown and block international travellers to stop the surge, otherwise COVID will be so deeply-rooted in our community that no amount of vaccination will curb the outbreak.