Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) Updates
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Those students that Ong Ye Kung met face to face with in the halls are on LOA, I think? For info, there are many SC/PR returnees and service sector workers from other parts of China in Singapore between mid-Jan till CNY. They were gallivanting around and dining with us locals, and not on LOA throughout the festive season hor. I have already come into casual contact for less than 30 min with quite a no of them in CBD restaurants and hotels without wearing a mask. The closest (less than 2m) was probably with a Chinese waitress who was trying to promote some items on the Special CNY set menu. After 5 min, I realised she was too close for comfort and so I told her 没事，我们自己看菜单！so she disappeared.
Anyway, many of them are well–I hope, after reading about the Malaysian fella who was at Grand Hyatt from 16-23 Jan.
SIA stopped flying to many parts of China yesterday? JetStar’s on 7 Feb? Scoot up till 8 Feb? So there’re still some China-based SCs/PRs still here. And more SC/PRs/LTVP in China who still can fly home from now till 8 Feb via Scoot. They will be put under LOA I guess?
I also understand there are 30,000 WP holders (service, mfg, construction) who are still not back yet? -
.zeit\" post_id=\"1962151\" time=\"1580877721\" user_id=\"171271:
Flight range studies suggest that most female Ae. aegypti may spend their lifetime in or around the houses where they emerge as adults and they usually fly an average of 400 metres. This means that people, rather than mosquitoes, rapidly move the virus within and between communities and places.
https://www.who.int/denguecontrol/mosquito/en/ -
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.zeit\" post_id=\"1962151\" time=\"1580877721\" user_id=\"171271:
Surprisingly, despite understanding the realpolitik of this nonsense, otherwise intelligent people are still falling for the mass hysteria. If as they say, Communist China has been suppressing reporting of the number of cases in China, it follows that there must already be hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of cases in China. It also follows that the mortality rate from 2019-nCoV must then actually be less than 1%. The higher the denominator relative to the numerator, the lower the percentage. This is simple primary school maths. You cannot have it both ways.
It's pointless comparing all these different diseases with the Wuhan virus, because the reasons for certain public reactions and for taking certain actions are so obvious.
You know how the relationship between RSA / ME and the west is like (hint: oil, mutual econ benefit, terror, religion). You know US is the #1 superpower and barring its expats/investors from your shores because of H1N1 is just unthinkable.
You know US is having a trade war with China and Trump's been trying to order American MNCs to withdraw from China to invest back home and now with this indefinite mutual barring, whoa...
Besides, what is 2mil Hajj pilgrimages and 116mil Christmas journeys compared with the world's greatest human migration during the 40-day-long Chunyun's 3 billion passenger trips?
Congratulations! We have managed to become complicit in creating this mass Sinophobic hysteria over what is literally just a new strain of the common cold with a mortality rate no higher than the common flu.
Mark my words. I say this now. By the summer of this year, 2019-nCoV will become a WHO case study of over-reaction by world governments. Sadly, it may well also become another case of the boy who cried wolf, and will hamper effective control when a deadly novel strain of something or another actually pops up. -
The latest S Korean case had a meeting with the M’sian who caught the nCoV.
Cases within China spiked so fast 24553 confirmed & 492 as of this morning. Outside of China, increasingly many countries are still trying to bring their nationals home fr China & restrict flights fr China.
Spore schools & pte organizations doing temp checks vigilantly, sch cancelled camps, reduce large number gatherings & even orientations for new Yr 5 students are done classroom based & not as an entire Yr 5 group
Vigilance. -
.zeit\" post_id=\"1962154\" time=\"1580879413\" user_id=\"171271:
Honestly I don’t care whether he wears a mask or not although it’s scary to see those students still on LOA chatting with him in close range (less than 1m) and the students aren’t wearing masks themselves.
Those students that Ong Ye Kung met face to face with in the halls are on LOA, I think? For info, there are many SC/PR returnees and service sector workers from other parts of China in Singapore between mid-Jan till CNY. They were gallivanting around and dining with us locals, and not on LOA throughout the festive season hor. I have already come into casual contact for less than 30 min with quite a no of them in CBD restaurants and hotels without wearing a mask. The closest (less than 2m) was probably with a Chinese waitress who was trying to promote some items on the Special CNY set menu. After 5 min, I realised she was too close for comfort and so I told her 没事，我们自己看菜单！so she disappeared.
Anyway, many of them are well--I hope, after reading about the Malaysian fella who was at Grand Hyatt from 16-23 Jan.
I am more taken aback by his interview with channel 8, “it’s ok cos they don’t look sick”. He isn’t aware of the asymptomatic and yet possibly infectious nature of the virus? -
lee_yl\" post_id=\"1962163\" time=\"1580882724\" user_id=\"17023:
Exactly!! Sorry to be blunt, but I think it's very ultra brainless & irresponsible to say what he had said! & worst! It AGAIN send wrong message/idea to mass majority!! OnCe AGain! Esp after the 4 locally transmitted cases!!
Honestly I don’t care whether he wears a mask or not although it’s scary to see those students still on LOA chatting with him in close range (less than 1m) and the students aren’t wearing masks themselves..zeit\" post_id=\"1962154\" time=\"1580879413\" user_id=\"171271:
Those students that Ong Ye Kung met face to face with in the halls are on LOA, I think? For info, there are many SC/PR returnees and service sector workers from other parts of China in Singapore between mid-Jan till CNY. They were gallivanting around and dining with us locals, and not on LOA throughout the festive season hor. I have already come into casual contact for less than 30 min with quite a no of them in CBD restaurants and hotels without wearing a mask. The closest (less than 2m) was probably with a Chinese waitress who was trying to promote some items on the Special CNY set menu. After 5 min, I realised she was too close for comfort and so I told her 没事，我们自己看菜单！so she disappeared.
Anyway, many of them are well--I hope, after reading about the Malaysian fella who was at Grand Hyatt from 16-23 Jan.
I am more taken aback by his interview with channel 8, “it’s ok cos they don’t look sick”. He isn’t aware of the asymptomatic and yet possibly infectious nature of the virus? -
oh dear, i din manage to catch tis Ch 8 news...
it is indeed going to get more stressful with NO symtoms and of course No Sick look
how many masks can one mange to buy , if whole family wear daily... within 2wks to one month , masks will be
depleted. i scan the online Q10 ones,. based on current mask controlled situation by govt, most masks selling last weeks to now may not be real surgical masks . We need to build healthy immune system, rest more, drink more plain water, eat veges & fruits, balanced diet, vits etc wonder will Hot sun/UV hot weather helping to slow spread of virus? -
cool_hi\" post_id=\"1962164\" time=\"1580883428\" user_id=\"18293:
Exactly!! Sorry to be blunt, but I think it's very ultra brainless to say what he had said! & worst! It AGAIN send wrong message/idea to mass majority!! OnCe AGain! Esp after the 4 locally transmitted cases!![/quote]Yes, correct, cool_hi just hit the nail
Honestly I don’t care whether he wears a mask or not although it’s scary to see those students still on LOA chatting with him in close range (less than 1m) and the students aren’t wearing masks themselves.lee_yl\" post_id=\"1962163\" time=\"1580882724\" user_id=\"17023:
[quote=.zeit post_id=1962154 time=1580879413 user_id=171271]Those students that Ong Ye Kung met face to face with in the halls are on LOA, I think? For info, there are many SC/PR returnees and service sector workers from other parts of China in Singapore between mid-Jan till CNY. They were gallivanting around and dining with us locals, and not on LOA throughout the festive season hor. I have already come into casual contact for less than 30 min with quite a no of them in CBD restaurants and hotels without wearing a mask. The closest (less than 2m) was probably with a Chinese waitress who was trying to promote some items on the Special CNY set menu. After 5 min, I realised she was too close for comfort and so I told her 没事，我们自己看菜单！so she disappeared.
Anyway, many of them are well--I hope, after reading about the Malaysian fella who was at Grand Hyatt from 16-23 Jan.
I am more taken aback by his interview with channel 8, “it’s ok cos they don’t look sick”. He isn’t aware of the asymptomatic and yet possibly infectious nature of the virus?
some more, he said this, when virus is spreading so rapidly and death toll keep escalating
Really, this guy no sense of sensitivity at all, to the crisis faced by the messed-up world -
pirate\" post_id=\"1962161\" time=\"1580881648\" user_id=\"66252:
Well, the number of deaths could increase both the numerator and the denominator simultaneously, and the resulting percentage could go either way. Besides, there are many still unrecovered and we wouldn't know which side they will add to statistically.
Surprisingly, despite understanding the realpolitik of this nonsense, otherwise intelligent people are still falling for the mass hysteria. If as they say, Communist China has been suppressing reporting of the number of cases in China, it follows that there must already be hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of cases in China. It also follows that the mortality rate from 2019-nCoV must then actually be less than 1%. The higher the denominator relative to the numerator, the lower the percentage. This is simple primary school maths. You cannot have it both ways.
Congratulations! We have managed to become complicit in creating this mass Sinophobic hysteria over what is literally just a new strain of the common cold with a mortality rate no higher than the common flu.
Mark my words. I say this now. By the summer of this year, 2019-nCoV will become a WHO case study of over-reaction by world governments. Sadly, it may well also become another case of the boy who cried wolf, and will hamper effective control when a deadly novel strain of something or another actually pops up.
To each his own. There is no need to call on anyone's intelligence. It is natural for people to feel anxious in the face of a new virus.
有备无患。Sometimes it is better to over-react than under.
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