Corona Virus Disease (COVID-19) Updates
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MrsKiasu\" post_id=\"1971780\" time=\"1587271441\" user_id=\"43981:
I usually go to SS on a weekday around 2-3pm. It's not empty, but not too crowded. I just load up, pay up and leave as quickly as possible. I would also like to know when they fill the shelves! I've thought of going early in the morning, but I think the goods might be old and few by then. My guess is that they stock up in the late morning because that was what they used to do pre-Covid.
I have urge to go to SS few times even t
when I already got ready to sleep at 3am this morning..coz I would like to get stuffs I cant get at my side.. but I gave up coz worry all the way there to only see many sections not stock up yet..I know usually the outlet will be very crowded de.
I wonder when do the 24hrs SS do stocking up? -
chenlaoshi\" post_id=\"1971800\" time=\"1587277325\" user_id=\"162894:
chenlaoshi, thanks you..I have totally forgotten about that app.
MrsKiasu, you can check out this site/app: https://www.spaceout.gov.sg to check on crowd traffic of malls and supermarkets.MrsKiasu\" post_id=\"1971783\" time=\"1587271882\" user_id=\"43981:[quote=MrsKiasu post_id=1971783 time=1587271882 user_id=43981]I miss going to Amk hub..Can still go? How is the situation there?
phtthp\" post_id=\"1971793\" time=\"1587274577\" user_id=\"35251:I will be more concern with my health :oops: Long hours in front of the screen, especially on days packed with lessons can be a \"torment\"
You take care of your health! Hope things get better soon.. -
slmkhoo\" post_id=\"1971802\" time=\"1587277942\" user_id=\"28674:
thanks slmkhoo.. I will check the app before I make a trip
I usually go to SS on a weekday around 2-3pm. It's not empty, but not too crowded. I just load up, pay up and leave as quickly as possible. I would also like to know when they fill the shelves! I've thought of going early in the morning, but I think the goods might be old and few by then. My guess is that they stock up in the late morning because that was what they used to do pre-Covid.MrsKiasu\" post_id=\"1971780\" time=\"1587271441\" user_id=\"43981:
I have urge to go to SS few times even t
when I already got ready to sleep at 3am this morning..coz I would like to get stuffs I cant get at my side.. but I gave up coz worry all the way there to only see many sections not stock up yet..I know usually the outlet will be very crowded de.
I wonder when do the 24hrs SS do stocking up? -
SS not update on app…
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MrsKiasu\" post_id=\"1971806\" time=\"1587279312\" user_id=\"43981:
Where is 24 hr SS?
SS not update on app.. -
MyPillow:Where is 24 hr SS?
http://www.shengsiong.com.sg/pages/store-locator.html
I find mornings always busy at SS. Try late afternoons? - stock should be replenished by then bah. Btw, 'd seen some made in Australia face masks there, same price as the made in China ones.. -
.zeit\" post_id=\"1971769\" time=\"1587266418\" user_id=\"171271:
“Manually” calling each and every one of them? You know, even DHL scams are already automated. One day can dial out thousands of calls.
The best thing to do is to stay put at home and don't move around too much when the authorities are doing aggressive contact-tracing and testing.
If SAF, CID and MOH are still manually calling each and every one of them, making them recall their footprint over the past 2 weeks, I do not know how they can eventually cope if the nos continue to skyrocket. Not to mention they have to deal with language barrier, patients' fatigue & poor memory and unfamiliarity of Singapore venues to give precise locations, etc. Some could have just sat casually with or beside FDWs on open field near MRT stations or shopping centres, but they may not know the FDWs that well. Lots of CCTV footages to view.
If the contact tracers are swarmed, they can enlist the support of the public by releasing intimate details of confirmed cases' movement over a period of time on apps or websites. That means the public must check the online map and travel logs to see if they had ever come into contact with those individuals. If yes, they step forward to be screened, or their friend/family could alert them if they'd been to that same spot, e.g. MRT station toilet, at that same hour. South Korea did that but received much criticism from their human rights groups though.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00740-y
Taiwan did that twice, I recall. First - when they released all retail malls and tourist attractions (incl. time and duration) that thousands of passengers from Diamond Princess had visited in Northern Taiwan on 31 Jan, after disembarking at Keelung cruise port.
Second - when they released some very detailed CCTV records of where and when one illegal Indonesian hospice helper had visited over a 2-week period. The onus was then placed on members of the public to check their own schedule and tap on own memory to recall if they had come into contact with that Indon helper. If yes, they should 自行管理 health conditions or step fwd to be screened.
https://postimg.cc/kRqqsKQp
But from what I hv gathered so far from our local authorities, our MWs' movements seem to be easily traceable as they all go to the same fixed worksite and dorm daily. They only need to recall where they had gone to on 2 Sundays, which clinics they had visited. But Mustafa is merely the common thread that connects the South Asian cases. Remember in the Annex, there are also a few infected China MWs and Myanmar MWs, and these guys usually go to Geylang/Jurong and Peninsula/Fort Canning respectively.
I'm now just worried about essential workers like those doing residential vector control and healthcare workers who will continue to come into contact with locals. NTUC Online hires some PRC deliverymen too, so need to watch out when you receive your goods at the door.
Local Cases
I think MOH should learn from Korea and release intimate details of unlinked local cases' movement to the public to tap their recall. Our authorities seem to want the rest of us to leave all the behind-the-scene tracing to them by omitting movement details from the daily media releases. Earlier in Jan-Mar, at least we got to know which malls or which market, those cases had been to.
Now, such details are totally unknown to the media and the public. There are still many restless and bored Singaporeans walking around, jogging, cycling, taking joyrides and window-shopping in supermarkets blindly in the community. You might have just come into contact with a dollar note handed to you by a confirmed case at a food court.
As for language barrier, can still use machine translation tools lah.
I supposed after the manual calls, the most difficult part is to be able to link up the bits and pieces of info FAST enough to form the big picture. If really like you mentioned earlier, chart out the relationship trees manually (or using excel spreadsheet etc.), then what is the difference between what’s being done today and 10 years ago? Thought Singapore invested a lot in technology?
As to releasing patients particulars, I believe that is a red line MOH will not try to cross. And once a precedent is set, where to draw the line? Will MOH start to release HIV carriers’ names?
Regarding aggressive testing, Newspaper reported it as “active testing” and not “aggressive testing”. Active testing is like to lookout for someone who looks sick, then get him tested. Not ALL the FWs get tested. In no time, we will see army camps, HDB sites, SERS flats that have been used to house healthy FWs, take turns to report a spike in cases as all we need is just 1 asymptomatic FW among them.
I am not worried about those FWs as their schedules are quite known. But I am worried about those FWs residing outside dormitories. How many of them are out there and where are they staying now? An old private apartment in Balestier had put up a notice that a few FWs staying there are on SHN. I stopped going to Zhongshan Mall and City Square Mall (Farrer Park). FWs usually rent houses in Balestier/Little India/Geyland/Jurong etc. Some could be staying inside rented HDBs rented by their employers. -
As a Chinese saying goes, 只要家里还剩一根葱，坚决不往超市冲。
After my bad experience shopping in a crowded NTUC, I stopped going there for quite some time already.
Someone for sure will give me a heart attack by popping out from nowhere, suddenly standing beside/behind me, for which I am very sure, we are less than 1m from one another. Grocery shopping is no longer enjoyable to me.
Once, I overheard an auntie in front of me, told her hubby, hurry up hurry up, I want to go home shower. Lol.
Last week, @Coast has also recommended the above app but I have yet to try it. How often does NTUC update their data? I do not think it is to their advantage that they would say their supermarkets are now overcrowded, pls don’t come, unlike NParks.
Can we limit each family to only go grocery shopping to twice a week. Enter via QR code or wear a different colored wristband issued by govt, so at any one time, only 1pax per family can enter on selected days. As CB drags on, with the local cases reducing slowly, more and more people will come out for grocery shopping as we have limited places to go and feel safer. -
The crowd at ntuc amk hub today after 8.30pm is very ok. The non essential shops not open for bz helps alot. When I reached there on the way to ntuc, it feels like mall is closing. At ntuc, when we walked, it is like you scared of me and I scared of you haha… go to pay, can choose no queue counter…
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