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emoh\" post_id=\"2024709\" time=\"1621474850\" user_id=\"10618:

https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/hotel-quarantine-for-covid-19-feels-more-like-staycation-than-jail

https://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=95466&p=2024394&hilit=floppy#p2024394,

\"I think most children will treat it like a staycation that come with a lot of restrictions...\"

[starlight1968sg]

https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/what-lies-beneath-the-unhappiness-over-covid-resurgence-in-spore


Are you feeling so?

[sky minecrafter]

starlight1968sg\" post_id=\"2024717\" time=\"1621479570\" user_id=\"14025:

https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/what-lies-beneath-the-unhappiness-over-covid-resurgence-in-spore

Are you feeling so?

Oh I had read that! θυμός haha

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starlight1968sg\" post_id=\"2024717\" time=\"1621479570\" user_id=\"14025:

https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/what-lies-beneath-the-unhappiness-over-covid-resurgence-in-spore

Are you feeling so?

Unfortunately.... very much so.

The government was quick to close the borders to a lot of countries, including some of our closest neighbours for fear of introducing more infection to the public. Our closest neighbour, where a number of our citizens still maintain blood ties, is closed for more than a year already. Yet, when the numbers in India are heading northwards, and reports are warning of the Indian variant, we continue to let non-SC, non-PR, non-work / non-business related people in. There's an uneven and unequal treatment at play. When numbers of non-community cases, in particular from a particular country (err... please lah, people not so stupid... there aren't many flights to / from anywhere these days) are rising, we seem to be complacent in our ability to contain them.

This para probably sums it all up:

\"The exasperation is over the letting in of dependants of other employment pass holders, whether a computer programmer or a logistics manager. Further, talk of a heavy economic cost to the country cannot but strike a discordant note with those who are already suffering a loss of earnings as a result of the tightened restrictions. More likely than not, this dissonance between complaint and response buttresses the feeling that the powers that be have chosen to obfuscate, temporise or not address what they consider as uninformed outbursts.\"

[zac's mum]

So whose head should roll next GE hah?

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zac's mum\" post_id=\"2024725\" time=\"1621481228\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=2024725 time=1621481228 user_id=53606]
So whose head should roll next GE hah?[/quote]

It depends on a number of things lah (most of it, uncertain currently):
- Who are the candidates;
- Where the candidates are being fielded;
- State of the pandemic / economy.
Not so easy to unseat an incumbent or Minister ok *

My guess is places like East Coast (East Coast Plan redux?), Punggol (depending on how Pasir Ris / Punggol is going to be broken up) and Tampines are going to see fierce battle (again).
Newer estates with a younger populace (typically left-leaning, PMET, etc) will continue to drift away from PAP.

* That said, the relative safety of GRC is crumbling. It took the opposition 23 years to bring down the first GRC... and only 8 years to bring down the second.

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starlight1968sg\" post_id=\"2024717\" time=\"1621479570\" user_id=\"14025:

https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/what-lies-beneath-the-unhappiness-over-covid-resurgence-in-spore

Are you feeling so?

IMO, it is a well-written article that reflects ground sentiments.

Anecdotal evidence and open expressions of disaffection in the social media space would suggest that there is certainly unhappiness that early calls for a pause to arrivals from high-risk countries had gone unheeded.

It is this, coupled with the suspicion that complacency had set in, that upset the complainants. And it is exacerbated by the perception that their honest misgivings have either been met with silence or deflected by officials who believe they have thought through everything and that the disgruntled Singaporeans just do not get the big picture.

What fuelled this perception is the regular official reminder that Singapore needs migrant workers and that there will be a grave economic cost if the country shuts its borders. This has not gone down well because Singaporeans, by and large, do understand that foreign workers are needed in construction, nursing and other sectors which the local workforce shuns. And they are not clamouring for a complete shutdown of the borders.

The exasperation is over the letting in of ...

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zac's mum\" post_id=\"2024725\" time=\"1621481228\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=2024725 time=1621481228 user_id=53606]
So whose head should roll next GE hah?[/quote]

I don't think WP has scored points either. I may be wrong but did they voice out the concerns raised in the article?

https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/what-lies-beneath-the-unhappiness-over-covid-resurgence-in-spore

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coast\" post_id=\"2024731\" time=\"1621481997\" user_id=\"38933:

....

The exasperation is over the letting in of ...

Soon, I think C**A is going to be as vulgar as the word F**K.

[Zappy]

zac's mum\" post_id=\"2024725\" time=\"1621481228\" user_id=\"53606:[quote=\"zac's mum\" post_id=2024725 time=1621481228 user_id=53606]
So whose head should roll next GE hah?[/quote]

OYK, in my opinion.
- for only keeping to his narrow kpi of opening up (although I acknowledge the other ministers shld hv voiced out as well
- for not even ensuring the basic task of segregating high-risk flights when they come in, causing intermingling in the secure zones (the Changi Airport Grp mgt should also take the hit here).