Thus, what Mr Leong is effectively saying, is that our government is no better than you or I. Faced with the insurmountable 5 million masks per day, it cannot think out of the box to solve our problem. Sadly, we don’t have anyone in the government of the same calibre as those in Taiwan.
Masks are like bullets
Mr Leong wrote:
That is a fundamentally wrong analogy to use in this situation.
Can the firstline healthcare worker shoot and kill the virus enemy with its bullet mask? He can’t. Because the mask is not a bullet. It is a shield. It protects the firstline healthcare worker but doesn’t allow him to shoot back and kill the virus enemy. So the virus enemy is free to go past the firstline and attack the people in the rear. Without masks, the people in the rear are just sitting ducks.
In war, soldiers hold the front line, people at the back are safe. But in this corona warfare, the virus can easily cross the firstline and firstline workers are helpless to stop them. Once the backline people get infected, the virus will spread like wildfire. That was essentially what happened in the dormitories.
There is no point holding the frontline only to have the virus run havoc through the backlines. The government (and Mr Leong) are too focused on the frontline to realise that this war has no fronts. It is everywhere and anywhere.
Why does the government ask us to wash our hands regularly and sanitize the things we touch? Because the virus is everywhere and anywhere. It is not just at the frontlines.
Most logical, correct choice
Mr Leong wrote:
Because Mr Leong didn’t understand the fundamental situation correctly as exemplified by his false analogy, his conclusion was therefore wrong too.
This war is very similar to the Walking Dead. Any infected person, not just the frontline person, can become a new zombie and infect many other persons. Any newly infected zombie essentially becomes a new frontline. So in this battle, it is useless to only protect the ‘frontline’. All must be protected for the battle to be won. Any backline that is not protected can easily become the new frontline from within.
Mask re-use through sterilisation and reusable cloth masks were very doable solutions that should not have taken a genius to realise.
Infection rate is testing rate
Mr Leong wrote:
Having established that the infected number may not be the actual infected number as it merely reflects the number of persons tested, it is bewildering that Mr Leong would go on to use “every 10,000 infected” to do analysis.
If infected number isn’t reliable, would deaths per infected number be reliable?
Putting an unreliable number into the denominator would magically make it reliable? What silly first principle is that?
Instead of looking at death rate per 10,000 infected as Mr Leong proposed, isn’t it better to just look at death rate per population since population number is quite stable and doesn’t involve the unreliable infected number?
https://trulysingapore.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/4.png
Masks are like bullets
Mr Leong wrote:
That is a fundamentally wrong analogy to use in this situation.
Can the firstline healthcare worker shoot and kill the virus enemy with its bullet mask? He can’t. Because the mask is not a bullet. It is a shield. It protects the firstline healthcare worker but doesn’t allow him to shoot back and kill the virus enemy. So the virus enemy is free to go past the firstline and attack the people in the rear. Without masks, the people in the rear are just sitting ducks.
In war, soldiers hold the front line, people at the back are safe. But in this corona warfare, the virus can easily cross the firstline and firstline workers are helpless to stop them. Once the backline people get infected, the virus will spread like wildfire. That was essentially what happened in the dormitories.
There is no point holding the frontline only to have the virus run havoc through the backlines. The government (and Mr Leong) are too focused on the frontline to realise that this war has no fronts. It is everywhere and anywhere.
Why does the government ask us to wash our hands regularly and sanitize the things we touch? Because the virus is everywhere and anywhere. It is not just at the frontlines.
Most logical, correct choice
Mr Leong wrote:
Because Mr Leong didn’t understand the fundamental situation correctly as exemplified by his false analogy, his conclusion was therefore wrong too.
This war is very similar to the Walking Dead. Any infected person, not just the frontline person, can become a new zombie and infect many other persons. Any newly infected zombie essentially becomes a new frontline. So in this battle, it is useless to only protect the ‘frontline’. All must be protected for the battle to be won. Any backline that is not protected can easily become the new frontline from within.
Mask re-use through sterilisation and reusable cloth masks were very doable solutions that should not have taken a genius to realise.
Infection rate is testing rate
Mr Leong wrote:
Having established that the infected number may not be the actual infected number as it merely reflects the number of persons tested, it is bewildering that Mr Leong would go on to use “every 10,000 infected” to do analysis.
If infected number isn’t reliable, would deaths per infected number be reliable?
Putting an unreliable number into the denominator would magically make it reliable? What silly first principle is that?
Instead of looking at death rate per 10,000 infected as Mr Leong proposed, isn’t it better to just look at death rate per population since population number is quite stable and doesn’t involve the unreliable infected number?
https://trulysingapore.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/4.png
