Serious PAP used Covid Task Force to showcase 4G leaders - exposed to be incompetent instead

[bobby]

Obviously some ministers, esp small space sex Jo, Hong Gan & Lawlan, did not read the memo issued by Pinky on Jan 23.......

SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Thursday (Jan 23) that Singapore is "much better prepared" to deal with another virus outbreak since the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2003.

“We have been preparing for this since SARS,” said Mr Lee, who was speaking at the sidelines of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

 

[Confuseous]

Obviously some ministers, esp small space sex Jo, Hong Gan & Lawlan, did not read the memo issued by Pinky on Jan 23.......

SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Thursday (Jan 23) that Singapore is "much better prepared" to deal with another virus outbreak since the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2003.

“We have been preparing for this since SARS,” said Mr Lee, who was speaking at the sidelines of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

He didn't not check his wife's FB - telling the world that no one should be using the SARS experience to fight this COVID

 

[bobby]

This article from 30 Jan earlier this year...

Healthy people don't need to wear surgical masks: Experts

To wear or not to wear? That is the question as people all over are gripped by fear of the Wuhan virus, which has claimed at least 130 lives so far in China.

In Singapore, the answer is clear from the long queues outside stores selling face masks, which have been flying off the shelves.

At Resorts World Sentosa (RWS), some front-line staff were upset after they were apparently told not to wear face masks at work in case they alarm the guests.

In text messages seen by The New Paper, several guest services staff at Universal Studios Singapore in RWS discussed their concern about having to interact with tourists, including those from China.

Yesterday, the Ministry of Health (MOH) confirmed three new cases of infection, bringing the total to 10.

As in the previous seven cases, all three new patients are from Wuhan in China's Hubei province.


A member of the RWS message group confirmed the message exchange as authentic but declined to comment further.

One message said: "I don't feel comfortable coming to work knowing that there is no precaution for us other than sanitisers."

One of the replies, possibly from a supervisor, said: "Please do note, all guests before entering any of our attractions, will be scanned to see if they have a fever.

"Please bear with us and I'm sure you'll see things are being done to ensure your safety at work."

TNP understands the exchange took place last week, when the workers' requests to be allowed to wear masks at work were turned down.

When contacted yesterday, an RWS spokesman said the claims were untrue.

"Since the masks were made available on Jan 24, all team members who feel the need to wear masks can wear masks," he said.

The spokesman would not confirm whether the staff were allowed to wear their own masks at work before last Friday, but added: "RWS stands guided by the Ministry of Health's advisory even before Jan 24."

Healthy people wearing face masks, mainly surgical masks, as a precaution are now a common sight in Singapore, but MOH's advisory notes that this is not necessary.

However, those who are sick with symptoms such as fever, cough or runny nose should wear surgical masks so as not to spread their illnesses to others.

Dr Chia Shi-Lu, chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Health, told TNP yesterday that employers have no legal right to stop their workers from wearing a mask.

But he also stressed it is a misconception that wearing a mask will provide adequate protection against the coronavirus.

Experts have pointed out that good personal hygiene such as washing hands or using sanitisers is more effective than wearing a mask.

Professor Leo Yee Sin, executive director of the National Centre for Infectious Diseases, said that while the N95 mask gives the best protection, it is not practical for the public as most people do not know how to wear it correctly.

She told The Straits Times: "If you find the N95 mask easy to breathe in and comfortable, you are wearing it wrong and it is no use. It is only when it is difficult to breathe in that you are wearing it correctly."

Dr Chia said the RWS incident highlighted how many Singaporeans might still not understand when to use a mask or what its purpose is for.

He said: "It is the same as during normal times - wear a mask only if you are unwell and going out so as not to pass your germs to other people."

Some hotels such as the Royal Plaza on Scotts are providing their staff with masks and hand sanitisers.

The hotel's general manager, Mr Patrick Fiat, said it is also conducting temperature screenings of guests at the hotel entrance.

The temperature of employees is also monitored twice a day.

"The front-line employees are at higher risk as they have close exposure or direct contact with travellers," Mr Fiat added.

Food delivery companies Deliveroo, Foodpanda and Grab, which also has a ride-hailing service, have taken precautions for its partners.

A Deliveroo spokesman said yesterday: "We have prepared masks for riders starting from (today) to protect their health."

A Grab spokesman told TNP: "Grab is concurrently working on stockpiling masks and disinfectants for deployment should the need arise.

"We are also in touch with the local authorities and ready to provide support to help reduce the transmission of the virus."

Singapore Airlines is also providing surgical masks to crew members on flights to places affected by the Wuhan virus.

 

[hofmann]

Actually.....honestly what could they have done?

Where are you going to house 100k people?

Build more dorms? But sg no space.

And a lot of these workers are cheap labor good to have. Cheap. So ask then stop work? Nope.

They already did a good job not allowing the dorm workers to spread to general population.

Could have been worse!

The dorms can be built higher. Plenty of air space available. If hdb can go 40 stories, why not dorms. They should be housed in HDB-like flats instead of being packed together like farm animals.

Worker levy $700. Government is milking the workers and companies and people dry. This levy cost gets passed on to all of us.

 

[steffychun]

So many failed scholar generals. Time to sent them back to fight real war in Ukraine or Iraq/Syria or Afghanistan!

 

[GoldenDragon]

The dorms can be built higher. Plenty of air space available. If hdb can go 40 stories, why not dorms. They should be housed in HDB-like flats instead of being packed together like farm animals.

Worker levy $700. Government is milking the workers and companies and people dry. This levy cost gets passed on to all of us.

Yes. Something similar to the officers from the Gurkha Contingent. Maybe because of the roles they play in S’pore - to ensure the safety of the PM!

 

[congo9]

This pandemic is a showcase for lhl to show Singkie how competent his 4G leaders are. How effective is the PAP governance approach and winning strategy (system of government). Never mind I smear and badmouth the opposition and make them a laughing stock for whole Singapore.

Life is unfair but it is not unjust all the time. This pandemics has just showcase how woefully incompetent the 4g leaders are. Joe Teo, CCS and Gan are the finest specimen of highly paid but woefully lacking in their respective Ministry. Plus the policy short sightedness because of their neo liberal dogma.

It also showcase the policy's systematic fault PAP has created for themselves by injecting "steroid" all these years to grow their GDP. AS A result, Overcrowding, trains begin to breakdown, costing has sky rocketed as a result of over demand with little supply and woefully lack of preparation for large scale pandemics though they Claim this is a "Black Swan" event.

After throwing so much resources to house the infected and healthy foreigner, how are they going to solve the problem post pandemic environment? Demand drop, costs also crept up a lot, GDP going downward, loses of revenue.

We had been living in comfortable for too long. Time for pap to shift their gear.

 

[nightsafari]

The dorms can be built higher. Plenty of air space available. If hdb can go 40 stories, why not dorms. They should be housed in HDB-like flats instead of being packed together like farm animals.

Worker levy $700. Government is milking the workers and companies and people dry. This levy cost gets passed on to all of us.

because it's cheaper to house them that way...

maximize profits....

 

[nightsafari]

dynastic succession some more lah... jail and sue credible opposition some more lah... ownself promote ownself some more lah...



what a waste of 1G efforts...

 

[hofmann]

because it's cheaper to house them that way...

maximize profits....

Sad but true. What's the going rental rate for a room in a hdb flat? $600-700? Can easily use the workers levy money to house them 2 to a room with lots of change to spare. The rest could pay for their food and transport. All benefiting the local economy instead of being gambled away by Temasek.

 

[LaoTze]

Well... we've had a chief moron since 2004. His minions are but a mere reflection of his own idiocy.

When you take a morning shit and don't wipe your ass thoroughly, Lee Hsien Loong would be that crust of shit remaining on your perineum.

 

[Confuseous]

It also showcase the policy's systematic fault PAP has created for themselves by injecting "steroid" all these years to grow their GDP. AS A result, Overcrowding, trains begin to breakdown, costing has sky rocketed as a result of over demand with little supply and woefully lack of preparation for large scale pandemics though they Claim this is a "Black Swan" event. QUOTE]

The ministers bonus is calculated on GDP figures which is nonsense. It is just a "turnover" figure as in company reports and does not
reflect profitability at all. So, that is why they have been focusing on "services" which allow them to generate GDP without building
infrastructure. Prior to the recent openings of the last two hospitals, ZERO hospitals were added, the 6.9million figure notwithstanding

 

[Kee Chew]

Yahoo,

Joe Low 3 hours ago


Coronavirus BIG mistakes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
No.1: When we were told in January it is not as serious as SARS, I think the multi-taskforce agencies would have lowered their guards too, in order to toe their master’s “thoughts”.

No.2: When imported cases started to appear, not only measures were not strictly implemented but were lax too. Places can be shut for cleaning for just 1 to 3 days and then re-starting until few more cases appears and clusters are formed then the taskforce willing to shut for 14 days.

No.3: Allowing returnees (Citizens, PRs, dependants, long term pass holders) to be housed at home for SHN or even paying lavishly for 5-Star hotels. These people can sneak out and don’t know home many get away with it. And showing to the world the 5-Star luxury all inclusive 14-days quarantine attracted even more to come back (and spread the virus).

No.4: Not curbing the foreign workers dorms issue early even though as early as March, cases were already increasing by alarming numbers. And even when whole SG in CB on 7 April, it was only on 22 April that near to 200,000 construction workers were told to stop work, that is when cases were exploding out of control. What under their radar did MOM Jo Teo mentioned? Not logical a statement by MOM

No.5: With Dorm cases hitting 20,000 now, the taskforce actually did another mistake to house these FW all over Singapore in hotels, cruise ships, HDB flats, state properties such that these workers can spread the virus to others, instead of concentrating them to few big locations so easier to monitor and contain the virus.

 

[laksaboy]

Obviously some ministers, esp small space sex Jo, Hong Gan & Lawlan, did not read the memo issued by Pinky on Jan 23.......

SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Thursday (Jan 23) that Singapore is "much better prepared" to deal with another virus outbreak since the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) epidemic in 2003.

“We have been preparing for this since SARS,” said Mr Lee, who was speaking at the sidelines of the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

Bragging to his fellow globalists at Davos.

 

[laksaboy]

Yahoo,

Joe Low 3 hours ago


Coronavirus BIG mistakes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
No.1: When we were told in January it is not as serious as SARS, I think the multi-taskforce agencies would have lowered their guards too, in order to toe their master’s “thoughts”.

No.2: When imported cases started to appear, not only measures were not strictly implemented but were lax too. Places can be shut for cleaning for just 1 to 3 days and then re-starting until few more cases appears and clusters are formed then the taskforce willing to shut for 14 days.

No.3: Allowing returnees (Citizens, PRs, dependants, long term pass holders) to be housed at home for SHN or even paying lavishly for 5-Star hotels. These people can sneak out and don’t know home many get away with it. And showing to the world the 5-Star luxury all inclusive 14-days quarantine attracted even more to come back (and spread the virus).

No.4: Not curbing the foreign workers dorms issue early even though as early as March, cases were already increasing by alarming numbers. And even when whole SG in CB on 7 April, it was only on 22 April that near to 200,000 construction workers were told to stop work, that is when cases were exploding out of control. What under their radar did MOM Jo Teo mentioned? Not logical a statement by MOM

No.5: With Dorm cases hitting 20,000 now, the taskforce actually did another mistake to house these FW all over Singapore in hotels, cruise ships, HDB flats, state properties such that these workers can spread the virus to others, instead of concentrating them to few big locations so easier to monitor and contain the virus.

No. 1: The Tiongs call it the '可防可控' phase, like in Wuhan earlier this year.
No. 2: The 'the show must go on' phase, around the time of the Chingay Parade.
No. 3: The 'let's trust Tedros and the WHO, wait for further instructions' phase.
No. 4: The 'cover Jo Teo's backside' phase.
No. 5: The 'Sinkies are to blame, let's not be xenophobic' phase.

 

[Annunaki]

 

[LaoTze]

No.5: With Dorm cases hitting 20,000 now, the taskforce actually did another mistake to house these FW all over Singapore in hotels, cruise ships, HDB flats, state properties such that these workers can spread the virus to others, instead of concentrating them to few big locations so easier to monitor and contain the virus.

ok what!

make it lagi convenient for them to see their gfs maids to pak tor and to tiew and to kann
maids can then bring back to Ah Sir.

And many of those Ah Sirs wear white or cronies or crassloot leechers