Singapore—Madam Ho Ching, the wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, noted in an Oct 27 Facebook post that there has been a “sharp drop” in people who chose to go out to eat after the limit of two vaccinated persons was implemented, based on Singapore’s Google mobility data.
However, this respite did not last long at all. People started eating out again, although in not as high numbers when the limit was at 5 people.
“Still it meant that we are not thinning out as much as we can,” observed Mdm Ho, adding that “The hunger for social makan is high,” and acknowledging that this is “part of human nature.”
And despite the high number of cases at present, based on figures from epidemiology studies studies in the US, she wrote that it’s likely that Singapore has between 3 and 5 undetected Covid cases for every case confirmed and reported.
This is not a negative thing, she explained, and neither is getting Covid.
“We can only hope that with hugh (sic) vaccination, we have many more undetected cases among the well protected to act as a booster to prevent further reinfections going forward.”
The important thing is that the estimated 70,000 seniors who have remained unvaccinated are not infected with Covid and fall seriously ill, in order to prevent the hospital systems from becoming overwhelmed.
She further noted that while Singapore’s cases are not “doubling,” they are still growing.
However, Mdm Ho insisted that the number of cases has nothing to do with the Vaccinated Travel Lane “VTLs or incoming visitors or returning Singaporeans. It has nothing to do with non VTL arrivals too.”
“Let’s face it, be honest,” she added “the virus is among us, in you or me…but if we are vaccinated, and boosted when eligible, we no longer should fear the virus.”
She then went on to say “Getting covided (sic) should not be a stigma.”
Mdm Ho then brought up again the country’s unvaccinated seniors, saying they should be avoided “to lower the risk of passing on to them, until they have been fully vaccinated.”
She then made a leap in her thinking and tackled “the toxins.”
“These are not the vaccines – the real toxins are the virus.
We do not sin by getting a jab, or two, or three.
We do not go to hell by taking a shot of vaccine.
We save a life from covid dangers with each fully vaccination,” she wrote, before going back to the mobility data adding that “we may have to tahan 2-4 months, rather than 1-3 months.” /TISG
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