Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)
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The country that started the pandemic is number 1 for safest places to be who comes up with this crap
The criteria used to make this ranking makes no sense. For example, number of total routes with vaccinated country, doesn't take into account the vaccination rate at source/destination. Doesn't take into account current case-loads or available beds at hospitals/ICUs. Uses air traffic change over one week period, which is irrelevant to resiliency.
It includes vaccination rates, but doesn't include contact tracing, testing capabilities, or lack of herd immunity rates. Any nation with vaccination rates below herd immunity rates is susceptible to outbreaks.
Overall, a very poor job.... But atleast China is in the top 10.
Bro, Influenza only existed for 43 years?
Ever heard of 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic? Influenza virus has existed for thousands of years.
You are entirely clueless anti-vaxxer, an entire joke.
You think spanish flu and Influenza are the same thing do you ok Einstein? You must be an American also then
yeah we really need to learn to filter out the bs from the english-speaking journalists in this country haha especially since this publication has a british parent company
About 11% of Singaporeans are descended from the Pearl River Delta. Unlikely to be HK, since he is a senior civil servant and has no trace of the Hong Kong accent
The Singapore government frequently promotes ties with India, no matter how suicidal. Especially this nightmare economic treaty involving investments, expatriate visas, tariff elimination etc that they continue upholding for no logical reason, even as the Indian government keeps using it to demand more visas for their expatriates. It seems that when it was signed, the powers that be really believed that India will become a superpower that Singaporeans can benefit from. But shhh, raise it up and some might call you a racist!
Shortly after PM Lee and Pres Xi opened the China Cultural Centre in Singapore , Lee had to go open a Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre that narrowly celebrates only locally developed Chinese activities In his opening speech he had to emphasise that Singaporean Chinese are different from China, Taiwan or HK
If you are in Singapore for a long enough time you'd notice that the government has been extremely successful at creating a mental disconnect between China and Chinese. "Chinese" is reserved for local Chinese things; anything China-related is never called "Chinese" but "ChinA" with the letter A emphasised, or if they really want to be derogatory, they will say "PRC". This is the same Singapore that celebrated the 10th October Revolution with massive parades every year until the 1950s.
On top of that is endless guilt tripping with the multiculturalism card. We've got to the point where everyone expects fast food/family dining chains in the country to meet Islamic dietary requirements, and Tamil, a language spoken by half of the 9% of citizens who are of Indian-descent, has to be included in announcements and sign boards. But because the trains use only English and Mandarin to announce stations, there is a continuous swarm of angry open letters complaining of racial injustice and chauvinism. So you'd understand why people are scared. Being associated to China is either a badge of shame or a millstone around the neck: look at this survey:
Why is it okay to be proud of Indian heritage but then somehow shames or worst pretend that the Singaporean Chinese are not "Chinese" or ask implicitly to deny their Chinese heritage? I am again thankful that it's the CPC that's in the government of China and that it's General Secretary Xi Jinping that's at the helm of leadership in China that encourage the spirit of nationalism and to be proud of it's Chinese heritage. There's nothing to be ashamed of being Chinese at all.
solarz
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Countries like Singapore are just opportunist jackals. Unable to compete with the apex predators of the world, they resort to favour currying for scraps.
They know they will always be at the mercy of bigger countries, so they seek the protection of the strongest faction.
Once the American decline becomes too obvious to deny, they will change their tune right quick.
Also don't forget that many of the elites and establishments in Singapore are products of the elitist Anglo centric system. Most of these senior civil servants and ruling politicians have been educated in elitist system, culminating in Harvard, Yale and Cambridge with outlook that identifies with Anglo-centric system. I'm quite sure many of them have been cultivated by the US government, agencies or multi-nationals in one way or another throughout their careers.