Coronavirus 2019-2020 thread (no unsubstantiated rumours!)
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There is no need to hoard vaccines for next year. 204 million shots are just too many especially you might only need one booster shot.
High vaccination rate does seem to prevent a rapid surge of Delta.
This is from my own experience/readings/friends/family...
I think the current heritage situation in Singapore can draw heavy influence from a few factors besides Geopolitics.
1. The historical factor where Singapore was basically booted from Malaysia because of local Chinese control. As such the government made a lot of effort to try to look less catering to the Chinese majority too much.
2. The Singapore government's own confused policy of suppressing heritage here, promoting it there. For example, they tried to kill dialects by promoting standard Mandarin. This is a big issue because as mainly Southerners, they never had a history of speaking Mandarin. It is trying to drive a wedge between the country's policy and one's own family. Then they take it one further by trying to kill dialect names (Li instead of Lee, even for PM's children, Wang instead of Ong, etc.). Then because of unpopularity, try to roll back some of the policies, but already it was partially implemented.
3. Western-influenced 21st century trend of "apologizing for privilege". Those educated overseas probably see what western countries are doing now and apply the same in an Asian context. Personally I think these campaigns even in Western countries is way overboard.
Finally, to cut them some slack. In my experience, Singapore Chinese (and most SEA-Chinese) at least realize they are CHINESE. Knowing they are Chinese is already a lot better than Taiwanese and HKers who say "I'M NOT CHINESE" despite being both ethnically Chinese and Chinese nationals! There is a separation between nationality and heritage, this is reality, We also have to recognize that PRC also waged their own campaign to standardize language which weakened some of the traditional links. Also, the closed door period of 50 years did not help either.
I'll stop here, anymore discussion should be moved to the Overseas thread.
Back on topic...
Some ideas on the origin...
The quickness of the move from Alpha to Delta kind of underlies the speed of mutation of the virus.
It would give credence to the idea that there was another progenitor in between Wuhan that may have created the Wuhan wave and then subsequently the European wave..
Or am I totally out to lunch here?
Some ideas on the origin...
The quickness of the move from Alpha to Delta kind of underlies the speed of mutation of the virus.
It would give credence to the idea that there was another progenitor in between Wuhan that may have created the Wuhan wave and then subsequently the European wave..
Or am I totally out to lunch here?
Is this a joke? Last time I checked April Fools day is in April.
No joke. That is the #1 issue and cause of lot of strange things on US vis-a-vis World/China. That is, American elites genetically believe that US is #1 by default. Otherwise, someone tells me how both sides could have converged so easily on anti-China subjects while the whole political system is fractured and paralyzed.
I am surprised that Vietnam seems to be unable to contain this wave of coronavirus.
Britain plans to offer a booster shot in fall. I would think the US is not far behind on the decision to offer a booster shot.