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To close, or not close, is that the only choice for MOE?

Following the online publication of my article “Has Case 152 rang (sic) the alarm bell on COVID-19 medical tourists coming to Singapore?” on 11 March 2020, I am delighted to see that some measures which are of a similar nature and/or purpose to those which I had suggested in that article, had subsequently been announced...

How serious is the pandemic?

The World Health Organization website reported 33,982 deaths out of 722,464 infected people, giving a mortality rate of 4.7%. On its own, the deaths of 33,982 is not alarming. Each year, 3 million people die from pneumonia caused by all kinds of germs. Most of the deaths from the corona virus are related to pneumonia. What the...

What are we to make of an opposition that is reduced to being a mere spectator in a crisis?

The opposition watches and waits out the crisis while the government hogs the headlines and sucks up all the oxygen. As the COVID-19 pandemic rages on, the opposition finds itself sidelined, perhaps even crippled. Apart from objecting to the spectre of a COVID-19 general election, and distributing hand sanitisers and soaps...