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A good way to do contact tracing

There is a good way and a bad way to do contact tracing. A good way is for the infected person to state who are they people they have close contact with during the past two weeks. The relevant agency can trace these people. This type of contact tracing makes more sense. In Australia, they trace the people sitting next to an...

Are telcos doing enough to protect consumers from scam?

Scam calls have been an issue for Singapore society for the longest time, with elderly citizens often being the victims. Even with all these reports of scam calls, neither the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) nor any of the telcos have stepped forward to offer a solution. Browsing the comments sections of the telcos'...

Why the spread of covid-19 is slow in Singapore

I urge Singaporeans to think rationally. We have 91 covid-19 cases in Singapore. Were all of these people identified early? No! Some of them came from Wuhan and Hubei and has been around for a while. They must have contacted many people in the hotel, shops, taxis and public transport, but the virus did not transmit. What about...