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The history and the consequences of Black Death in the 14th Century is well recorded. I want to emphasize two points. 1. The social consequences of the plague [Black Death] on society came to be profound. The high mortality rate resulted in a drastic decline in the labor force. Wages rose for both agricultural and urban workers.... 

The New Year message by late Lee Kuan Yew (LKY) in 1982 was to have a wholly Singaporean workforce by 1991. The reason he cited was that it was not desirable socially, politically and economically to depend on a large migrant workforce, citing the examples of France, UK and even West Germany, which had large migrant workforces... 

Those intriguing five words were sent via WhatsApp by a friend recently. On reflection, they carry more weight than meets the eye. As is commonly known, SOP stands for Standard Operating Procedure – a very big thing in the civil service and the armed forces. If we go back to the early days of the COVID-19 outbreak, the government...