Let me close this thread with a public service message, I approve of and provide some real info (to stop the spread of misinformation).
Hopefully, this will serve to discourage COVID-19 idiots from joining this forum.
1. Very simple message in 1 of 4 official languages — communicated in English in this video — asking our citizens to cooperate in the national effort to test, trace and vaccinate. We have a government that cares and citizens who cooperate.
2. Everyone joining the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) will be vaccinated before their enlistment date, to enable safe conduct of operations and training.
3. Three generations of my family have served in the SAF, including me (30 months) and my son (22 months); followed by 10 years of reserve service. All of my family members who have served, have received vaccine doses mandated by the SAF that are essential (before going overseas exercises or deployments).
4. 18 years on, Singapore as a country has put SARS lessons to the test in the fight against the coronavirus. At the heart of Singapore's response plan is the Disease Outbreak Response System (DORS), a crisis management plan which did not exist in 2003, but was drafted after SARS and refined again in the wake of the swine flu (or H1N1) pandemic in 2009. Under DORS, we know that masking and vaccination will help reduce many preventable deaths, including of the death of Stephen Harmon as active church member in L.A. (who is preaching against vaccination). Hillsong Church, founded in Australia, has congregations around the world. Harmon attended Hillsong in downtown L.A. In his final tweet on Wednesday, Mr Harmon said he had decided to go under intubation.
"Don't know when I'll wake up, please pray," Stephen Harmon wrote.
5. Despite his struggle with the virus, Mr Harmon still said he would reject being jabbed, saying his religious faith would protect him. In Singapore, guidance given under DORS is taken seriously by all religious groups, such that churches, mosques and temples are closed at the appropriate time; and even when it is reopened, masks and temperature screening are mandatory and no church in Singapore is claiming that religious faith alone would protect its members.
As I see it, Stephen Harmon’s prayers were answered by his God — his life and death serves as a powerful testimony of his failure to listen to God. God provided him scientists to give him some guidance, masks to keep the disease from spreading, and ultimately a vaccine — all of which he ignored.
6. With the spread of the Delta variant, nearly 60 major medical organizations in America, including the American Medical Association and the American Nurses Association, called for mandatory vaccination of health care workers. Unlike Singaporeans, Americans don’t trust others or the government enough to get a vaccine jab.
(a) Political division, disinformation, and stupidity made:
(i) a large segment of Americans; and
(ii) a significant minority of Australians, Canadians and the British,
unwilling to listen to facts — including idiots like Stephen Harmon from L.A., Curt Carpenter from Alabama and Olivia Guidry (an Emergency Room Nurse at Ochsner Lafayette General)— choosing not to get vaccinated and dying from Covid-19. While deaths due to stupidity is normal, these three deaths are part of an infection chain in America that harms society at large. Tests in Singapore have shown that the viral load in infected persons who are fully vaccinated falls very rapidly, to a very low level only after 9 days — whereas an unvaccinated person, who is only slightly sick, has to stay in quarantine for at least 21 days. Singapore’s MOH is now discharging fully vaccinated persons from isolation after 14 days from onset of illness with a 7-day leave of absence, so long as their tests show that they are Covid-19 negative or have very low viral loads.
(b) Political division, disinformation, and stupidity has created an environment in which enough people in America, Australia or Britain will NOT change their minds, because to accept the science now is to admit that the favorite information sources of CORVID idiots have been wrong all along.
(c) In contrast to the delays in vaccine roll-out/acceptance, in America or Australia, 66.6% of Singapore’s population (over the age of 12) will be fully vaccinated by 9 Aug 2021. By end Sept 2021, more than 80% of our population (over the age of 12) will be vaccinated, to enable our economy to reopen. MOH has also reduced the dose interval to 4 weeks — that way, 60% of infected can recover in community care facilities in just 14 days (instead of being in acute care for a much longer period). This speeded up 2nd jab will allow more of the population in Singapore to complete their vaccination of two doses sooner. We have a government that cares and citizens who cooperate that is why out of the 64,314 Corvid-19 cases that occurred, we only have 37 deaths.
7. Dr. Vivek Murthy released the
first surgeon general's advisory of his time serving in the Biden administration, describing the "urgent threat" posed by the rise of false information around COVID-19 — one that continues to put "lives at risk" and prolong the pandemic. Murthy says Americans must do their part to fight misinformation.
8. In every country, there are children and elderly out there with cancer with very weak immune systems who cannot afford to have COVID-19 spread to them by a person who is asymptomatic or slightly sick. Sadly for the people who Stephen Harmon infected and his followers, he chose indulge in the sin of pride instead of humility — he failed to have the humility to listen to the medical professionals who had to take risk to care for him on his death bed. Epidemiologists who use mathematical modeling to calculate disease spread have found the following:
One, the initial R0 of COVID-19 was estimated as
between 2.3-2.7 (one infected person is likely to infect 2.3 to 2.7 unaware people) — which made pandemic spread of the virus difficult to control.
Two, the Delta variant is much more highly infectious with a R0 of between of 5-8 (one infected person is likely to infect 5 to 8 unaware people). This means that Stephen Harmon’s COVID-19 mis-information is causing more harm to a greater number of people, because the virus has mutated to be more infectious. The maths for arithmetic progression at a R0 of 2.5 calculated against 5, in 6 rounds of progression is 610 vs 78,125 (of infected people).
