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The MTF continues to persist with the strategy of containment which consists of partial lock downs, aggressive testing, mandatory quarantine for infected persons, and SHN for returning residents.
Businesses are still badly affected as “1 single hawker” is infected and the whole hawker center is shut down.
I don’t understand why this strategy still persist in October 2021, with 82% (and increasing) of residents in Singapore vaccinated.
My mom along with many other seniors got or are getting their booster vaccination shots and there is about 80,000 seniors who are unvaccinated. (Perhaps, some of them cannot get vaccinations because they do not leave the house? — Bedridden or have medical conditions that prevent this?)
The decisions and actions of the MTF continues to fan the fear. Perhaps, their inability to manage the infections due to their indecisive approach of circuit-breaker/heightened-alert no longer works. It worked in the past because they were lucky and the luck ran out?
In my opinion, there are 2 approaches.
- Continue to fan the fear and go for a 0 infection approach. Full Lock down. No activities without masks outside the house, and wait for the cases of new infection to decline to a manageable state.
