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By end December, checking in with the TraceTogether app or token will be mandatory. However, before the 2020 election, Dr Balakrishnan said “When you’re controlling a pandemic like this, there are many aspects of it you cannot legislate. You can have rules, you can pass laws, you can enforce it. The majority will comply with both the spirit and the letter of the law. And unfortunately, a minority sometimes will try to find loopholes.”
“I’m going to do my best to try to push the participation rates up without having to go down the mandatory route.”
So what happened? Is this because they won the election?
Was Dr. Balakrishnan wrong when he said that it would not be mandatory? If so, can he admit mistake?
When people are concerned with their privacy, so much that they had an online petition, why did the government still continue to push for this?
Was there any public consulting done, and how is this token better than the safeentry check-ins which are happening now?
I am totally supportive of monitoring anyone entering the country who may be infected, and we should make sure that we track people who are on SHN, but why is there a need to track everyone? Isn’t this a big waste of public funds?
