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Insane ministers

I made the following post - The ministers made a bad judgment when they start the circuit breaker. They are insane for extending it. Why do I say this? At the start of the corona virus epidemic in China, PM Lee said that the fatality rate of the virus was 0.2% among the infected people. This was twice the rate of the common...

Singaporeans in retirement expect their families or children to care for them

A survey by St Jame's Place Wealth Management Asia (SJP Asia) found that 46% of Singaporeans forecast that they will not have enough money to sustain the lifestyle that they wish in retirement and they expect their families/ children to care for them. I am not surprised at all. To begin, if retirees' expectations of life in...

The Price You Pay When You Don’t Lockdown And Try To Keep The Economy Open

Boris Johnson’s government tried the herd immunity strategy in the UK for 1 week and backed off. New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Arden slammed the idea of herd immunity and imposed possibly one of the toughest lockdowns in the world early on. Today, New Zealand is effectively Covid free and is lauded as the country...