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Singapore's transport ministry has to increase the frequency of the MRT trains back to what it was, at least for peak hour periods, as well as extend the peak hour periods to cater for the crowd. This is not the time to save costs. The government cannot expect people to adhere strictly to social distancing rules, when it does... 

And I am wondering if what Adam (below) says is true. How do we know that the workers are practising social distancing in the dorms now, or that this is even possible? Thousands of workers are locked in together. Normally, we would call this a disaster in the making. What is different now?   Andrew Loh      Read More →

The ministerial task force made a bad judgment. In early April, they panicked and decided to introduce the circuit breaker. They closed down most workplaces (except for the essential ones), food outlets and schools and ordered the people to stay at home for four weeks. Why was this a bad judgment? The ministers panicked when...