uh, source on school closure once a week is from the Straits Times---
https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...ing-once-a-week-from-april-as-schools-step-up
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Does the country have to be shutdown? Canadian stats, USA might be the same
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uh, source on school closure once a week is from the Straits Times---
https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...ing-once-a-week-from-april-as-schools-step-up
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/C...apore-has-social-distancing-down-to-a-science
Perhaps your sources are the problem, this article is from today...
It's funny how some self declared medical and economist experts on an anonymous forum seem to know a whole lot more than the smartest and wisest in their trained field of medicine and virology. Of course do those self declared experts have all the visibility and economic numbers at hand and they can put an exact fundamental value at the economic cost when even walls street has no clue whatsoever how to value the economic fallout.
Funny bunch in this site to say the least.
Funny bunch in this site to say the least.
Well then they are wrong, I have relatives in Singapore. Every single child is at home and those whose families afford their kids international school are being schooled online in order to avoid having to repeat the entire school year as was decided for HK local schools.
Singapore and Hongkong have been the most extreme countries where sheer panic set in early on which now turns out to be a blessing as people isolated very early on.
Singapore and Hongkong have been the most extreme countries where sheer panic set in early on which now turns out to be a blessing as people isolated very early on.
uh, source on school closure once a week is from the Straight Times---
https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...ing-once-a-week-from-april-as-schools-step-up
Well, believe whatever you like, I know for a fact that the information in your cited article is factually incorrect as of the shown date, March 27. This might have been true on January 27 though.
This is an advisory note of AIS dating back to late January, a date most Americans have never heard of Corona.
https://www.ais.com.sg/health-advisory/
This is an advisory note of AIS dating back to late January, a date most Americans have never heard of Corona.
https://www.ais.com.sg/health-advisory/
Ok, I´ll trust FrankinLa who is well introduced within his family members over the Nikkei Asian Review and the Straight times, sure seems like a more authoritative source.
Nikkei article is from March 30th, and while it announces new restrictions about to start, which should calm the rithm of the city and make it feel pretty far from normal, that is not the complete lockdown you mention, maybe you just don´t know what a lockdown is. I live in Madrid, Spain, at the moment and got a clear idea. Singapore even with the new restrictions sounds like party time comparatively.
You are correct in that the Singapore health ministry believes that infection risk at schools is lower than work related infection risk. But many schools in Singapore have taken more drastic steps than what the ministry mandated and that very early on. But happy to ask my relatives what measures other than their own kids' schools have taken since January.
And I am absolutely sure that Madrid has taken stricter measures but then the number of cases between Spain and Singapore hardly compares. Apples and oranges.
And I am absolutely sure that Madrid has taken stricter measures but then the number of cases between Spain and Singapore hardly compares. Apples and oranges.
Nikkei article is from March 30th, and while it announces new restrictions about to start, which should calm the rithm of the city, that is not the complete lockdown you mention, maybe you just don´t know what a lockdown is. I live in Madrid at the moment and got a clear idea. Singapore even with the new restrictions sounds like party time comparatively.
Wkids international school are being schooled online in order to avoid having to repeat the entire school year as was decided for HK local schools.
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Hhmmm, care to post a reputable link that supports your claim ? HK students have been studying online for a while now, not only I saw short clips of my wife´s nephew studying online, but that´s what google also comes up with. Can´t find news about the kids having to retake the entire school year.
. South Korea so far dealt successfully with the virus with limited restrictions, despite being one of the most exposed to it.
SK didn't need to implement very strict restrictions because their people are not knee-jerk reaction anti-science/anti-government nut jobs like 40% of the U.S. population. They trust their government, they trust the scientists, they tested broadly early on, and people were self-disciplined.
They also deployed an amazing surveillance apparatus through which (via cell phone records, security cameras, etc.) they could track infected people and pinpoint who they were in contact with.