On a personal basis, September has been very kind to me. However, I'm extremely disappointed at the Multi Ministry Task Force's unforgivable blunder which has lead to a sudden increase of COVID-19 case numbers in Singapore. Hence... "scrappy". I'm extremely flustered that despite their simulation showing that cases could hit 2000 a day, the task force did not put any restrictions to slow the spread when the number of daily cases was still quite low. Instead, they tried to ramp up handling capabilities. Did they not learn from Israel's experience? We will go endemic, yes, that's an eventuality. But going endemic right now, is still too early. What about the over 60s with co-morbidities who have yet to get their booster shots? What about children under 12 who cannot be vaccinated yet? Not only the over 60s, even normal adults need booster shots too, to avoid vaccine breakthrough infections! The task force has made a wrong judgement on the timing to open up and we are now paying a heavy price with restricted movements, daily reported deaths, messed up school exam schedules and businesses that suffer from spontaneous restrictions or even closures when infections hit one of their own. At the same time, I can't help but worry for the kids who have yet to get their vaccines. While so far there has been no reported deaths of children under 12 from COVID-19 in Singapore, I prefer to minimise the kids' risks of contracting COVID-19 as much as possible. As I'm writing this entry now, the number of COVID-19 cases for children under 12 has hit 1266 just in September alone while in the past 7 days the number of cases in this age group is 677.
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