Quora Answer: What Do You Think of Singapore’s Measures to Deal with the Surge in Covid-19 Cases?

The following is my answer to a Quora question: “What do you make of the Singapore government’s stringent measures in dealing with the recent surge in Covid cases?” 

To date, Singapore has had 254,000 cases of infection, resulting in 667 deaths.  Worldwide, the total number of cases is 258 million, resulting in 5.16 million deaths.  By any measure we look at this, from infections per capita, from actual mortality rates versus expected mortality, mortality percentage, Singapore has done well.  The Singapore government’s handling has worked, and we are opening up sooner than other nations. 

Anyone whining about having no social life in a time of pandemic, when millions have died, should grow up, and disabuse himself of that selfish entitlement complex.  What we have is something unprecedented, which has shut down the global economy.  The impact on healthcare will be felt from decades to come because people infected will likely have chronic issues long after they recovered from the initial infection.  Because of the morphic nature of the virus, and the number of daily transmissions globally, we will continue to see periods of surge, and it will take time before we get this under control.