“It was as if the entire city had fallen so completely into the habit of regarding the laborers as some other kind of person that the basic fact of our corporeal interconnectedness never occurred to anybody.” Great read by @Megankstack: https://t.co/qs6tUBQwYe
Singapore is 27th globally in infections, but 102nd in deaths (only 22).
Was it hard to figure out with a rule change the police would focus on that rule? Yes, masks needed not just jogging but on way in and out of building. I wear mine in the elevator (so don't kill my elderly neighbors, no matter what the gov says). I yell at the 3 idiots chatting in the tram with masks off. I tut-tut at the guys too much enjoying the relaxation of rules and getting too damn close for my comfort. I've lived in Asia, Europe, US - don't feel a need to blame having public health rules on the government outside hlthe US - I'd have problems in UK or Sweden or Brazil. Just wear your goddamn mask. As for workers' dorms and factories - sad but unsurprising. But only 22 have died after 3 months - so obviously Singapore cares much more about guest workers than we do meat packers, veterans, old folks, health workers, or Mexican illegals at the border.
Unbelievable drone shots of thousands of freshly dug graves in Sao Paulo. @npwcnn is there and reports the city is expecting the peak in 1-2 weeks. Today they saw funerals about every 10 minutes. pic.twitter.com/YGioWRm2I9
I do not know this to be true with certainty,whether there are any restrictions, but she does cite the flight logs and I wouldn't be surprised if there aren't any special ones for travelers coming from Brazil:
Trump has not budged when it comes to stopping flights from Brazil, now the second-leading country in the world for #coronavirus cases. So many people are dying of COVID in Brazil, there aren't enough gravediggers to bury the dead https://t.co/7DZatakDOl
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Uggh, a lot of "Karen's" in the comments.
Singapore is 27th globally in infections, but 102nd in deaths (only 22).
Was it hard to figure out with a rule change the police would focus on that rule? Yes, masks needed not just jogging but on way in and out of building. I wear mine in the elevator (so don't kill my elderly neighbors, no matter what the gov says). I yell at the 3 idiots chatting in the tram with masks off. I tut-tut at the guys too much enjoying the relaxation of rules and getting too damn close for my comfort. I've lived in Asia, Europe, US - don't feel a need to blame having public health rules on the government outside hlthe US - I'd have problems in UK or Sweden or Brazil. Just wear your goddamn mask. As for workers' dorms and factories - sad but unsurprising. But only 22 have died after 3 months - so obviously Singapore cares much more about guest workers than we do meat packers, veterans, old folks, health workers, or Mexican illegals at the border.
by PeraclesPlease on Thu, 05/21/2020 - 9:11am
Meanwhile in Brazil:
by artappraiser on Thu, 05/21/2020 - 6:12pm
Andy Slavitt thread on the very dangerous situation in Brazil, starts here
by artappraiser on Fri, 05/22/2020 - 1:09am
I do not know this to be true with certainty,whether there are any restrictions, but she does cite the flight logs and I wouldn't be surprised if there aren't any special ones for travelers coming from Brazil:
by artappraiser on Sat, 05/23/2020 - 7:32pm