Over a year ago, I posted on how to exit these silly lock downs. Make HCQ, Zinc and vit D available to anyone who thought they were infected as early intervention since early intervention (at viral replication phase) would avoid the inflammation stage which is the actual killer in this disease. Since then we discovered that Ivermectin is far more effective than HCQ. But the point still stood that we treat COVID as an endemic disease like the flu and get on with life. Singapore has finally seen this light
I'd like to think that someone with decision making powers had been reading my posts but I'm not that vain (though I do have traffic from that country).
"A country that has been one of the world’s most successful at combating Covid-19 has announced it will soon fundamentally change how it manages the pandemic.
The city state of Singapore has stated covid will be treated like other endemic diseases such as flu.
There will be no goals of zero transmission. Quarantine will be dumped for travellers and close contact of cases will not have to isolate. It also plans to no longer announce daily case numbers.
But you may need to take tests to head to the shops or go to work.
Senior Singaporean ministers have said it is the “new normal” of “living with covid”."
If it's been so successful then why the change? I think it's that recent outbreak involving "fully vaccinated" people.
"“The bad news is that Covid-19 may never go away. The good news is that it is possible to live normally with it in our midst,” wrote Singapore’s trade Minister Gan Kim Yong, finance minister Lawrence Wong and health minister Ong Ye Kung said in an editorial in the Straits Times this week.
“It means that the virus will continue to mutate, and thereby survive in our community.”"[my underlines]
Which I said over a year ago. If it's that transmissible, then by the time you find a "case" it has spread to a whole lot of other people, most of whom will never show more than a sore throat and hence never seek medical attention.
Time to tell these "Zero-COVID" people to take a long hike off a short plank.