Situation Singapore

Early on in the pandemic, I suggested that it may be the case that COVID would be like the flu in that it would be endemic and any vaccine would be like a "flu shot" because the virus would mutate and 'escape" vaccines and thus "new" vaccines would be needed probably on a yearly basis.

Of course the approved experts said this was nonsense and that the vaccines, which have no long term history, were unquestionably both safe and effective. How you know this without long term study defies logic, but that was the message.  To add insult to injury people had and have been lead to believe that the vaccine prevented people from getting infected. I had to inform people that it doesn't work like that. You can and will still get infected. The virus will replicate. What the vaccine is supposed to do is prime the immune system to recognize the virus (via the S1 protein) and thus attack the virus (and infected cells) early on before the person gets sick.  Hence, the sole purpose of the vaccine would be to prevent illness, NOT infection.

So while the CDC does PR rather than actual science people are finding out what I knew already. Enter Singapore. 

Singapore has one of the strictest policies around COVID. Asiaphiles in America have waxed poetic about it (and other countries) as an example of how America should be (yet they don't leave to live there). Anyway this is an interesting case:

I remember when people claimed that various countries had reached "Zero COVID" and they were done. 

"The B1617 variant’s relentless spread was highlighted in the Changi Airport cluster, which ballooned to more than 100 cases in less than a month to become Singapore’s largest active COVID-19 cluster. The cluster was closed on Friday after going through two incubation periods without any new cases.

The cluster’s index case, Case 62873, is an 88-year-old cleaner who worked at Changi Airport Terminal 3. He tested positive on May 5 despite being fully vaccinated."

"Despite being fully vaccinated"

You should prepare to see this line a lot.

"While the CEO said the airport had implemented “many layers of stringent safety protocols”, he acknowledged that “something changed” with the B1617 variant. 

“It penetrated our defences and caused a community outbreak,” he conceded." 

"stringent safety protocols" are what I have been calling "safety theatre". People act as if viruses only hang out in gyms and rooms. Like it respects curfews. As if pieces of cloth with huge holes (relative to virus size) are effective. Humans like to think that they are 'doing something" or that they have to "do something" when sometimes there is nothing to be done.

"Another large cluster linked to the B1617 variant was the one that spread in Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH). This remains Singapore’s only COVID-19 cluster in a hospital. The cluster is now closed.

A fully vaccinated 46-year-old female nurse at TTSH, or case 62541, became the first case linked to the cluster after she tested positive on Apr 27.

By May 4, just a week after the first case was discovered, the cluster had swelled to 40 cases, MOH figures showed." 

"a fully vaccinated nurse...became the first case..." Also known as: "despite being fully vaccinated" 

"“It would seem that the higher transmissibility of the B16172 variant did mean that it was able to evade the measures that were in place in Singapore,” she said."

Because the measures were never effective to begin with. It was a case of what is referred to as the gamblers fallacy.  I pointed out months ago that since these coronaviruses are so common in that part of the world, much of the population has a level of prior immunity that is reactive to COVID 19.  This is why their numbers are so low. Note that prior immunity doesn't mean, nobody gets sick or even die. it just means you don't have the levels of illness and deaths as those who's systems have no "knowledge" of this disease ie:Native Americans and influenza.

"“The few mutations that give a virus an advantage, such as being able to bind to the host cell better, tend to (allow the variant to) survive and eventually replace the other strains of the virus,” Dr Paul Tambyah, president of the Asia Pacific Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infection, told CNA."

Which is why people like myself have said that rather than try to avoid 'infection" which is nigh impossible, what you do is make it difficult for the virus to cause illness. This can be done by making sure your vitamin D levels are nice and high. That you take Zinc on a regular basis. That you pair Zinc with an ionophore like Quercetin. That if you get "The News" you get some Ivermectin which interferes with the S1 protein's ability to bind with the human cell. 

"“It's not just wearing a cloth mask, but wear one with high filtration capability – a surgical mask or one of those with the filter inserts,” he said. “That is important because of the latest evidence about the nature of the various strains, how transmissible they are and the fact that the spread can happen through aerosolised particles.”" 

So yeah, those cloth masks that certain places require for entry? Scientists know that they are garbage and yet these politicians keep telling you to wear them "to be safe".

"In the Delta variant clusters, Prof Leo has seen vaccinated cases with family members who have tested positive. This means it could still be possible for vaccinated people to spread the virus.

“Genetic sequencing monitoring by the National Public Health Laboratory is still ongoing and we cannot rule out that a vaccinated patient is capable of transmitting the infection,” she said." 

Oh.

"If evidence shows that the variants could “escape” the immune response induced by the vaccine or after natural infection, NTU’s Prof Rénia said a booster injection of a new vaccine with proteins from the variants could be necessary." 

Booster you say? 

"Other high-risk places are doing more too. The Singapore General Hospital said staff working in wards are required to wear N95 respirators, rather than surgical masks, for “a better mask fit”." 

N95 is not a mask. It is a respirator. 

"“As long as there are viruses circulating, there is an opportunity for variants to develop and we need to remove that opportunity.”" 

Viruses will always be circulating. They do realize this right?

"“After a few years, the virus will probably become like one of the common cold viruses widespread but deadly only to the elderly and vulnerable,” he added. " 

It already IS like the common cold. The problem is that the "experts" refuse to acknowledge this so we are being subject to their control freakery. 

Source:  https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-delta-variant-virus-vaccine-moh-15041706