Freedom SG

  This is the Singapore government's protocol on COVID. As you can see, if you caught the virus or found to be a close contact, a hell lot of trouble is waiting for you. Recently, there are few covid cases in my hall, which led to tightened restrictions like no dine-in. All these troubles can be avoided if we choose not to be transparent. Self-test or ART test is the government's main way of identifying covid cases. They are required on a periodic basis by many companies or schools and also required to attend events. Close contacts are identified either by self declaration or Trace Together gadgets which uses Bluetooth to capture information about another person if you stayed close to him for too long. The government can also use Trace Together to search for all the people who attended an event when a case is confirmed in that event. All these leaves me with one question, why do people need to be honest with their Covid status when there might be a hell lot of trouble waiting f

 When COVID 19 hit, we had been on restrictions for over 2 years. Our freedom is gone and a lot of events we can participate in stopped. "Apologies, this event is cancelled due to COVID 19". The constant tightening and loosening of restrictions just for a few pathetic lives are making people sick. Life is boring and meaningless, I am a NUS student and because of COVID, many of my lessons have been forced online. I find it very hard to make friends, which defeats the purpose of student life. University is a time for youths to build long lasting friendships and all these have been robbed away without compensations just to prevent the disease from spreading and save a few worthless lives. Honestly, when youths caught the virus nothing serious should happen. I will give a brief introduction of what COVID 19 is. Its basically a flu like disease with a mortality rate of less than 1%. In Singapore only 0.26% of the infected died. Over 90% of the infected are asymptomatic or have mil