Extended Circuit Breaker

Instead of 4 May, it is now 1 June when the Circuit Breaker hopefully to end. Instead of 4 weeks, it is now 8 weeks to stop Covid-19 coronavirus from taking a hold on Singapore.

I was not expecting an extension to the initial Circuit Breaker Stay-at-Home measures. I was not expecting this announcement of extension to come after just 2 weeks into the first Circuit Breaker period.

As I said before, the situation with Covid-19 is so fluid and unpredictable. Measures on social distancing get tighter, like bringing your NRIC when you visit 4 popular and crowded wet markets. Those people with NRIC number ending with odd last digit number can only visit the market on odd dates of the month and ditto for even number NRIC.

To say that I am not disappointed with the turn of events is telling a lie. This Covid-19 coronavirus has outwitted the human race. Weaknesses in human behaviours are exploited convincingly by this very contagious virus. It also exposes the crowded living conditions of current dormitories of our foreign workers. Majority of confirmed cases are now from workers staying in dormitories. Soon Singapore (10,141 cases) will be overtaking South Korea (10,694) cases in the number of confirmed cases.

We simply have to soldier on and live each day as it comes. Do not look at the future date of the end. It is 6 weeks away!