Singapore's response to the pandemic was swift, measured and effective. Our response resembles a bunch of apes flinging poo at each other. Yeah they're the sucky ones....

Singapore has a higher case rate per million than the US does. Take New York City out of the picture and it isn’t even close. And with the notable exception of Germany, the US has significantly lower case and death rates than most other western countries. So if our response resembles a bunch of apes flinging poo at each other, I wonder how you’d describe most of the countries in the EU? Funny thing about Germany...when I go there, I can leave my hotel, buy a beer and dinner and enjoy the outside air. When I’m in Singapore, I am locked into my airport hotel room and have a guard outside my door. I guess that kind of lifestyle suits you. Personally, I prefer my freedom. As my state opens up, its case count is actually dropping. In fact, with roughly the same population as Singapore, my state is averaging about half of Singapore’s daily new cases, and we aren’t arresting people for leaving their hotel rooms. Again, to each his own.

He makes a great point - why can’t a land mass approximately 1,367,185% larger than the island nation of Singapore handle this the same way? Or, for that matter, have the same reliable high speed Internet?

And not to mention the Bill of Rights. I enjoy having a limited government. (although every day seems like a fight to protect our RIGHTS under them)

You guys are something else.

USA Death Rate per million: 258
Singapore death rate per million: 4

Numbers don't lie. https://www.worldometers.info/corona...=homeAdvegas1?

Our case rate per million is similar to theirs. Probably because they test more.

Did someone up there just suggest that the Bill of Rights applies in Singapore?

I think some of you Constitutional Scholars slept through Civics class.

How about the personal responsibility to follow some simple rules and not possibly infecting others (although every day seems like all you hear are my rights my rights my rights...)

If only the US was a tiny little island nation with one major international airport as an access port. Although Taiwan’s .3 deaths per million rate makes Singapore look terrible. And I was just in Australia and they have the same death rate as Singapore but I was allowed to leave my hotel room there without getting arrested. And on Friday they are opening up restaurants for inside dining. Again, that whole island thing seems to be really helpful. Singapore won’t be loosening up anytime soon because despite being a tiny island nation like Taiwan, things actually got worse there over the last few weeks. So they are doubling down on restrictions while a good part of the rest of the world opens up.
Don’t get me wrong. I love Singapore. And I’m a rule follower. But I don’t expect to see anything more than a view of a closed airport for anytime in the near future on my layovers there.

Oh I think the hotel quarantines will be part of this job for years.

Got to wonder if it will speed up retirements at all. This is certainly not fun anymore......

On that point we agree 100%