New Zealand has four alert levels for their lockdown measures. They are explained here.
Singapore has a convoluted system (which is the hallmark of PAP and LHL).
We started with Dorscon Orange, but never progress to Dorscon Red.
We change to Circuit Breaker, then moved to Phase 2 and Phase 3 and changed to Heightened Alert.
I lost track. Did we have Heightened Alert Phase 2, Phase 2A or whatever?
I prefer a straight forward system, such as the one adopted by New Zealand.
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My elderly father went out one day and he did not realise that they had a change to only takeaways. He said that he had a fainting spell so he went to a 7-11 store, bought a drink and went to hide behind a tree to drink. My elderly mother check-in little token had run out of battery one day and she could only go in certain areas. Convoluted or not only the people will understand.
New Zealand has lesser people in a large geographical area.
The people here live in compact spaces at home and out.
As Einstein said, things should be made 'as simple and as few as possible.'
One safety manager for Apollo 8 remarked that the spacecraft had 5 million parts and even if it could function with a reliability of 99 per cent, there was an expectation of 5 million defects?
If you were born in 1900
When you’re 14, World War I begins and ends when you’re 18 with 22 million dead.
Soon after a global pandemic, the Spanish Flu, appears, killing 50 million people. And you’re alive and 20 years old.
When you’re 29 you survive the global economic crisis that started with the collapse of the New York Stock Exchange, causing inflation, unemployment and famine.
When you’re 33 years old the nazis come to power.
When you’re 39, World War II begins and ends when you’re 45 years old with a 60 million dead. In the Holocaust 6 million Jews die.
When you’re 52, the Korean War begins.
When you’re 64, the Vietnam War begins and ends when you’re 75.
A child born in 1985 thinks his grandparents have no idea how difficult life is, but they have survived several wars and catastrophes.
Today we have all the comforts in a new world, amid a new pandemic. But we complain because we need to wear masks. We complain because we must stay confined to our homes where we have food, electricity, running water, wifi, even Netflix! None of that existed back in the day. But humanity survived those circumstances and never lost their joy of living.
A small change in our perspective can generate miracles. We should be thankful that we are alive. We should do everything we need to do to protect and help each other.
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