REACH - 113. Polling Day - how we emerge stronger (SK)
08 July 2020 (3pm - 10pm)


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[2:41 pm, 08/07/2020] : Dear Contributors,
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[2:55 pm, 08/07/2020] +: Dear contributors,
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REACH
[3:00 pm, 08/07/2020] +: 📢 Topic 📢
Polling Day on 10 July
This Friday (10 July), about 2.65 million Singaporeans are expected to vote.
As this General Election is held amid the COVID-19 outbreak, the Election Department (ELD) will be implementing safety measures during Polling Day. These measures include dedicated time-bands for seniors to vote, setting up more polling stations and having voters wear gloves before entering polling booths.
Before setting off to vote, voters can also check the queue situation using the http://VoteQ.gowhere.gov.sg website.
👉 For more information, read: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid-19-safety-measures-polling-day-general-election-12815876

REACH
[3:50 pm, 08/07/2020] +: Singapore Together Emerging Stronger Conversations – Now Open for Early Registration.
What are your aspirations, as we forge ahead in our recovery and rebuilding journey? Share your views in the series of Emerging Stronger Conversations – now open for early registration!
👉 https://go.gov.sg/ESconversations
You can also share your reflections and experiences of finding hope, resilience, and kindness amid the challenges faced during COVID-19 here: 👉 https://www.singaporetogether.gov.sg/reflect/.
[3:56 pm, 08/07/2020] +: [Sent by Gov.sg – 8 Jul]

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[4:34 pm, 08/07/2020] ☸️  Danny 心:
Singapore Together Emerging Stronger Conversations

What should Singapore do to emerge stronger?

(Note :- This is nothing to do with the election campaign that is currently going on.
The above message is what Singapore should do to make Singapore come Togther as One Unity so that we can overcome a major crisis to come our Stronger.

(i) Singapore, albeit the World are experience once a lifetime crisis - that threaten human lives (with virus pandemic) that trigger a Worldwide deep Economic Recession that will threaten our lives, our jobs, our Economy, our supply chain and our future.

(ii) The current broadening and widening of geopolitical tension between 2 Superpowers that will threaten our Economy, political affiliation, our supply lines, our trade, our investment and our lives.

(iv) Then what should we do to ensure how Singapore can come together to emerge stronger?

(1) Strong Leadership will be required to chart the direction for us to navigate rough sea, tidal wave - to emerge safe and sound into calmer water.

(2) Strong Leadership to be able to find our niche and position in the geopolitical tussle - to stand neutral and yet able to hold our own to survive and thrive in the increasingly tense global world.

(3) Strong Leadership to be able to forge bilateral trade, multi-lateral trade, attract business, investment, finance to come to Singapore so that high-value added jobs can be created for Singapore.

(4) Strong Leadership and not splinter, fractitious groups that make us weak (by crippling bright and brilliant decision-makers) -- pulling in all different directions -- but not able to help us to converge into a common directions and common goals - to help us to tackle the deep Economic crisis and geopolitical tension.

(5) Strong Leadership that will help us to R&D, find vaccines, treatment, test kits, medicine manufacturing capability, hospital facilites etc to ensure that Singaporeans and residents have the best medical care to be able to keep the covid-19 threat at bay and when vaccines and treatment come - Singaporeans and residents have the best medical protection to curb and stop the covid-19 once and for all.

(6) Strong Leadership that will help to create jobs, keep business alive and thrive and keep our Economy survive, thrive and vibrant.

To conclude, the above message is nothing to do with the Election campaign nor to prop up any parties in the Election --- but the necessary ingredients that Singapore need to make Singapore Together possible to unite us and help us to emerge Stronger from the virus and economic crisis.

Blue and White Flag Guy
[4:35 pm, 08/07/2020] +: Aiya you want talk then just register lah aiyo

[4:51 pm, 08/07/2020] ☸️  Danny 心:
Singapore has no natural resources.

Singapore only has strong human talents in the form of :-

1. Good Leadership
2. Talented work force.

To emerge stronger, the 2 ingredients must bond and work together.

Failing which, to exploit our most precious ingredients of success, Singapore will fail.

Droll
[4:53 pm, 08/07/2020] +: It is interesting that you point out #1 and #2. In behavioural profiling, Singapore tends to be heavily biased towards people followers rather than leaders. It could be a result of our upbringing, culture, and education.
[4:53 pm, 08/07/2020] +: I mean Singaporean typically end up with a behaviour profile of that type of person.

[5:32 pm, 08/07/2020] ☸️  Danny 心:
What will be the greatest threat to Singapore - that will cause Singapore to fail?

(1) We fail to exploit our greatest treasure - by crippling our very own human talents :-
a. We crippled our Leadership, our leadership are fractitious, splinter with diverse goals, mission and objectives --- always involve in bickerings instead of working together, 1 step forward 2 step backwards, rise one day fall another day, need to scramble to form "multi-coalition" with all size, forms and shape --- to the detriment of leading Singapore forward.

A fractitious leadership will fail to unite and mobilise our talented workforce in a constructive way to bring us out from troubled water - eg. to curb and tackle the current virus pandemic, to emerge and tackle the economic recession effectively and to make ourselves viable and feasible in the growing hostile geopolitical situation.

We can see all these happenings around us, around the World - and if such scenarios ever happen to Singapore - Singapore will not emerge stronger and will fail - because we don't have strategic depth, natural resources and large hinterland.

Once our direction is wrong - we will fall headlong --- and it will be very difficult for us to recover and come back to where we are --- in a moment of folly.

This has nothing to do with the election campaign - this is an inherent truth, a conventional wisdom.

Even a big Superpower will plummet if the above scenario happen.
What will anyone think whether Singapore can survive such internal crisis --- never mind the big external crisis that hit us - virus that threaten our lives, economic crisis that threaten our jobs.

It will be a triple whammy for Singapore - if the above scenario happen.

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[7:31 pm, 08/07/2020] ☸️  Danny 心:
'At war time speed', China leads COVID-19 vaccine race
Sangmi Cha and Miyoung Kim
https://sg.yahoo.com/news/war-time-speed-china-leads-121755065.html

Rama
[7:33 pm, 08/07/2020] +: For which strain!?

[7:37 pm, 08/07/2020] ☸️  Danny 心:
Don't know?
But China, UAE, Canada, Brazil, Indonesia and Mexico are on trial.

Rama
[7:50 pm, 08/07/2020] +: Wishing all god's speed!

[7:53 pm, 08/07/2020] ☸️  Danny 心:
If global politics are throw out of the window, vaccines development can be much faster.
Vaccines can have trial in more countries.
Unfortunately there are no global leadership and global wisdom.

Rama
[7:54 pm, 08/07/2020] +: Agree

CQ
[7:59 pm, 08/07/2020] +: Agree. WHO was supposed to be playing the role of global leadership in pandemic control strategies and carrying the whip to penalise those countries which are not compliant. Unfortunately they're not doing their jobs, so I don't entirely blame the US for pulling out of WHO, although I don't agree with their reasons and timing for doing so.

Blue and White Flag Guy
[8:01 pm, 08/07/2020] +: WHO thinks the world will be here in 5 more years? Keechiu! 😂

[8:03 pm, 08/07/2020] ☸️  Danny 心:
When I refer to global leadership and global wisdom - I refer not only to WHO but also political leaders - that lack collaboration, cooperation --- where i only see finger-pointing, blaming, extracting political benefits out of the crisis.

CQ
[8:06 pm, 08/07/2020] +: Agree, but every country's leaders will be hardpressed to advocate for their own people's welfare first. It takes a neutral body like WHO to be the central body coordinating all research and vaccine development efforts, and to smack those world leaders who try to be selfish and jeopardise everyone else.

[8:11 pm, 08/07/2020] ☸️  Danny 心:
WHO can't smack any political leaders who refused to cooperate because WHO fundings come from each Country's contribution.

If one is the paymaster and lack global perspective and global wisdom to lead from the front or at least set the environment for collaboration and cooperation, world bodies will malfunction.

Eg UN have 5 permanent members.
If the 5 members leadership fail to cooperate, UN will fail.

[8:18 pm, 08/07/2020] ☸️  Danny 心:
In fact, all global initiatives fall apart - WHO, WTO, IMF, Paris Climate Agreement, Iran nuclear deal, TPP, Middle East Peace Initiative etc --- any World Bodies and Initiatives or Agreement succeeded in the last 4 years?

The lack of Global Leadership and global wisdom are sorely missing - and global cooperation fall waywards.

And this happen in the midst of Global virus pandemic threat, Global trade war, Disruption of Global Supply Chain and now Global recession ----- multiple whammy of crisis in an unprecedented proportion.

Hopefully, we don't have to deal with a self-induced internal crisis in the midst of such external global challenges.

CQ
[8:19 pm, 08/07/2020] +: Whether it's UN or WHO, these international organisations are established by treaties which means the participating countries are contractually bound to observe the terms. As with all contracts, if 1 party unilaterally acts to the detriment of the other members, there has to be consequences. The only question is whether there are relevant terms allowing whether the relevant international organisation or for a collective number of members to enforce against the errant member country.

[8:20 pm, 08/07/2020] ☸️  Danny 心:
Well can try that to a superpower.
It doesn't work isn't it?

CQ
[8:30 pm, 08/07/2020] +: IMHO, a superpower is a status built on the regard and respect that other member countries accord to this country. If a country has been conducting itself in a manner where no respect can continue to be accorded, it can't be that they continue to enjoy that special respect, have the last word in everything, and bulldoze their way through. There is strength in numbers. Even if that one superpower can unilaterally impose economic sanctions, what good are those sanctions if half the world falls into that list?

[8:33 pm, 08/07/2020] ☸️  Danny 心:
Well, right to say.
Difficult to do.

CQ
[8:36 pm, 08/07/2020] +: I know... That's why I can only muse here. 🙂

[8:46 pm, 08/07/2020] ☸️  Danny 心:
Human Heart initiate.
Human mind makes the World work.
If Human Heart is not at the right place - nothing works.
大地万法唯心照。
有因缘生，有因缘灭。

Anne
[8:47 pm, 08/07/2020] +: Hmm... so, to solve global issues we need a New World Order huh? A global government with all national governments subject to it.

[8:51 pm, 08/07/2020] ☸️  Danny 心:
Before we solve the global issues, we have to solve our internal issues first.
This is something that we can control.

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