This means that it may be impossible to contain. We may have to simply accept that most of the world’s population will be infected. It will be a personal tragedy for those who lose loved ones, but it will not affect the world’s economy much, because we won’t lose any significant percentage of our workforce.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMu2SHuk7NQ

IIRC about 15 years ago a young American(?) teen was caned for violating one of the Singapore laws.

It was shoplifting in 1994 (the internet is forever).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_P._Fay

https://nypost.com/2020/03/06/singapore-threatens-jail-fines-for-coronavirus-patients-who-lie-to-investigators/

Health and government officials in Singapore are threatening coronavirus patients with thousands of dollars in fines — or even jail time — if they lie to investigators about their travel history.

At least 117 cases of Covid-19 have been diagnosed in Singapore as of Friday , according to the Singapore Ministry of Health, and officials are expected to monitor every step taken by those patients.
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The city-state has also begun stripping people “of their permanent-resident status and revoking foreigners’ work passes over virus-related infractions,” according to the Wall Street Journal.

Singapore is serious about a lot of things we blithely disregard in America.
You might say they take the “broken windows policy” to the max.
https://www.goabroad.com/articles/study-abroad/singapore-laws-to-know-before-you-go

Answer from Wikipedia: “Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign city-state and island country located in maritime Southeast Asia.”

Memory is a selective and not entirely reliable human faculty. 😉

Point taken, but just in case my last comment didn’t make it clear, I’m fed up with the whole lot, even if there are a swarm of individuals mixed in that I still respect.

Where did that proverbial buck stop, anyway?

Apparently, anywhere except with who was preezy on 9/11.

I don’t think I been around here long enough to pick up on MBunge hobby horse, but this one is mine.

I am thoroughly, viscerally tired of the endless stream of excuses from our supposed betters, such as every member of the Bush family, Condi Rice, John Yoo, the facility of the Hoover Institution, the GOP establishment, and myriad others.

They’re a shambling miserable menagerie of incompetent failures, yet they are never held accountable for their relentless idiocy.

Not only was George Bush president on 9/11, thereby earning some considerable responsibility for the event, he subsequently never ended the policies that made it possible nor did he hold to account the bureaucrats directly responsible for failing to stop it. In fact he appointed at least one of them- Jamie Gorelick- to the 9/11 commission. Bush followed this up with a multi-trillion dollar foreign aid expedition to Iraq and then a catastrophic economic collapse. While not busy with that, he watched tens of thousands of factories depart the United States- including the last one to make penicillin, in 2004- without objection, or even comment. Politically, Bush was such a numb incompetent that he almost lost to John Kerry, traitor, and a traitor lately busy attempting to wreck US policy against the murderous dictatorship of Iran. In fact, I believe Bush would have lost in 2004 except the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth shut Kerry up for about 40 days during the campaign, but enough.

I will note, however, that recalling what John Yoo has written previously about presidential power I was mildly surprised to see he had “grave concerns” about Trump. So I looked him up on Amazon and he’s writing a new book- Defender in Chief: Donald Trump’s Fight for Presidential Power.

There’s that at least. Good for him.

And of course Condoleeza Rice is cut from the same cloth as Valerie Jarret and Samantha Power.

IOW MBunge has found his hobby horse again, back in the saddle he is.