Guys. I really don't know how else to remind you to stay home and stop meeting people you don't live with. It's not about meeting multiple small groups of people at different times of the week and it being "okay" because it's less than 10 people.
In case you haven't noticed, the curve has been exponentially rising in Singapore. And these are not just imported cases. The number of unlinked local cases are growing each day. Just because we're not officially locked down doesn't mean you can flirt with the guidelines. It just means that the government has considered that locking down will bring the economy into an even quicker freefall without solving the problem of rate of infection, among other delicate repercussions that I won't go into here because if you're woke enough, dozens of other people have already written about it and made their pleas to ask you to stay home.
Just go read about what happened when India suddenly locked down over night. Or the people stories coming out from Malaysia of who suffers on the fringes when lockdown happens.
Those of us who are privileged middle and upper class who have the option of multiple comforts should we be forced to stay home really need to remember that this is not about us.
Of course no one believes they are going to be the one to start a cluster. Do you think the principal of that particular sparkletots preschool went to work thinking she was going to be part of a cluster of 26 positive cases? And what makes you think she was solely responsible? What if she was infected by a family member but those cases were only discovered after her?
Just because you don't think it will happen to you doesn't mean you get to be socially irresponsible.
We are believers, yes. We receive and stand on the word of God and His promise of protection, yes. But it doesn't give us the right to be irresponsible and dishonoring of government regulations in a time such a this. Like I said, "my gathering was less than 10 people" is not respecting the rule but flirting with the rule.
Please think of the parents whose 5 year old needed to get tested for Covid-19 because she had pneumonia, the breastfeeding mom who has to be separated from her child because either of them tests positive or simply because of quarantine, the health care workers who also have family and are so afraid to even touch or hug their own children because they are afraid that they are next.
Please look at this curve and understand that while we have an excellent health care system, when the majority of the finite resources in your system is directed to addressing this singular cause, there will come a breaking point where it will mean less resources for everyone else going through anything else in this same window. If you get into an accident. The cancer patients. Anyone else who needs the ICU. Ventilators. Respirators.
There is so much more I can say. But so many others have already said it. Have made their pleas. So please if there's anything to stay woke about right now, stay informed. Be responsible. Stay at home. I don't care if you're an extrovert or a social butterfly. Can you just please don't meet friends in real life for a few weeks. I promise you that you won't die. But if you meet them, the probability of someone dying, be it yourself, someone you know, or someone they know, increases exponentially.
Don't just look at the measures and the delicate balance that the government is trying so hard to maintain and think to yourself that as long as we haven't gone to dorscon red that it is "not that bad yet". The government is trying to reason with us believing that we can be socially responsible adults that will know the right thing to do. But they think too highly of us. Many people are still acting like teenagers who need to be grounded to their rooms and given consequences for their actions.
Please. Stay. Home. (Yes I know we all need to eat and get food and run quick errands and get some fresh air downstairs. I'm referring to intentionally meeting any groups of friends/family or strangers for a prolonged span of time when it is neither crucial or necessary to do so). Any other option is selfish and irresponsible.
