Commentary: TraceTogether and SafeEntry were never foolproof in averting recent fishery port and KTV clusters

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Don’t blame the technology. COVID-19 control technology depends on the cooperation of citizens to be fully effective, says SMU Professor Mark Findlay.

Though its use is mandatory, there is also nothing stopping someone from turning off the bluetooth on their phone after they have scanned at the entry point thus disabling the tracing capacity.

Once inside, if the proprietor allows customers to associate in violation of safe distancing and minimum occupancy protocols, and condones risky personal activity between customers and hostesses, where "butterflying” from one room to another exacerbates the risk of infection and spread, then tracing and tracking cannot identify these violations.

But once authorities have identified patrons, this information can be supplemented by wider testing and the use of additional pandemic surveillance methods such as wastewater surveillance to draw a larger circle and test people living in the vicinity of suspected cases to respond more swiftly.The best commentaries and analysis to help you see beyond the news headlines.This service is not intended for persons residing in the EU.

 

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Complacency n incompetent in managing the recent convid 19 outbreak. Absolutely useless people from the task force in managing the situation

Why give people a choice to check-in and check-out? It works on blue tooth, would have been easier to check how many interactions and reach out to them.

TraceTogether epic fail In May: “supermarkets that are located within a mall and have the same operating hours as the mall will no longer need to implement SafeEntry, now that the TT coverage is widened” Now: SafeEntry enforced for supermarkets, hawkers, markets, mall checkout

Point of TT wasn't to avert the clusters though... It was meant to track and isolate cases right. Thus limiting the spread by making contact tracing easier instead of letting the virus spread more if it takes longer to do contact tracing.

Any rule is only as good as it’s enforcement

the pap regime sold their; they pay themselves millions because they are the best at what they do and are 'top scholars' who knows the best way to rule singapore, to voters then comes all these loopholes fiasco and kena lobang for multiple routes for virus to 'slip in undetected'

Overall its Complacency cost us dear

I know why TT not effective for KTV cases , obvious reasons , but Jurong Fishery Port cannot be excuse , Safe Entry Management not to standard .

Trace together is for the purpose, when there is a infected case , to trace and prevent spread. If we have people refusing to wear mask then we have to accept that there are people who do not want to be trace.

When the token is out of battery and you have to go to the hassle go change it. Troublesome

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