High Court rejects bid to challenge vaccination-differentiated measures

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SINGAPORE - The High Court has dismissed a bid by six unvaccinated people, including activist and blogger Han Hui Hui, to challenge Singapore's vaccination-differentiated measures.

SINGAPORE - The High Court has dismissed a bid by six unvaccinated people, including activist and blogger Han Hui Hui, to challenge Singapore's vaccination-differentiated measures.

The group had also applied to quash the Government's decision to make people who are unvaccinated by choice bear the full cost of their medical treatment if they contract Covid-19.Lastly, the group also sought to show they had legitimate expectations of keeping their jobs and having their coronavirus-related hospital bills covered regardless of vaccination status, since the Government had said vaccination is not mandatory.

The group claimed that for every unvaccinated person who died of Covid-19, Singapore would see another 4.7 deaths among the fully vaccinated. The High Court has dismissed a bid by six unvaccinated people, including activist and blogger Han Hui Hui, to challenge Singapore's vaccination-differentiated measures. PHOTO: HAN HUI HUI/INSTAGRAM

On Dec 6, 18 fully vaccinated people were critically ill, compared with 29 people in the non-fully vaccinated group. On the issue of constitutional discrimination, Justice Gill noted that the group of six were not"equally situated" with the fully vaccinated population. He cited studies showing that unvaccinated people are more likely to get infected and pass the virus on, as well as die or become severely ill and strain the healthcare system.

 

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the whole system is corrupt 🖕

Cos the vaccines work so well of course 🤡🤡🤡

Who had any hopes? No separation of powers.

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