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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The people who claim other countries do this or that should really spend some time living abroad and seeing that what’s reported in the media is often not what us actually happening. Also, spend some time reading what the media from other countries is saying about the US. It’s rarely what we are seeing on the ground. [/quote]

What are you talking about? Singapore is distributing masks, I’m the Op and got this from a friend who lives there who got a message on her app to pick one up.  It’s not like here where we can’t even agree that masks are a good thing and health care professionals are dying because they don’t have the appropriate protective equipment.  I don’t understand why some people are so defensive when other countries are doing better at something.  It’s something to strive for, not to attack. [/quote]

Singapore has about the same population as NYC. If that was all we had to worry about, I think we’d be doing better too. [/quote]

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Singapore has been held up for decades as the shining example of many things - their education system, management of economy, and now this crisis.  Many countries would love to be this successful but one cannot simply scale the Singapore experience to countries (like the USA)that are hundreds of times bigger in size. This is not an excuse for the incompetence on display by our government but even if they wanted to could not come close to Singapore’s success in the current crisis.

That being said it’s clear that many people posting on here have never been to Singapore and know even less about life there.  People actually trust the government there (regardless of whether or not we consider it authoritarian or a dictatorship etc) so they can mobilise very quickly and respond to this crisis. Civil servants are also paid private sector wages there so you are dealing with very competent officials who are more technocrats than bureaucrats.  I could go on but yes, their system is different than ours (and should not be demonized over some silly issue like chewing gum) but it serves its people extremely well and helps give them a very high quality of life.

Sincerely, 
US citizen who used to live in Singapore and is now back in DC[/quote]

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