Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Not sure if anyone's mentioned this yet but there are not even 6 million people in Singapore. 8.6 million in NYC alone.

Both the USA and Singapore are first world countries. Plenty of states don’t have populations that approach Singapore’s population yet I don’t see any state with covid responses as smart as Singapore’s. Yes it’s a small country. Doesn’t mean we can’t try to do things as efficiently as they do, one day when things return to normal. I would love to get a text from my government telling me where to pick up a face mask sourced from their national strategic reserve. Instead I have to search tons of websites even for the cheapy disposable kind, determine that they are unavailable and instead google did YouTube videos on how to make a face mask from a bra strap and some pieces of cloth.

I watched Crazy Rich Asians... twice.. so I'm an expert on Singapore now.

Well easy peasy, five more million and they are all covered. Now compare Singapore to NYC ..
not to the whole USA even.