Musings of a 50+ year old boy – a halftime journey
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The Debate Heats Up for the Unvaccinated – Week 74
Last week, I blogged about the upcoming new Covid battle between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. The voices in this debate are getting louder as Delta ravages the world, even in our compliant Little Red Dot. As the privileged countries debate on this, many others with no supply of vaccines try their best not to…
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The Next Impending COVID Battle – Week 73
The next impending COVID battle is coming very soon and it is not what we would have expected. More of this later. After the KTV saga last week, it seems that this was the lesser of the 2 developing virus spread issues that the authorities were worried about. With the KTVs, there was a more…
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Kara OK’ed – Week 72
The national KTV fiasco exploded into all our faces on Sunday for our sunny island. It was a disaster that was waiting to happen. Again and again, the virus seeks and expose a country’s weakest points and exploit them to the fullest extent possible. Just a small gap is enough for the new variants to…
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The Premonition – Week 71
Michael Lewis recently published his new book “The Premonition” about the pandemic America went through in 2020. He is the author of books like Liar’s Poker, The Blind Side and The Big Short plus various insightful articles he wrote for magazines like Vanity Fair. His books are usually not too long at about 200+ pages…
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Moving Towards Normalcy – Week 70
The Old Normal is dead. The virus has changed the world to a New Normal where we are still trying to figure out as we evolved with the pandemic and use technology for workaround solutions. It has been 1.5 years into this once in a 100 years event which has changed our lifestyles and ways…
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Getting Used to an Endemic Normal, Opening Up – Week 69
When will the Covid19 virus pandemic nightmare end? It is likely that it will never go away and that we have to get used to having it with us for a long time to come. Countries around the world are realizing that with new variants popping up once in a while and that vaccinating the…
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Disappointments, Delays, Milestone Completion – Week 68
The Western world is slowly opening up after more than a year of hibernation against the virus and Biden was targeting Independence Day as a nationwide reopening date. Then disappointment strikes… The newly termed Delta variant from India is slowly sweeping through the world and moving westwards. S’pore experienced it more than a month ago…
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It’s OK, GOP Reckoning, Vaccine Acceleration – Week 67
The video went viral this week of a performance in the American’s Got Talent show. A friend shared it in our WhatsApp group chats and all of us were humbled by the brave lady and what she has gone through in the last year. The COVID year had made everyone a mental wreck and even…
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