[Bommer]

I don't know if there is a "Trump sucks" angle, but my sister in law lives in Singapore. This is for real. They have people assigned at entrances with hand held infra-red heat guns. She said she was scanned 5 times just today. Anyo e who get hot they are inquisition to find out who they have been with? How long they felt like this? If they ever coughed in public do. Wwho? Their shelves in stores are full and there is no pani, from what she says. This is a very effective and organized way to handle the crisis. This is Priminister Lee speech to Singapore population on what they learned from the Sars outbreak to deal with this. Trump (and I love him) could learn a lot from Singapore.

[familyop]

No president can do it all by himself. President Trump is limited to trying to have many lazy people do the work through an inefficient system designed by other lazy people. It’s also difficult and complicated to fire federal employees without legal consequences.

[familyop]

Many East Asian people are taught more to move in unison and work together.

[Black Agnes]

In this regard, Singapore rules from orbit.

They have random testing for this as well to make sure they don’t have any circulating clusters of the virus that might ignite a brush fire.

[pangaea6]

I still think its harder for Trump here than there. He has to deal with 50 different states, different political parties that no matter what he does them and media will blame him for something. I can see if he had instituted Singapore type measures earlier the virus would be under control but the economy would have tanked and media and dems would say he over reacted and destroyed the economy. I think he has had to walk a tight rope and make sure he had buy in from dems that this was bad. Nobody really knows how bad it can get until it gets bad. Just my thought

[goodnesswins]

Bump for later...THAT is interesting!

[P.O.E.]

Plus Singapore has a culture of compliance.

[tinamina]

My brother is living and working in Singapore. Has to get scanned several times a day.
I was telling people that they could scan a crowd and see who is hot and cull that person. I’m not sure why NYC etc is not using this technology

[laplata]

Thanks for sharing that. I’m sure Trump is learning from Singapore and incorporating that into the overall effort.

We have too many idiots in the United States, they’re like spoiled children.

[wastoute]

Singapore also threw every commie they could lay hands on out in the 50s. They’ve done a number of things properly. It’s that British heritage, maybe.