KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — After managing to keep on top of the first wave of coronavirus outbreaks, Singapore is grappling with an alarming rise in infections among migrant workers housed in crowded dormitories.
The virus is highlighting the need for better living conditions for workers.
While Singapore’s living condition of their migrant workers were incubators of Covid that caused the resurgence, it was also reported that the other cause of the resurgence were the Singaporeans who returned from other less pro-active countries that unwittingly brought back the virus with them!
Thousands returned to Singapore from countries which had not been as proactive - among them more than 500 people who unwittingly brought the virus back with them.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/coronavirus-world-worry-singapores-virus-023547027.html
This is also a harbinger of what is to come if we curtail stay-at-home policies too early. Another wave of the plague.
This confirms what, as an immigrant to this country with most of my friends and family still abroad, I’ve feared for a long time: the last thing to return to normal will be international travel. A mandatory 2-week quarantine for anybody who enters the country seems to be the only way to prevent the resurgence of the virus.
Wow, it’s almost like a “second wave” all the actual epidemiologists have been warning about.
Weird…
Absolutely. We ignore this example at our peril. Our mortal peril. 
So lack of testing and disregard of marginalized communities leads to subsequent outbreak?
Good thing that can’t happen here.
" After Early Success, Singapore Battles New Wave Of Coronavirus Infections"
Hint-Forewarned is forearmed.
" Trump Pushing To Reopen U.S. Business Sector By The End Of The Month"
I can’t tell yet whether this is going to be portrayed as “create dickensian conditions for an underclass at your peril” or “dirty microbe-laden furriners”. Probably depends on whom you tune in to.
Racism wins again!
Or:
Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
– Matthew 25:40
But it can’t happen here.
Ignoring the health and welfare of the “lower” classes is easy as long as it doesn’t directly impact those in power but in this case, they are serving as incubators for the virus, allowing it to spread beyond them. The virus doesn’t care how much you are worth, you are food for its replication and that is it.
The orange universal “expert” with the 2 hour daily informercial says it won’t happen here. Who you gonna believe a guy with a microphone or a virus that doesn’t care about ratings?
Knowing that Trump will be using the ‘metrics in his own head’ to make a decision about when to reopen the US for business should make us all nervous. I suspect the metrics-in-the-head approach is about as reliable as Trump’s gut instinct. Meaning not much.
No wonder I’m sleeping so poorly!
Singapore is very dependent on foreign workers—most aren’t readily visible such as maids and construction workers, but even lower level white collar jobs in fields like hospitality have been going to foreign workers. The migrant worker segment also includes a lot of people who are undocumented and probably have more shadowy existences than those of people in dorms. Because debt bondage is part of the legal and illegal migration segments, these are people who literally cannot go home until their debts (incurred for getting the jobs and associated transport) are paid.
How will that help, since the virus is not only already here, but we have the highest death rate of any other country, and the worse and slowest response? Horse meet open barn door. FYI almost all of the Corona virus’s have a second and sometimes a third wave.
Even legal immigrants will be afraid to report the symptoms, since trump doesn’t see the difference between illegal and legal, all he sees is color.
The US is very dependent on foreign workers, etc. etc. I’m not seeing any difference between the two.
Foreign workers play a much larger role in the Singapore economy than they do here.