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The #Singapore government has released an article introducing the "Virus Vanguard", a group of superheroes "fighting our #COVID19 battle in a parallel world" — so they aren't helping us with the battle in this world? gov.sg/article/battli…
"Man Man is a fanatical Manchester United fan" who hates Liverpool, including their You'll Never Walk Alone motto. "His hatred for Liverpool so far exceeds his love for Man Utd that it manifested as a telekinesis power in MAWA Man to push objects and people through his eyes."
"Felix was a flat earth believer until he failed his geography in secondary school and could not follow his girlfriend to the same JC. Devastated, he denounced flat earth and all things fake."

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"A failed experiment during her doctorate studies caused her to shrink to the size of a microorganism. Her colleague then unwittingly flushed her down the toilet."

Is this better or worse than the French colleagues who put the guy on a fighter jet: buzzfeednews.com/article/davidm…
I hope the fame of this superhero group doesn't outshine the Soaper 5, the original squad to teach kids about hygiene and cleanliness during #COVID19. #Singapore
But wait! A twist! Less than a day after they were introduced, the Virus Vanguard are now being reviewed. The original gov.sg webpage with the backstories is now returning a 404 error: gov.sg/article/battli…
Yesterday I said in a chat group that it'd be *so* #Singapore if the identified offensive part of Virus Vanguard wasn't that the Indian character's backstory originally involved being flushed down the toilet, but the football references... and then: channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore…
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1/ An op-ed for @washingtonpost today: washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/…

Lawrence Wong, co-chair of the task force to tackle #COVID19, said things would have been done differently had they known things were going to turn out this way with the migrant worker dormitories.
2/ But there was no way #Singapore's government didn't know about the conditions in the dorms. NGOs like @twc2sg and @home_migrantssg have been raising this issue for *years*. Journalists like myself have been reporting on migrant worker issues, writing to the ministry for input.
3/ They also should have known about the risks of outbreaks or other diseases stemming from overcrowding and/or cleanliness and hygiene issues: NGOs and reports have flagged cases of chickenpox, dengue, zika, etc. twc2.org.sg/2016/09/04/for…
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MIGRANT WORKERS IN #SINGAPORE DURING #COVID19—THREAD:

Since I've been tweeting about this so much I've decided that I should just put together a thread so everything is in one place for everyone. I have no idea how long this thread will go, but let's see, shall we? ⬇️
First off: who are these migrant workers? #Singapore has close to 1 million work permit holders, men and women. Here we're talking about male migrant workers who work on construction sites, shipyards, petrochemical refineries, etc., mostly from #India and #Bangladesh.
On 5 April, the #Singapore government first gazetted two dormitories—S11 Dormitory @ Punggol and Westlite Toh Guan dormitory—as isolation areas for 14 days. This meant that about 20,000 men were confined to their rooms. #COVID19
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A bill to tackle “foreign interference” (however the PAP government wants to define it) is definitely coming to #Singapore soon.
Hi @kennethcjw, just sent you an email! Given the urgency and seriousness of the accusations made against me in your article, I’m publishing the email too.
@kennethcjw This part of @TODAYonline’s report spreads inaccurate and false information that dangerously rachets up the smearing of activists like myself as threats to the nation.

In the following tweets I’ll address these comments quickly (fuller response forthcoming).
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