Covid-19 crisis This scholar agrees that safe entry recording is useless
Dear Mr. Tan

I was a government scholar but for the past decade I have been working as an entrepreneur in the private sector in the info-tech field.

I read your post about safe entry and contact tracing. Based on my common sense, I wish to state that I agree with you completely.

With my knowledge of data processing, I cannot see how the data collected during the safe entry can be of any use. It must be a complete waste of resources to collect data that are quite useless. 

Suppose an infected person had visited a location at a certain time, and the ministry is able to locate the people who had visited the same location around the same time, it does not mean that the other people have been infected. 

I read that a person need to be within a certain distance from another person for a certain duration before the infection can be passed to the next person.

The safe entry record does not specify the duration and the distance.

The only reason to justify the use of the safe entry ambassador is that it create jobs for unemployed people. 

I do not mind that these jobs are given to elderly people who cannot find other work. However, I have seen many young people take up this job. They can even earn more than $100 a day. It is quite attractive.

I agree with your view that the young people can be used to do the outdoor work that are now done by foreign workers - such as landscaping and road repair. But it is difficult to get them do do the outdoor work as it is hot and does not pay well.

Anyway, they will not want to do the outdoor work, if they can have an easy job as a safe entry ambassador.

Mr. Tan, I agree with your concern about the future for Singapore, if we continue to do unproductive work and if our young people do not learn useful skills for useful work. I wish you all the best in your effort to make people realize this problem. I agree with you.

(name withheld)
 

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