27 COVID-19 cases at MINDSville@Napiri Adult Disability Home in Hougang
"The four cases added to Wednesday's case count were all fully vaccinated against COVID-19...
All 255 residents and employees at MINDSville@Napiri were tested. The facility serves a total of 112 residents, it said in a Facebook post on Wednesday night.
Of the 27 cases, 23 were asymptomatic and were discovered through proactive testing...
A total of 91 per cent of the staff members and residents at the home have also been vaccinated in February and March"
So:
The vaccines are more or less 100% effective at preventing hospitalisation and death.
Singapore is finding that fully vaccinated people are still getting infected (not just in this case, but also the airport and other places), and has a quasi lockdown because of that.
There're repeated moral panics over new variants.
Not everyone is willing and able to get vaccinated. Besides those who don't want to there's also the people with medical contraindications. In this case 91% of staff members and residents were vaccinated, which is above the highest estimated herd immunity thresholds for covid I've seen (60-70% - at least before it was concluded that we may never reach it).
So it looks like Singapore will be cut off from the world forever and undergo regular lockdowns. Probably other places which have been "successful" in controlling covid too will be doomed to the same fate.
