(LifeSiteNews) — The dreary days of quarantines are not over, at least in Singapore.
Following the World Health Organization’s August declaration of monkeypox (“mpox”) as a a “public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC),” Singapore’s Ministry of Health (MOH) stated on September 4 that all medical practitioners and healthcare institutions have to report all mpox cases to MOH immediately.
MOH considers mpox “a viral disease that is caused by two distinct clades of the monkeypox virus (MPXV), known as Clade I and II,” with Clade I cases being considered more serious than Clade II.
According to news platform Mothership.sg, blister-like rashes and fever are the most prevalent symptoms of mpox, although “serious complications or death can occur in medically vulnerable individuals.”
Designated hospitals will test all suspected Clade I cases identified by primary care providers via polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests on swabs of skin lesions for confirmation of the virus, as per a statement on the MOH website.
Notably, the same website admitted that “there have yet to be point-of-care rapid test kits that are sufficiently accurate in diagnosing mpox.”
Once a Clade I case is verified, MOH will immediately start quarantining close contacts of the case in an allocated government quarantine facility for 21 days. This considerable length of quarantine is similar to Singapore’s strict quarantine protocols during the peak of COVID-19 in 2021.
“We are monitoring the situation closely with our international counterparts, and are ready to respond decisively should the situation change,” MOH said in a press release cited by Mothership.sg.
Additionally, the Singapore government has authorized a vaccine supposedly to combat mpox. Known as Jynneos, this “vaccine” will be given to two groups, namely healthcare workers at the highest risk of exposure to mpox, as well as close contacts of mpox cases (Clade I and Clade II), an MOH press release disclosed.
The MOH claims that this vaccine is a live attenuated (non-replicating) one, and added that the Expert Committee on Immunization stated that a single dose of the shot be given within 14 days of exposure to purportedly decrease people’s risk of disease.
Notably, close contacts of mpox cases will have the vaccine given while they are in quarantine, MOH divulged, without revealing details on whether these people would be given a choice to take the shots or not.
MOH asserted that its present supply of Jynneos injections would be ample according to Singapore’s current mpox vaccination strategy.
“We will continue to monitor the situation and adjust our vaccination strategy accordingly, as the pox situation and vaccine supplies evolve globally,” the ministry elaborated.
In turn, Singapore-based critics have been quick to slam the government’s announcement on its approach to dealing with mpox. Iris Koh, founder of Singapore-based group “Healing The Divide” and champion of medical freedom, lambasted the government’s “draconian measures” in a Facebook post on September 5. In her post, Koh stated:
We wish to know from Ministry of Health, Singapore.
Does that mean that they have the POWER to anyhowly VACCINATE us if we are 21 days in the designated Government Quarantine Facility???
Mothership please help to clarify what draconian measures the Government will do.
We know that under the Infectious Disease Act, they can, but I hope this is NOT another EXCUSE to VACCINATE US with EXPERIMENTAL mRNA INJECTIONS.
It’s against the Nuremberg code. They better don’t TOUCH me.
I suspect this may be a Psy Ops. Isolate us for 21 days and then make us cave to the vaccines… You have all been warned.
We should all be very concerned. Help me to share and viral please.
Koh’s post garnered various responses from Facebook users. One such response reads:
‘No cases of the more severe mpox Clade I have been detected in Singapore to date’ Since no severe mpox case detected, why people need to take the mpox jabs? Can the jabs prevent infection, transmission and serious illness? If the close contact has no mpox, he still needs to jab? If he refused to take the jab? If someone died after vaxed, would Moh be responsible? Why there are no other solutions, Moh only anyhow jabbing people? Many people have died from covid vaccine, would mpox vaccine kill many more people? A good vaccine is one which can prevent infection and transmission.
During the height of the COVID-19 craze, Singapore was subject to a regime of draconian government lockdowns and experimental vaccination campaigns. The Singapore government dealt with vaccine resistance harshly, allowing no room for dissent against its “pro-vaccine” narrative. In 2022, religious houses of worship, including Catholic churches, had to implement government-mandated “vaccination-differentiated safe management measures” (VDS). People who chose to remain “unvaccinated” due to health or ethical concerns over the abortion-tainted mRNA shots could not freely worship in religious houses as they wished. No religious exemptions were granted to those who expressed doubts about receiving the abortion-tainted shots.
