There have been so few Covid-related deaths in Singapore for so long that it was both uncanny but reassuring. Of course, it couldn't last. There were 10 deaths yesterday and the total now reads 349. Amazingly low compared to other places, but enough to emphasise the sheer nastiness of the virus. Each one likely to be a source of grief for someone somewhere, and since grief is endless we move beyond numbers into that which lies beyond measurement.
I'm not looking forward to seeing that number increase, but it surely will - which surely makes it incumbent upon us to mitigate that increase as much as we are able to. It's easy to forget in this context what just the single digit 1 means, but we can at least try to remember.
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