Thinking Aloud

Uncertainties ahead: Battling Covid-19 and other looming foes

Waiting, watching and wishful thinking won’t do if we are to face off challenges

PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: CEL GULAPA
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The ongoing, interminable battle against Covid-19, an intractable, invisible foe that seems to be everywhere, provides perhaps a glimpse of what life was like for those who endured the harrowing years when Singapore fell under enemy occupation.

The long spells of watching, waiting, and wondering.

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