In Singapore, Quarantine Comes with Sea View, Room Service

I&#x27;m in Singapore<p>That girl got lucky. Most people end up in a cheap service apartment. You get assigned something and have no choice. I have a few friends who are currently in less luxurious accomodations

Is it just me or does this kinda sound like an advertisement for the tourist industry? Call me cynical.<p>I mean yeah people are being put up in hotels because it makes sense.

In Australia a similar scheme (almost exactly the same by the look of it) has recently been implemented.<p>Needless to say, people complained about being confined to their 4 or 5 star hotel room.<p>I understand the boredom, but people had a week to get back to Australia after the government recommended it, and it seems a decent trade off between individual freedoms and killing people. For context, in Australia over 50% of the current covid-19 cases are from people returning from overseas[1]<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.health.gov.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;health-alerts&#x2F;novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-health-alert&#x2F;coronavirus-covid-19-current-situation-and-case-numbers" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.health.gov.au&#x2F;news&#x2F;health-alerts&#x2F;novel-coronavir...</a> (scroll down or search for &quot;acquired overseas&quot;)

This kind of publicity is good for tourism . I guess when the pandemic is over tourists will be rushing to Singapore with a vengeance.

So rich people, who were traveling around the world, are being provided luxurious isolation facilities by the government, while the poor, who didn&#x27;t venture out of their country, will have to now practice &quot;social distancing&quot; mostly on their own cost. Off course these are sensible actions to take in the current time, but this just feels weird.

I like stories about how Singaporeans are doing well because unlike with Scandinavian countries the woodwork-crawlers can&#x27;t use the muddy and dark-implications heavy &quot;homogenous population&quot; argument.