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No 4G ministers can handle Defence, Home and Foreign Affairs. No wonder mutant Covid-19 virus can easily break through Changi Airport.

 




No 4G ministers can handle 

Defence, Home and Foreign Affairs.

No wonder mutant Covid-19 virus 

can easily break through Changi Airport.



Lee Hsien Loong presented his fifth cabinet last year and made a major reshuffle recently. However, there is NO change in Defence, Home and Foreign Affairs ministries.  


Why does Lee not want to make changes in these portfolios?  

 

We don’t know.  Perhaps, experiences in these portfolios are not important for 4G ministers.  Perhaps, there is a hidden agenda.  What agenda? None of the 4G ministers can handle these difficult jobs.  Perhaps, 4G is just a drama, where there is no succession plan.


Below is the list of 2G and 3G ministers who had headed these portfolios.  We will know how different and how big the gap is between 4G and 2G/3G.  



Can experiences in Defence, Home and Foreign Affairs help 4G ministers better handle the Covid-19 crisis?  When mutant virus attacks, they can adapt, adjust and respond effectively???  


4G ministers set up a Defence at Changi Airport.  Unfortunately, they forget about Total Defence.  At the start of the Covid-19, we talked about this TD.  When the mutant Covid-19 comes, they use the same old strategies.  


In the Home front, the Covid-19 broke our defence at dormitories.  It put pressure on our ICU and labor administration and control. This round the problem is community.  This is a bigger problem and TraceTogether is too slow to catch the mutant virus.    


In Foreign affairs, we follow the world to wear masks and drop the famous ‘no sick no mask’ strategy. We also dropped the word Wuhan and called it Covid-19.  4G  ministers are now struggling to use ‘South Asia’.  South Asia means many countries.  Not sure the Foreign Ministry has given any advice to 4G ministers.


4G ministers need multi-disciplinary experiences. But why Defence, Home and Foreign Affairs are not included. Only Lee Hsien Loong has the answer. What is the real reason?




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