I think it's safe to say that this pandemic was relatively low key compared to the plagues that have actually decimated humanity in the past, and we've learned

I think it's safe to say that this pandemic was relatively low key compared to the plagues that have actually decimated humanity in the past, and we've learned there isn't a coordinated political response that resolves it. Even with previously unimaginable co-ordination technology available to us to handle it via the internet, contactless payments, food and everything delivery, remote work(!), and other utterly alien concepts to any previous time in human history that might have encountered a plague, the outcomes predicted in antiquity are the same. I said at the beginning of this that there are only three options, because there have only ever always been three options, and they were recorded in of all places, the old testament (Samuel, but would be interested in other tradition's books as well), as a way to make sure humans had the answer to pandemics ready at hand from pre-antiquity. In the event of a pandemic, humanity is given the option of a) try to resist it with our human abilities and get 7 years of economic famine which destroys the wealth of generations, b) three months of war as a result of forfeiting your leadership role to focus on pandemic response, or c) a short period of deaths and loss of people who were vulnerable to it. The western world chose option a, China and India (and oddly, Sweden) appear to have chosen option c. Pandemic policy has nothing to do with biology at this point, if it ever did. It's just polls about what the most fearful (or worse) will accept. What we also know is that vaccine passports have nothing to do with biology either, and authorities are using this to institute a para-governmental internal passport system in their countries. If people want to hum and haw about how the real problem is the unvaccinated on a farcically authoritarian island citystate with 90%+ immunity, they are welcome to. However, if Singapore can't solve this, it's not a problem with a political solution.