‘Let me get Covid, please’: Shifting views of virus in Singapore prompt expert to warn against actively seeking out infection
- An Omicron surge in Singapore means almost half of the country’s 642,605 infections have occurred within the past 28 days
- In the highly-vaccinated and boosted nation, attitudes towards Covid have become more relaxed – but danger remains for the unvaccinated, experts say
After advertising tech firm manager Lukas Ng kept telling his friends he wanted to “catch Covid-19”, one of them wrote a song about it. A line in the lyrics of the song, that friends of the 32-year-old have been circulating among themselves goes: “Let me get Covid, please!”
Ng, who has received two shots of the Pfizer vaccine, tested positive on February 14. It felt like it could not come soon enough though. His girlfriend had tested positive earlier and he continued spending time with her as she stayed home. Eight days later, he got a positive result.
“With Omicron being much milder than previous variants, it made sense to catch it, isolate and quarantine myself from my family, so I can form another ‘wall’ from this disease,” he said.
“Sooner or later, every one of us will meet the virus,” he said.
