Mr Wong said the Government recognises that maintaining a 1m distance from another person on public transport is not easy. But other measures have been implemented to continue safeguarding commuters.

This includes the mandatory wearing of masks, and urging commuters not to talk to one another or on the phone during the journey. Public transport operators have also been asked to step up their cleaning regimes, he added.
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/health/working-from-home-will-continue-to-be-the-default-in-phase-2-to-reduce-transmission

Preliminary research suggests students nationwide will return to school in the fall with roughly 70% of learning gains in reading relative to a typical school year, and less than 50% in math, according to projections by NWEA, an Oregon-based nonprofit that provides research to help educators tailor instruction. It expects a greater learning loss for minority and low-income children who have less access to technology, and for families more affected by the economic downturn.


https://www.wsj.com/articles/schools-coronavirus-remote-learning-lockdown-tech-11591375078

Every time people cough, sneeze, talk or even breathe they can spread droplets containing the virus.

That’s the rather graphic conclusion of the Royal Society, Britain’s oldest and most prestigious scientific academy.

It highlights the risk of the virus being spread by people who don’t realise they have it - either because they’ve yet to develop symptoms or because they never show symptoms at all.

This is how an estimated 40-80% of coronavirus infections happen and that’s why the panel recommends face masks.

The report stresses that high-quality masks should be reserved for medical and care workers.

But it says homemade face coverings can be effective, not at protecting the wearer but at preventing the wearer from infecting others where social distancing isn’t possible, on public transport and in shops and workplaces.

The issue has become highly divisive. Some researchers say the Royal Society’s report has ignored the risk to the public, for example, of contaminating themselves when handling masks.

The UK government is still considering the evidence.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-52525531

“Imagine you’re stepping on a traditional medical scale. It has two weight bars, one with notches at fifty-pound intervals and the other with notches at one-pound intervals. This allows the user to measure their weight down to the pound. What would happen if your doctor used a scale with only one bar with just two notches, one at fifty pounds and one at five hundred pounds, with no way to measure anything in between? Good luck getting medical advice after the person weighing you writes one or the other on your chart. You could only be morbidly obese or severely underweight. It would be impossible to make good decisions about your weight with such a poor model.

The same holds true for just about all of our decisions. If we misrepresent the world at the extremes of right and wrong, with no shades of grey in between, our ability to make good choices—choices about how we are supposed to be allocating our resources, what kind of decisions we are supposed to be making, and what kind of actions we are supposed to be taking—will suffer.”

--- Annie Duke. “Thinking in Bets.”

The point is that, just as it is impossible for someone who lacks military experience to write well about warfare, it is impossible for someone who has never acted in the political sphere or faced a political crisis to write good political history. Nothing written by authors who rely on mere book-learning has the clarity that comes from personal experience, and so nothing is gained by reading their work. For without its educational element, history is altogether uninspiring and useless. Moreover, when such authors decide, despite their lack of relevant experience, to give detailed accounts of cities and terrains, obviously the same thing happens: they omit a great deal that is worth mentioning, and linger over things that do not deserve it.

--- Polybius, The Histories.

You might think that people who regularly read the news are more informed about their political opponents. In fact, the opposite is the case. We found that the more news people consumed, the larger their Perception Gap.
...
We identified how specific news sources are associated with varying levels of distorted understanding in their audiences. Some news sources are associated with larger Perception Gaps, in particular Breitbart, Drudge Report and popular talk radio programs such as Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh. But large Perception Gaps are also associated with liberal sources such as Huffington Post and the Daily Kos. Only one media source is associated with better understanding other Americans’ views: the traditional television networks of ABC, NBC and CBS.

https://perceptiongap.us/



wsj seems to be ok too.

... it must be perfectly 
         indifferent to you 
                   whether you say, 
when you 
       have discovered 
                   this unity: 
God has wisely 
            willed 
                   it so; 
         or:
Nature has wisely 
                arranged. 

For it was nothing but
                the systematic unity, 
which reason 
           requires 
                 as a basis for the investigation
of nature, 
that justified you
                in accepting 
                           the idea of
a supreme intelligence
                       as a schema for
                              a regulative principle;
and, the farther you 
            advance in the discovery 
of design 
        and finality, the more certain 
                                  the validity 
of your
           idea.
...
These principles, 
             by placing the goal of all
our struggles 
             at so great 
                        a distance, 
realize for us 
              the most thorough 
                         connection between 
the different parts of 
                     our cognition, 
                               and the highest 
degree of systematic unity. 
                            But, 
on the other hand,
              if misunderstood 
                        and employed as 
constitutive principles
                of transcendent cognition, 
                                  they become 
the parents of illusions 
                    and contradictions, 
                            while pretending to 
introduce us to 
             new regions of 
                          knowledge.