Before Singapore exits circuit breaker, let’s reflect on our biases against migrant workers

“It’s okay to break circuit breaker rules, this is a migrant worker problem anyway.”

I heard this spoken by a passerby one afternoon on my way home, after volunteering as a frontline worker at a migrant dormitory, my N95 mask and goggle marks still etched on my face.

Since then, the segregation between “them” and “us” seems to have grown.

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