Bloomberg has identified a post on the All Singapore Stuff website as the target of Ho Ching's cryptic rebuttal against criticism on Singapore's handling of the Covid-19 crisis.

Bloomberg quotes Ho Ching's Facebook post

On Apr. 18, the venerable Bloomberg took the unusual step of reporting on a apparently casual but highly cryptic Facebook post that the Temasek Holdings CEO had put up on Apr. 17.

In her post, Ho wrote, "Don't put words in my mouth, young man!", and added that it was not just Singapore but the world that had underestimated the asymptomatic transmission of Covid-19.

In addition, "mistakes, trips and falls" should be expected in the fight against the virus.

She also called for the "young man" to not outdo himself: "Don't act smart alec, by blaming this or that person"

Ho added, almost in uncharacteristic fashion:

"So don’t give me the crap about 'I told you so' - hindsight is always beautiful and perfect."

All Singapore Stuff post spun Ho Ching's remarks as saying Singapore leaders made mistake

Bloomberg further reported that while Ho did not mention who the rebuttal was directed at, it appeared to have been targeted at a post on the All Singapore Stuff website.

The post, "Covid19: Ho Ching Says 4G Leadership Underestimated the Virus and Made Mistakes in Recalling Singaporeans Back", selectively and liberally quoted a section of a previous Facebook post that Ho had put up on Apr. 16.

The All Singapore Stuff post lifted selected sentences from Ho's Facebook posting and stitched them together:

"we call our folks home from abroad when we saw cases spiking overseas.

We are now paying a price for that call, bcos we underestimated the covid and used a sars lens.

We did take the precaution of home quarantine notices for returnees. And only later did we require returnees to go hotel quarantine away from their own families.

This means seepages of infection into our broader community."

Here is Ho's Apr. 16 post:

Ho puts up another rebuttal, with the source identified

Issuing one rebuttal aside, Ho also put up another post to address a Facebook commenter directly.

Ho put up this second rebuttal on Apr. 18, this time over the issue about the outbreak of the virus at migrant workers dormitories.

In this instance, Ho identified the person she was rebutting as "a young lady who had made a comment in one of my posts".

According to Ho, the woman had allegedly stated that migrant workers were a "covid 'problem'" that should be deported back to their home countries.

Ho added that she was not angry, however, and thought that the lady panicked at the infection numbers.

Here is her post in full:

Top image collage left image from Ho Ching Facebook, right image from All Singapore Stuff Facebook