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Reckless plan to move Davos 2021 to Singapore must be abandoned

Annual jamboree more likely to become a giant superspreader event

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Cordoned off Merlion Park, pictured in June 2020: Singapore is a COVID-19 exemplar by being extraordinarily risk-averse.   © Getty Images

William Pesek is an award-winning Tokyo-based journalist and author of "Japanization: What the World Can Learn from Japan's Lost Decades."

Here is a sincere suggestion concerning the World Economic Forum's plan to transport its annual jamboree of self-regard from Davos to Singapore: do not do it.

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