Talk:2020–21 Singapore circuit breaker measures

Why "circuit breaker"?

The term isn't obvious to me. It may be to others. Anyway, why was it used? And, as it's used in the name of this article, rather than calling it "Singapore covid-19 measures" or something similar, the term should be clarified. Fomalhaut76 (talk) 10:09, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Fomalhaut76 because the minister in charge is an electrical engineer by training. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYfIjyFLhCU Essentially, the authorities saw the measures they took as a multi-faceted approach possibly requiring fine-tuning of each measure as and when necessary as the situation demanded. – robertsky (talk) 12:50, 23 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]