work of decades and trust has to be built up long before the crisis when a crisis strikes if the trust is not already there then it is already too latei am grateful that the pap government enjoys the publics trust built up over years of working closely with singaporeans weve been delivering faithfully on promises consistently producing results for the people housing healthcare education wellpaying jobs better lives we have shown year in year out in good times and bad in crisis after crisis that the pap government will always be there with you for you for singapore the prime minister saidduring the covid19 crisis the government needed to draw on this reservoir of trust as it faced many difficult and urgent decisions impacting lives and livelihoods said leewhatever we decide however hard we try to get it right and to cushion the impact more often than not some group or other will be affected or disappointed yet the government must exercise its judgment to the best of its ability and carry singaporeans along he saidtrust is important not just between singaporeans and the leaders but between each other too and while rules and penalties are necessary they are not enough he explainedwe must also trust our collective spirit as one people looking out for one another supporting those in greater need staying united in a crisis the channel had lee as sayingsingapore cannot claim to have better doctors or scientists or better healthcare than the us or europe but the decisive difference in our response is this we trust one another and therefore we work with one another and not against one another he added