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ssjevot posted...

Neither Taiwan or Singapore shut down and they have among the best numbers around. Korea and Japan also never did mandatory lockdowns and both have very low numbers compares to the West. The truth is nothing the West legally does will matter much at this point because of cultural issues and refusal to take advice from East Asian countries early on. They started admitting masks work like a month ago in most of the West and many still doubt it.

That's because Taiwan and Singapore are tiny places with easily controllable borders, and so are Korea and Japan. In contrast, China is a developing country with the world's third largest landmass plus the world's largest population. Comparing the response between China and smaller Asian countries without accounting for these factors is just ridiculous.

ssjevot posted...

Hirunesukidayo posted...

I mean you shouldn't, the countries that did best certainly weren't following either of their guidelines. They shut down travel while the WHO insisted there was no need, they used masks when they were saying they didn't work, Taiwan told the WHO back in December it was infectious and they hadn't even acknowledged it existed at that point. Political organizations shouldn't be confused for science. Those organizations have both done incredible harm by causing the public to distrust science.

That's a false claim.

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-03-24/taiwan-says-who-ignored-its-coronavirus-questions-at-start-of-outbreak

All Taiwan asked WHO was whether COVID19 can have H2H transmissions, but since the genome wasn't mapped until mid January they can't have a definite answer. The Taiwanese government which is currently involved in a spat with the Chinese government then falsely claimed that they "warned" WHO after the crisis worsened to score political points.

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