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TL;DR: Korea, Taiwan, China are fighting COVID effectively avoiding country-locked-at-home mode. Major tool for that is the total control on population, e.g. u
by c-smile 7y ago
TL;DR: Korea, Taiwan, China are fighting COVID effectively avoiding country-locked-at-home mode.
Major tool for that is the total control on population, e.g. using smartphones and other technical means.
The fact: people and society in general there have different mentality historically. Population density was significantly more high there in thousands of years.
And so, in these thousands of years, population agreed on far smaller "privacy radius" by giving up personal privacy, generation by generation.
As of "privacy radius", consider population of Korea - 52 mln and population of Canada - 38 mln. While territory of Canada is 100,000 times larger.
So in East Asia you can technically implement total control of each person. Countries have infrastructure and acceptance of population already.
Therefore they can fight such problems effectively.
But on other hand high density of the population is a breeding bullion for next such COVIDs ...