Taiwan effectively stopped the virus at the border. They have only 380 cases and 5 deaths recorded total from the coronavirus. It’s too late now for countries

Taiwan effectively stopped the virus at the border. They have only 380 cases and 5 deaths recorded total from the coronavirus. It’s too late now for countries that have allowed the coronavirus to run wild for months and spread throughout their society to emulate that. Vietnam is another success story as well I think - 255 cases, 0 deaths. This is definitely the ideal model to follow which is to prevent the disease from rooting itself within your borders, allowing the economy and society to continue as normal. Once you have wide-spread community transmission as Western countries do, emulating this approach becomes difficult... I believe the lockdowns are an attempt to effectively reset the state back to a lower number of active cases so that a South Korea style containment of the disease could be attempted.