I live in British Columbia, Canada, which has, by most measures, had one of the best outcomes after South Korea in terms of 'flattening the curve'. We were una

I live in British Columbia, Canada, which has, by most measures, had one of the best outcomes after South Korea in terms of 'flattening the curve'. We were unable to do mass testing on the scale of South Korea, but our testing per capita has been among the highest in the world. In addition, we started imposing social distancing measures sooner and more broadly than most. However it's brought about, reducing transmission and flattening the curve is key. Every country had a variety of means to do so--South Korea's wasn't the only one. The regions that did so early and aggressively were successful at massively reducing the body count in comparison to countries like the U.S. that slow-rolled any and all measures for six weeks--thus, the U.S. will have, at best, 60k deaths instead of the 5k it would have had if it had enacted the measures it did eventually take just two weeks earlier.