Hard vs Soft lock down is maybe a difficult distinction. Excluding China, Korea and Japan is a lot but Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, T

Hard vs Soft lock down is maybe a difficult distinction. Excluding China, Korea and Japan is a lot but Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and Singapore all had lockdowns that were stricter (more observed and more enforced) than anything in California. Of course a lockdown has less impact when it is not really enforced (California) and you could make the case that near universal mask wearing has been a bigger boost to most Asian countries’s efforts to stop Covid-19.