Leaving aside that I don't know who is "we" and how "we have acted": A theme of the current pandemic has been that the societies/governments that had faced a co

Leaving aside that I don't know who is "we" and how "we have acted": A theme of the current pandemic has been that the societies/governments that had faced a coronavirus outbreak in the past, e.g. SARS in Taiwan, South Korea, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, have acted a lot more swiftly and decisively relative to most Western nations. It is hard to ignore that this approach has been more successful in terms of fatalities and economic costs (ignoring personal rights and freedoms).