The government response was highly competent, it's a high trust society where people have mostly followed the regulations and many here, including me, remember

The government response was highly competent, it's a high trust society where people have mostly followed the regulations and many here, including me, remember the original SARS outbreak in 2002. The situation just isn't remotely similar to the highly politicized responses elsewhere in the world. I never doubted that the government knew what it was doing. The vice president was an epidemiologist! It's hard to emphasize how different this is from many western countries where politicians tend to be innumerate and come from legal or management backgrounds.