That simply is not true. You are comparing apples to oranges. First, SK and Taiwan has potential latent immunity with SARS v1, and China literally imprisoned an entire city. Canada is the only fair comparison.
Now that we are on month six of this disaster, I would have taken a full lockdown of my city[1], if it meant that that the virus would have been brought under control in two months, and lockdown were lifted after three... And 200,000[2] lives had been saved.
And neither Korea nor Taiwan had latent immunity. What those countries had is a CDC equivalent that actually did it's job, because of its experience with SARS.
[1] My city did actually get a full lockdown, when the civil unrest started a few months ago. Apparently, people protesting deserves a curtailment of basic freedoms, but stopping a deadly pandemic does not. Puzzle me that...
[2] That number will keep growing, not to mention unprecedented economic damage.
