Praise for the South Korean approach! South Korea has clearly demonstrated how to handle an epidemic in the 20th year of the 21st century without resorting to medieval methods based on superstition!
Most Western countries have completely failed in this respect!
Why was this approach not more widely emulated like in the U.S.? Until about 3/10/2020, South Korea had one of the highest infection rates of all countries outside of China. Since then South Korea has managed to keep the increase of new cases to a few hundred per day or even significantly less.
" ... Seoul was able to accomplish it without imposing China’s draconian social measures or declaring widespread quarantines, travel bans, or business closures, as in other countries. ... South Korea was rightly praised for its well-organized and aggressive mitigation efforts. Seoul implemented rapid and extensive testing, combined with high-tech monitoring and public notifications to identify and contain new cases. ... Characteristics of Seoul’s approach included quickly implementing widespread testing, having the national leadership provide strong direction, relying on innovative interaction with businesses that reduced government red tape, and executing extensive and intrusive personal monitoring. ..."
Let's not forget that this "extensive and intrusive monitoring" was probably focused to probable cause or infected people.
"One week after that meeting, South Korea’s equivalent of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention began approving companies’ diagnostic tests with others soon following. Within two weeks, South Korea was producing 100,000 kits per day. ... South Korea isolated and treated patients with mild or even no symptoms, which constrained further spread and minimized the impact on hospitals."
South Korea Provides Lessons, Good and Bad, on Coronavirus Response | The Heritage Foundation: Early international media reporting on the outbreak of the COVID-19 coronavirus in South Korea was both alarming and alarmist.
News coverage emphasized that, outside of China, South Korea had the highest number of coronavirus cases, which led 170 other countries to impose travel entry bans on South Koreans.
But, after new cases peaked in late February, the number of sick people is now decreasing and the number of recovered patients is rising.
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