[robocat]

> Look at South Korea

No: look at Taiwan. They started acting immediately on the 29th of December and escalated very early January.

Did Taiwan have information that other countries did not? Or why did they act so quickly when other countries did not?

[sfj]

They got burned by SARS

[cjrp]

> Did Taiwan have information that other countries did not?

Certainly not from China.