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Absolutely false, South Korea isolated the people with the disease after making very fast and swift vast amount of tests per day (30.000) after a joint effort with the private sector and such proceedings could be perfectly be labeled as "isolation"[0] which is exactly what a lockdown is.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-exemplar-south-korea

[deathgrips]

Did they lockdown the whole country for months?

[disgruntledphd2]

No, because they caught their cases incredibly early, and were entirely willing to aggregate pretty much all data they could get to track spread, and do things that would have caused riots in different cultures (like the US).

I mean, look at how little people trusted the Google-Apple contact tracing model vs South Korea where they actually track everyone using QR codes and get mobile data to trace chains of infection.

It's a very different culture, and it appears to be based on their more recent experience of pandemics (like MERS and SARS). Note that Montreal has done pretty well here too, and was one of the few places in the West with a SARS outbreak.

[mattigames]

Well said.