The virus could not have been prevented. Hungary closed their border and succeeded until last fall. Then they got slammed. Taiwan succeeded until a month ago and is now starting to get over their first wave with a lockdown and zero-privacy tracking and tracing. Pretty simple choice for the people of Taiwan: get COVID and accept 0.2% mortality of their entire population. Or get vaccinated with an effective vaccine (not Chinese).
The third choice is isolation and 100% tracking and tracing, along with cultural uniformity and obedience to authority (which does not exist here).
So when is that going to happen?
When are we going to see a truly effective real vaccine?