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...the mere fact of a population which is wise enough to wear masks during a viral outbreak will also implement any additional measures necessary. So this simple metric becomes self fulfilling and one which can reliably be counted own to produce similar results when applied by other countries or entities.
"The success of the efforts against COVID-19 in Taiwan, South Korea and Japan are the result of actions they took at the governmental level, not the behavioral patterns or wisdom of their populations."
Taiwan, South Korea, and to some extent Japan did a better job at initial containment of COVID-19. For Taiwan at least they did it using intrusive methods not generally possible here in the USA.