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> The lengths at which it went to contain the virus are mind-boggling. For example, they had up to 1,800 teams of 5 people each tracking every infected person, everybody they got interacted with, then everybody those people interacted with, and isolating the bunch. That’s how they were able to contain the virus across a billion-people country.
> This is not what Western countries have done. And now it’s too late.
They also release to the press the location/time infected person was at, such as name of hospital/events. And these are reported to the public.
So S. Korea does not do a carpet bombing type of lock down as China but more of a surgical strike type of lock down. But it is a lock down.