As an Italian living in one of the red areas I feel it's pretty hard to do better than Italy in the west if you are hit first

South Korea had Seegen almost single handedly testing the population, China is not a standard of what a liberal democracy can do

We did everything we could, I've been staying home for 3 weeks as of now, but we couldn't predict the virus spreading from the hospitals of small cities hitting hard on the elderly population

80% of the deaths are >75, 98% are >65, the avreage age of the deceased is 79.4 years old but if we look only at women their average age was 84.2 years (South Korea life expectancy is 82 years) and we counted every death as a coronavirus related death if the patient tested positive, but most of them died for pre-existing conditions, while other countries are not counting them if other conditions where already present (and I imagine old people at the hospital are there because they are already ill)

So I must say that despite our own indiscipline, bad luck was a very strong factor in what happened

BTW Spain is already looking worse than us at their same day