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Originally Posted by Chicks
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Not cloth masks. They stockpiled medical/surgical masks and dispensed them. On top of that, Taiwan has a long history of using masks in public because of air pollution. And they're an island nation able to effectively limit travel to and from the island, contract trace everyone that has arrived. In short, they were able to keep all of the cases outside of their country and they had everything necessary to quarantine anyone that came in.
Taiwan was impacted by SARS-CoV, SARS-CoV-2 wasn't their first rodeo. South Korea and China the same. South Korea is more effective than China because of the North Korean buffer effectively making South Korea landlocked like Taiwan.