Please don't post in the flamewar style to HN, let alone start nationalistic flamewars here.

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> The truth is, no nation has a good answer to this new virus.

Yeah, that's true. Nobody is doing well, and South Korea is also having an outbreak as well.

> Get off your high horse.

I'm not here to brag about my country, I have enough problems with the current government here. What I'm asking is the reason why the US and Japan gov is doing nothing.

> Pres. Mun Jaein failed to put stops on people flowing in from China

AFAIK, Korea and Japan boyh banned people from coming from the Wuhan-district; they didn't ban everyone from China - which makes the three countries the same level. Also, AFAIK no Chinese people occurred secondary infection, every infection case was from a Korean citizen that came from China - which means blocking the Chinese wouldn't have helped.

> Handing out masks and doing drive-in clinics are just a publicity stunt in S.Korea to look like they're controlling the spread.

So, you think masks/fast tests are ineffective and they can't help controlling the spread?

> Don't just give me numbers, give me info how those numbers were acquired.

What info do you think isn't provided yet?

Edit: Got feedback that the US did ban every Chinese (not just from Wuhan), so removed the inaccurate mention.

>> AFAIK no Chinese people occurred secondary infection

I've seen reports this has happened, but the medical reporting is saying the person(s) may not have completely recovered before showing signs of the infection again. I saw two interviews with doctors who related the infection has ups and downs and while someone may have been feeling better - they might have thought they were over it, when in fact, they really weren't.

The reporting on this is all over the map and most of the stuff I've read is pretty tentative in what they actually know and can document as fact.

US did ban all non-US citizens that have traveled to China in the past 14 days, not just Wuhan-district.

Thanks for the info, edited.

Testing is a critical part of controlling the outbreak. It's not just a publicity stunt.

The OP is absolutely right to be appalled at how little testing the US is doing compared to South Korea.

Also your "get off your high horse" comment is not constructive, and is against HN guidelines[1], which ask:

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American here. Get off your own high horse - you're embarrassing us. The US response needs to get better, fast. We're lucky that we've been relatively isolated so far. But if we don't learn from the experiences of other countries closer to the source, we're wasting that good luck.

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