Well clearly something has failed when some countries have the pandemic under control for months now, and EU is riding waves.

Or we want to ignore success cases? Because neither the media or governance talks about it, don't even mention that are countries in economic recovery and they match countries that have the pandemic under control.

It's like living with the virus is bad for the economy.

I think a big part of it was public discourse, some faced this pandemic has a battle that must be won, others took it has an inconvenience. This second group, the majority, then went on to face issues like individual rights crises that resemble something like everyone is entitled to their RIGHTS, but somehow they forgot about DUTY and RESPONSABILITIES.

I know of two major examples:

* China and other countries using state surveillance and privacy infringement to control the virus.

* New Zealand which is a pretty sparsely populated isolated island.

Korea - tremendous testing and good mask adherence

Australia - long lockdowns

Singapore - probably falls in with China on state surveillance and privacy infringement

Taiwan - has been one of the best examples since the beginning, and a model that was followed by other countries successfully

Utilise the awesome powers of hindsight and backseat driving?

Because there isn't any good example in the past year?