There were, uh, people arguing, 12 months ago, that this characterization was bad:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22908490

Taiwan's had 1070 cases! And concerts and mostly normal life.

(do note that I'm not calling for endless lock downs there, I'm calling for control measures that we didn't really work very hard to put into place; we could have done a lot more to reduce household and workplace spread and so on)