the countries with the best covid responses are China, Taiwan, Vietnam, etc

ok, i’m not necessarily saying that these countries don’t have the best responses to coronavirus, they very well might have, we can’t tell with absolute certainty, however, i think you should consider the rather suspicious inverse correlation between the number of coronavirus cases per 1 million people and journalistic freedom index and government corruption index

(this isn’t the case for all countries of course, but it is for many of the “best” responders to coronavirus)