If you want success have a look at Taiwan. Have been doing a bit of reading / watching on how they have tackled CV19. It is fascinating to say the least. If you have a bit of time, look up at Audrey Tang, she has done numerous interviews to explain how they have been successful in tackling it so far.
A few interesting points, mostly centres around use of technology, but also how they function as a society:
1) "Government has to trust their people with open data, and not ask people to blindly trust the government." Example used was that they have an app that shows mask stock levels at pharmacies to prevent panic buying. It is updated every 30 seconds.
2) Each ministry has a comedian working for them. Within an hour, they can generate humourous videos to counter any disinformation, and when its released it goes viral and floods their social media. Humour over rumour.
3) They have a 24/7 live stream where important messages can be communicated to the public at any given time.
4) 12 ministries that have influence over social economic policies have "reverse mentorship". Each of these ministries has 2 mentors, who are members of the public and are under 35 years of age.
All of these help to maintain social cohesion to tackle a pandemic.
Also facinating to learn they have a national referendum day. Citizens can propose laws via referendums at the national and local levels.
Imagine if we had that.......
