I'm very interested in why people think the difference is the system of government, and not other factors like previous pandemic experience and culture.
The most robust liberal democracies handled covid far better than non-lib/dem.
Australia and New Zealand were astoundingly effective.
It is imperial power (US/UK) that seem unable to momentarily pause worker exploitation for the betterment of public health.
A lot of my expat friends in Taiwan Vietnam and Thailand all assumed Asia would get crushed by the virus and west would be better. But it’s hard to figure out any one reason or a set of ideas to explain it fully