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Dood, you really do live in a paralle universe, don't you?

Taiwan's COVID situation was never that bad. It stayed relatively COVID-free for the better part of what... almost 2 years (?) before it finally hit home on a large scale. They pretty much closed off their incoming international passenger traffic, but the local Taiwanese economy didn't stop, except for the supply chain issues that affected every country in the world.

I am not familiar with Korea, other than that they got hit hard by COVID medically. So I won't comment on things I don't know about.

China did not provide any COVID era support to its people, and as a result, Chinese people used up all their savings to survive through the hard lockdowns, and when it came time to rebound, consumers and business owners simply had no money left to re-start their economy. Canada and much of the Western World provided financial support to its people and businesses, and as a result, when the economy opened up again, they were able to quickly rebound. The evidence is pretty clear about that.

COVID exposed many of the weaknesses of our healthcare system, but the covidiots and their mistreatment of our medical staff did a lot of harm to cause our healthcare staff to quit. IMO, that did far more damage to our fragile healthcare system than COVID had done.

And Argentina "going from textbook hyperinflation territory to one of the lowest in G20"? The latest monthly figure -- yes, it's at 2.7%. But at recently as last month, it was still as high as 25%. The overall annual inflation rate for 2024 is still 117.8%. He has done a good job in bringing it down from almost 300%, but they are not out of the woods yet. And IIRC, they have also significantly devalued their peso as part of the inflation-fighting strategy, so anything they have to import are still very expensive.