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Asian countries have handled COVID better because they acted on lessons from previous outbreaks such as SARS, and did the hard work to do key things such as normalize mask wearing.
Western countries are recklessly doing the opposite and making us more vulnerable to future pandemics by increasing stigmatization of masks and banning them.
Yeah... up to a point.
But pre-covid there was also a WRONG dogma which was widely accepted by western public health professionals.
It was assumed that airborne transmission doesn't happen (instead it's all by contact, so "wash your hands"). Pre-covid, this was the mainstream view among westerm infectious disease specialists, but it's WRONG.
The error came from confusing two particle size thresholds: 5 µm to enter the lung directiy, and 100 µm to remain airborne.