It's fairly easy to prevent stuff from entering the country when you are an island. Singapore also had no problem in doing it. Notice some kind of pattern?

> China stopped it and they have heaps of people

Do you trust any data coming from China? Because North Korea also claimed they had zero death from COVID.

Also, it's fairly clear by now that there is some genetic component with COVID: there are less death in asian ethnic groups compared to others, so having less deaths in China/Japan/Korea is consistent in that regard anyway.

> The US failed spectacularly

Comparing to death rates across Europe, not that much different actually. Media brainwashing much?