Countries like South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Japan, New Zealand and Australia got to manage the epidemic much better and were able to return to normalcy a lot better.

Please don't make me defend Cuomo but he wasn't an authoritarian as you've described. 

Another day of zero cases of community transmission of COVID-19 in all of Australia.

https://www.9news.com.au/world/coronavirus-australia-zero-community-transmission-despite-highest-global-death-tally/1648f9f6-5fdb-413c-b9e6-09685be264d8

The main threat to us now is cases from returning overseas travelers, which have to go through a mandatory hotel quarantine. A leak in this system produced the second wave we suffered from June through to October.

People like this are the reason we will never get rid of it
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/b-c-man-who-kept-leaving-his-home-arrested-charged-for-repeated-violations-of-quarantine-act-police-1.5176354

In a video posted to YouTube the day before Parhar's arrest, a man with the same name spoke at an anti-mask rally in downtown Vancouver, talking about his recent trip to the United States to attend Flatoberfest, which is a conference for people who believe the Earth is flat.

In the video, Parhar says he was given a form on the plane before landing at Vancouver International Airport. "They give you a form that you gotta fill out. Now you gotta quarantine," he says."They call it 'quarantine,' it's not really quarantine, it's self-imprisonment … put yourself in a jail and stay there. Don't interact with your friends, family, whatever. Stay inside and don't have a life."

Parhar also says in the video that police came to his house multiple times after he returned to Canada and on one occasion he wasn't home, so he got a ticket. "I go home … I live my life, because I'm not going to put myself in a prison, because I'm a free man with God-given rights," he says. Police say Parhar has been charged with three counts of contravening a section of the Quarantine Act. He's currently still in custody.


We should have mandatory hotel quarantine as well, but this is it for us
Starting later this month, international travellers whose final destination is in Canada will be required to submit details about their quarantine plan and contact information electronically through the ArriveCAN app before boarding a flight into the country.

While the border is officially closed, you can't stop nutcases from leaving and you can't deny citizens re-entry either. Heck, you just need to own some property here to get a free pass into the country or say you're traveling on to Alaska.

That guy likely has the IQ of a potato.
And ontop of that is egotistical...... that combination is why Covid is so hard to deal with.
(tbh the egoist, is more of a issue, than the "not to bright" part)

Alot of people out there, dont understand the concept, of putting up with small disconforts (staying isolated for abit, in self quarantine), so you arnt part of the issue. Egotist. Why should I be bothered? well because if the majority of people arnt, theres no way to avoid spread.

France + Italy + Belgium.... make me sad..... those infection numbers (compaired to their pop) is nuts.

US is clearly growing too, 109k.... ouch.

Per US CDC

US is trying real hard to keep their lead over Mexico in deaths per capita but it looks like it'll be in vain.

USA has excess mortality of over 300,000 this year.
The vast majority of that is due to Covid19.

The reported 233k is probably way lower than actual number is.

It's pretty bad here in Switzerland as well. We had a good summer but it seems like people just stopped caring after that.