Oh don't worry, I get it, Singapore had a much better outcome, you think that was a result of the government response, I think that the government response had little impact on the outcome and other factors are at play.
Quite simply it is not plausible that differences in outcome on a continental scale are the result of government response, there are simply too many governments and too many different responses for that to be the case (and remember that a lot of European governments thought they'd done well in the first wave and then faced disaster second time around).
The real reasons that Asia seems to have fared well (outside of Russia anyway) remain a matter for science to discover, a process that may take years, I suspect that:
- climate is likely to be a major factor, with the virus struggling to transmit outside of cold environments (not implausible for something that originated in a cave);
- previous exposure to something similar might've offered protection;
- there might be genetic factors at play, and;
- god knows what other X-factor might be invovled .