A tale of two nations: #South Korea and the #Philippines had very different levels of preparedness and conditions going into #COVID19 pandemic and used different #policy tools to cope. This timeline isn't meant to be comprehensive

Even with a #masstesting regime in place, #SouthKorea saw its number of cases rise dramatically when a "super spreader" infected church-goers in Daegu province, which had to be placed under #quarantine to prevent the spread

The #Philippines came at it from the opposite side of the spectrum. Lacking a history of coping with similar pandemics, it imposed a #lockdown in Luzon to stop the spread and is undertaking #masstestingPH from next week

This potentially comports with the concept of contextual #rationality as posited by @RobynVidra - national bodies acting rationally but constrained by the cognitive and social grammar afforded them by their differing histories and cultures?