And Taiwan, of course, along with New Zealand and other democratic countries, proved conclusively that this is not the case. Because lockdowns or takedowns and censorship, any top-down shutdowns, actually put people in a decontextualized position, where people do not actually know what’s going on. And therefore, their innovation, their creativity cannot contribute to the counter pandemic efforts, and so the authoritarian regimes may, of course, succeed for a while but eventually, as the virus mutates, their co-creation and innovation do not adapt in return. And therefore, that narrative fell down around last year.

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