@jwildeboer Not that I am going to dissect this too much, but what's your lament specifically about?
When I hear how they do it in China, I certainly am not ready to accept living in a society mimicking their ways of manipulation and isolationism. No clue how they do it in say Indonesia, or so, but I would also not have much trust in precision of reporting from India, or Bangladesh.
My personal guess would be that those plots you sent to a large extent reflect western societies being 1) open to the outside, as well as within; and 2) high degree of testing/diagnosis/reporting.
It's actually easy to achieve low profiles in such plots (as witnessed by many countries): close your eyes, stop testing and you are good.
So what are those lessons we should learn in Europe?
@jwildeboer I am trying to check excess mortality as a perhaps more useful indicator: https://ourworldindata.org/excess-mortality-covid and you know what I found? It seems most interesting Asian countries do not report 🤔 .