It’s a common laowai observation that Taiwanese people are pretty good at dealing with routine stuff, but astoundingly bad at thinking outside the box.
Do you really think it’s likely that Taiwan is going to come up with “something” to get the numbers down, while everyone else on the planet failed to do so - or at least failed to do so without paying a terrible cost in ruined lives?
Could we not at least consider the possibility that nothing can be done about infection in general terms, but we probably can do an awful lot to prevent people dying?