The reason socialist countries were successful was entirely that they already have meaningful controls around the movement of people in the country. There were liberal capitalist countries that handled well too, and the biggest similarities was having populations just being isolated from the virus by default.
You have overlooked one point: "massively restricted freedom of movement" requires government and the public respect for science and facts
South Korea is a good example. Their government respects science and uses technology to track movement. When religious organizations started gatherings in ignorance of science, the government took strong measures to stop gatherings, that is how you beat the epidemic
The reason socialist countries were successful was entirely that they already have meaningful controls around the movement of people in the country. There were liberal capitalist countries that handled well too, and the biggest similarities was having populations just being isolated from the virus by default.
You have overlooked one point: "massively restricted freedom of movement" requires government and the public respect for science and facts South Korea is a good example. Their government respects science and uses technology to track movement. When religious organizations started gatherings in ignorance of science, the government took strong measures to stop gatherings, that is how you beat the epidemic