engineer sharath naik created ewon using a raspberry pi powered by google assistant. currently follow you around the house. now, as lockdowns are starting to ease we‘re also beginning to see the economic consequences. and questions are being asked as to whether covid—19 could have been handled differently. well, one part of the world that managed to keep things business as usual, more or less, is taiwan. with direct flights to wuhan and densely packed cities, the strategy promised to be a disaster. but no. by the 20th of may taiwan had had just seven covid—19 deaths. so where did all go so right? back in 2003 taiwan faced another epidemic which also originated on the chinese mainland — sars. this time around, the government immediately began testing and tracing specific parts of the population using, for example, travel data to see who‘d just returned from wuhan together with health data pointing to those with recent health problems. those who were quarantined were monitored using location data from their mobile phones. the virus was stopped in its tracks before it ha