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1) Multiple small islands, thanks, that together approach the size of Great Britain. 2) A small island nation with large amounts of of foreign tourists You mak
by EdwardDiego 7y ago
1) Multiple small islands, thanks, that together approach the size of Great Britain.
2) A small island nation with large amounts of of foreign tourists
You make it sound we live on Pitcairn Island, which is rather overly simplistic.
IMO, it was the timing of our lockdown - we went into lockdown before community transmission was established, which kept it limited to clusters.
- rangibaby 7y agoWhat’s the population of NZ compared to GB?
- tomhoward 7y ago(I'm Australian, and very much pro-NZ except for when a cricket match is being played). NZ has 7.3% of UK's population. Auckland has about 1/4 the population density of London's. NZ's airports have have approx 7% the number of annual passenger movements as UK, and that's before you count the significant numbers of travellers who enter the UK by road or rail. When the virus started to spread internationally, NZ and Australia were in summer and early autumn, whereas London in recent months has had the same cool winter/early spring conditions that Wuhan, Milan, Madrid, Korea and northern US have had when their outbreaks were most severe. I agree NZ and Australia have done well to contain our outbreaks. But we've been aided by infinitely more favourable conditions than the UK and US.
- disgruntledphd2 7y agoWell, at least you didn't have an open border with one of the latest countries to lock down in Europe, like we did in Ireland. Unfortunately, we can't close the border with Northern Ireland for political reasons, so it looks like the island of Ireland won't be able to eliminate Covid-19. To be fair, we should have stopped inbound/outbound travel much earlier (like NZ did) but I suspect concerns around EU law may have driven that.