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Why Australia in particular? I don't really feel like they're all that similar to the US.
by pochamago 6y ago
Why Australia in particular? I don't really feel like they're all that similar to the US.
- ginko 6y agoOther than Canada I can't think of a country more similar to the US than Australia.
- pochamago 6y agoI feel like there are a lot of pandemic relevant factors that are pretty different. 25m people vs 300m. Island nation, less international travelers, very different climate during the opposite season.
- threeseed 6y agoa) Is Canada and Mexico affecting or is somehow responsible for the disastrous way that the US is handling COVID-19 ? Otherwise it’s a moot point. b) Number of international travellers is irrelevant given that the policy in Australia was to quarantine ALL visitors for 14 days. Same policy that the UK has now adopted and you can’t argue that they don’t have a lot of international travellers. Again it is simply bad policy. c) Climate is not that different to many parts of the US right now. It’s not like it’s winter versus summer. Fairly mild temperatures in both countries right now.
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- dgzl 6y agoSimilar in what ways? Aus is an island country whose societal composition and Constitutional rights are nothing like ours. I wouldn't say they're very similar at all.
- ginko 6y agoEnglish speaking, lots of space, common law..
- votepaunchy 6y agoYes, but Australia has kangaroos and the Us doesn’t. What does English have to do with COVID—19?
- ginko 6y agoSo what country do ou think is more similar culturally to the US, then? Or is your point just that America is Special and can't be compared to anyone?
- jwalgenbach 6y agoWhy don't you choose one that has approximately the same population and same population density -- that's why choosing an individual U.S. state might be a better choice because the U.S. is large and has a wide range of population densities. The key point here is transmission of an infectious disease, so to get a proper comparison, you need to start with approximately the same probabilities of people infecting one another. That begins with proximity. Comparing the U.S. and Australia doesn't work because of that.
- 101404 6y agoAh yes, because language is the most important reason to get an infectious disease... Am I here on HN or in r/worldnews?
- ginko 6y agoI didn't talk about the probability to get COVID. Just the cultural similarities in general.
- HideousKojima 6y agoMaybe they think Coronavirus is caused by the vocal chord parasites from Metal Gear Solid 5