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I'm kind of surprised that being an island would help, actually. Is international travel into prosperous islands really less than into equally prosperous conti

• iso947 6y ago
  Very few people pass through NZ, it’s not like london or singapore or whatever. NZ doesn’t rely on cross border lorry drivers either, and is far enough away that any boats are quarantined
• luckylion 6y ago
  > Most long-distance travel is by air anyway. You can't land just anywhere on an island, but you can take lots of roads into large countries on a continent. Islands have much more control over arrivals than landlocked countries with lots of neighbors and very integrated road & train networks.
• odshoifsdhfs 6y ago
  New Zealand total passengers (all airports) per year is less than just JFK per year (59M JFK vs 43M all of NZ give or take)
• 317070 6y ago
  Trucking goods over land will spread a lot more covid than shipping over sea (with seamen no longer allowed to leave ship). That is the big factor I reckon. So islands will ship everything already, whereas most land-countries move a lot of goods with trucking, and spread the disease that way, even when land-borders are closed. International travel can be closed off with little repercussion.