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It's not like Great Britain is an island, after all. :)
by renaudg 6y ago
It's not like Great Britain is an island, after all.
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- nyokodo 6y agoThere are no tunnels between NZ and anywhere which can’t be said for Britain where the Channel Tunnel carried >10 million passengers per year in 2019. UK airports have traffic numbers 7 or 8 times as high as NZ airports. Sea transport and shipping into UK ports is far greater and easier than to NZ. I’m very glad NZ is COVID free but they got lucky by not having much community spread before the first lockdown and closing the border, and they are lucky by geography in this case.
- neilsense 6y agoAre you being purposefully silly in comparing the UK and NZ? You must realise there is a huge population difference, difference in number of elderly, excellent infrastructure both intra- and inter-city that allows spreading quickly, and between Heathrow + Gatwick, some of the busiest airports in the world that act as a hub between the West and the East. What the UK has gone through is unique to the UK and it is hard to easily compare it to other countries. It's bad, don't get wrong, and I wish that travel lockdowns would have happened sooner, but let's not ignore a huge amount of relevant data so you can have a dig.