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Is Australia a "tiny island nation"?
by kaishiro 6y ago
Is Australia a "tiny island nation"?
- Sophistifunk 6y agoPretty much, we just happen to be on a big (empty) island.
- kaishiro 6y agoAfter having lived through the lockdown in Melbourne myself, I think it's pretty unfair to the people here to suggest that the reason the cases are so low is because it's just "a big empty island", and not the result of the fairly hard lockdown that the people here had to endure.
- sitkack 6y agoThink of the Wallabys!
- CRConrad 6y agoThe GP didn't say it was because Australia is geographically large, it said it was because Australia is geographically isolated and population-wise comparatively “tiny”.
- Sophistifunk 6y agoProbably a coincidence that overzealous governments are locking people down the world over and it's only working in AU/NZ then.
- buzzert 6y agoYes. The population of Australia is about the same as the greater Los Angeles metro area (25.36 million vs. 23.86 million)
- kaishiro 6y agoI'm still unclear as to what you're asserting. Is it that the US was destined to fair this abysmally due to their special mix of circumstances?
- tomjakubowski 6y agowhat does a country's population size have to do with it? if you mean density is a factor, that's surely only true at a local scale (cities with lots of people mixing every day, crowding into subways, elevators, and cramped factories), and not averaged over a vast area such as a country? Australia has cities as dense and populated as US cities, and with a few exceptions (eg SF) the American ones suffered much worse outbreaks.