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And Australia had the luxury of being an island nation with fewer major vectors of transmission where all of the big cities are spread far apart, what's your point?There you go. That wasn't too difficult. And to round off the discussion I'll give you a link which shows the death rates between our two countries.
Mortality Analyses - Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center
How does mortality differ across countries? Examining the number of deaths per confirmed case and per 100,000 population. A global comparison.coronavirus.jhu.edu
To save you looking it up, yours was about 5x that of Australia.
Burkina Faso and Zimbabwe had lower rates of covid deaths than both of our countries despite having sub-par healthcare systems and sub-par vaccine uptake.
New Zealanders tried to make similar claims...and I would explain to them that my home state of Ohio (considered a "fly-over state" by US standards), had 3 commuter cities that would their 2nd, 4th, and 5th most populous cities if transplanted onto their country) that are less than 45 mins apart.
It's not surprising that low population density countries (or countries where the major cities are very spread out) had an easier go of covid.
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