And South Korea at 510/km2 and Taiwan at 651/km2...
My point is that all of this is devilishly multi-variate, and it will be a while before we can disentangle everything and determine what exactly works and why.
People saying "NZ's lockdowns worked" without actually having done the hard part is not helping.
Said from NZ, we did the hard hard part.
How do you think we eradicated community covid several times?
The "hard part" being crunching the numbers and working to falsify your hypotheses, not lockdowns in this context.
This would seem to be quite obviously correct. Perhaps this comment’s downvoters could explain why they disagree?
Re:The Covid Science Wars
by disgruntledphd2 on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @06:58AM
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And yet the UK is an island, and have done worse than France.
I guess my point is that this is a multi-faceted thing, and focusing on one predictor is likely to be misleading.
Misleading statistic. You need to look at the density of occupied land.
It's not misleading, it's just not as complete as it could be, because population density is a trivial statistic to determine and density of occupied land is much more difficult (for starters you need to define "occupied").
If you have stats on density of occupied land, I'm happy to work with that.
That’s a crazy metric. Is this a thing? How do you define it? Per km? Per metre? Or just by the footprints I make in my carpet? Each gives a very different answer.
The pop. density of NZ is 15/km2. The pop. density of France is 119/km2. France also shares land borders with 7 other countries.