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Re:London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain by CodeGlitch on Saturday December 19, 2020 @04:10PM (#25481231)
I'm not sure that's completely fair. Countries vary so much that putting it down to "the government" ignores all the other factors. You're examples are all on the southern hemisphere, with mostly nice weather where people spend more time outside. General population health also has a massive effect. Here in the UK we are a nation of overweight old people, but fat-shaming is a thing so that's only going to get worse.
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Re:London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain by mprovost on Saturday December 19, 2020 @04:57PM (#25481621)
But those antipodean countries are all coming out of their winter. So they got through the worst of it during the coldest part of the year, with more people indoors, and only now are getting into summer.
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Re:London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain by CodeGlitch on Saturday December 19, 2020 @05:38PM (#25481941)
I'm not sure about those other countries, but an Australian "winter" is very different from a British winter.

As I said - there are other factors here (many more than I mentioned) - that you can't compare countries so easily.

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Re:London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain by umanwizard on Saturday December 19, 2020 @07:29PM (#25482725)
Agree with you in principle, except that Japan and Korea are at temperate latitudes in the northern hemisphere.
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Re:London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain by CodeGlitch on Sunday December 20, 2020 @04:13AM (#25484968)
Not sure why you are all focusing on my example with the weather. Like I said there are many factors involved here, with the weather being one of them.
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Re:London put in emergency lockdown as U.K. fights new strain by umanwizard on Sunday December 20, 2020 @09:09AM (#25486276)
I completely agree with your overall point, that there are too many confounding factors to reliably attribute anything to government actions. I guess I just couldn't resist the urge to nit.
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