The first confirmed cases in the US and Australia of COVID-19 entered the country on January 15th vs 19th, respectively
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Replying to @PhilWMagness
The US has more international travel, but also ~8x the population. As you've already shown, per capita we have comparable or possible MORE travel in Australia, and more of ours comes directly from China
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Replying to @PhilWMagness
Would it? The Greater Sydney region, which people often ignorantly imagine is Sydney, has a very low population density. This does include some large national parks (one is the size of Liechtenstein) however
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The built urban area, however, is much more dense. Not quite as impressive as London or New York, more like Atlanta or similar. Inner city Sydney is as dense as NYC/London, with ~10,000 people per km^2
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Replying to @PhilWMagness
Yep, so roughly comparable. Sydney is definitely spread out, but it has extremely dense areas (I live in one) as well as massive national parks
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Replying to @PhilWMagness
I disagree. Sydney is a wonderful city of contrasts - very low-density outer suburbs, with <500 residents per km^2, and very dense inner suburbs with 9-10,000 residents per km^2pic.twitter.com/4ZHDK52nyt
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Anyway, now we're arguing semantics. It's still obviously absurd to call Australia a "remote Pacific Island" as the only reason we've had success with COVID-19
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Replying to @PhilWMagness
And if you want to call a country a remote Pacific Island, you should compare it to actual remote Pacific Islands such as Tuvalu, with 11,508 people and virtually no international travel
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End of conversation
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