[c0nsilience]

I agree. NZ isn't very well traveled compared to the U.S. or most of western Europe. And NZ's population is like 1/20th of Los Angeles County. It's not surprising that the little island handled the virus so well--it'd be more surprising if they didn't.

[rasz]

>NZ's population is like 1/20th of Los Angeles County.

you are wrong by only one order of magnitude

[moltar]

NZ has more per capita tourists than US.

NZ population: 4.89

NZ tourists: 3.7 (2017 figure)

US population: 328.2

US tourists: 79.26 million international visitors to the U.S. This figure includes visitors from overseas, Mexico and Canada.

[lostlogin]

What do you mean when you say ‘NZ isn't very well traveled compared to the U.S.’?

I had a look about and according to the things I can find, New Zealanders travel abroad about twice as much as US Americans. And keep in mind that pretty much everywhere a New Zealander can go is more infected than NZ.

We also have a lot less international clout than the US and less money. This matters.

As a country we have less people per square km than the US, perhaps by half. But the US is not vastly more populated the New Zealand when examined as a whole, and USA is nowhere near the top when you order countries by population density.

Our population is about 1/66th (5 million versus 330 million) that of the US, but our death toll is 1/8,900th (25 versus 224,000). I don’t believe the reasons you list explain this. In protecting its citizens New Zealand has done better than the average and the US has done worse.

https://www.traveller.com.au/the-worlds-biggest-travellers--...

[glaucon]

Gee, LA county has 100 million people in it ? Who knew ...