Originally Posted by
BNEA320
Virtually no one is dying in OZ or NZ of corona, but it's very dangerous driving cars on our now very busy roads, relatively.
There are reasons virtually no-one in OZ or NZ are dying of corona, but two great isolated (to the rest of the world) countries to pick. New Zealand have a slightly better recovery rate than Australia considering populations.
Other countries not so isolated have vastly worse figures than Oz & NZ, both in total numbers and recovery rates.
Singapore
appeared to have the virus under control and has been held up as a model to the world in how to beat COVID-19.
April 14 there was 3,252 cases - today less than 4 weeks later 22,460 cases including 753 in the past 24 hours. That said they are doing exceptionally well with recoveries and I assume that is due to the health system capabilities.
If Australia or New Zealand had a seven fold increase in cases in a month, expect a far greater than 7 x increase in our current death rate. We simply have our limited resources spread over large areas to be able deal with clusters outside capital city limits.