I have been listening to the news and we are on track to be the worst hit country in the EU. This is partly due to a slow response by our government, but surely alot to do with our population density too which seems to be overlooked alot of the time?
I googled France, Spain and UK and France has the largest landsize, with over 65 million in population. Spain has the next biggest land size with 46 million in population and UK has the smallest land mass but the biggest population at over 66 million! So surely we were always going to be at a disadvantage?
I am not denying that after looking at spain and Italy, we should have locked down a week or two soonerand prepared better (althought they were right when they said if they did it too soon, people would give up and start ignoring rules when it mattered most) but why is this never mentioned? Does it not matter that we have half the last mass than other countries and the same population squished in living so close to each other?
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Is the number of cases due to population density aswell?
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Teacher12345 · 30/04/2020 18:23
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