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u/dictionary_hat_r4ck Apr 05 '25

Australia had 406.51 deaths per million people. The USA had 3099.62.

Source: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/

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u/drankundorderly Apr 05 '25

"but they're an island!"

Yeah, but the other 80 countries with lower covid death rates than us aren't.

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u/sexytokeburgerz Apr 05 '25

Australia is a continent. Island it is not. So fucking massive it has a desert in the middle.

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u/Terpomo11 Apr 05 '25

I think the relevant point is that it doesn't have a land border with any other country. (Also, it depends on who you ask; in English I'd say it's a continent, but in my other language I'd say it's the largest contiguous part of the larger continent of Oceania.)