You are reading a single comment by @miro_o and its replies.
Click here to read the full conversation.
London Fixed Gear and Single-Speed is a community of predominantly fixed gear and single-speed cyclists in and around London, UK.
This site is supported almost exclusively by donations. Please consider donating a small amount regularly.
miro_o
I don't know if it's equal proportionally, but I doubt it. London is an international travel hub, global financial centre, incredibly popular tourist destination, and very easily accessible to a huge number of people comparatively. But even if it were, it's a question of opportunity to transmit as much as (more than?) proportion. Absolute numbers matter in this case. Especially once density is added to the equation. You drop 10 ill people into a city vs 1 you'll have a much more difficult time responding. Now make that city 10x larger. Now increase the density n times.
Edit - a quick Google says there were fewer than 4 million international visitors to NZ in 2018. 11 million passengers used Eurostar the same year.