collapsedsquid reblogged your post: After that exchange with @raginrayguns over the…
Do you think that’s because it’s a smaller island with a lot fewer people on it maybe?
I’m not sure what your point is there. You’re comparing different islands in a far off locations in a different state with different internal politics to tell me what exactly?
the idea that “a smaller island with a lot fewer people on it” would have some sort of mortality advantage doesn’t have any basis in fact, collapsedsquid, and I’m not sure where you got it from
Malta and Cyprus certainly didn’t get any sort of mortality boost just because they were small islands with few people on them
You can make a lot of systems work if they’re small enough that might not scale otherwise. (Singapore is small. Mauritius is small. Hong Kong is small. Norway is small.)
Though in this case it isn’t really the causative factor, IMO.
He might otherwise be arguing about restoration of political unity in China or something along those lines.