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Originally Posted by nomadking
Germany started their lockdown on 22nd March, UKs was announced on 23rd. Not a great difference. Sweden is yet to have a similar lockdown. As Germany had less cases in the first place, they have the spare testing capacity. Not all areas of Germany are as affected, eg Eastern Germany.
It all going to depend on points of introduction of the virus and the sorts of connections those "points" make with others.
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German states however took their own actions prior to this date. School closures (13 March) and banning mass gatherings of more than 1000 people (10 March) in North Rhine-Westphalia where the outbreak appears to have originated in Germany.
I’m unsure where your assertion Germany had less cases in the first place comes from - on 1st March we had 36 reported cases to Germany’s 130.
Not all of the UK is equally affected - London is much worse than Scotland. That’s a red herring. Considering the western German outbreak is closely intertwined with northern Italian I doubt anyone would consider the 9 hour drive from Lombardy to Cologne “global jet setting”.