Not only would they just continue living as before, they wouldn't even realize something had changed.

I guess you win this game.

Yea, they basically already self isolate sooo it'd just be another Tuesday for them lmao

Just make sure those pesky British stay out of your potatoes

I'd say we'd need to make a bunch of biofuels to fill the immediate shortfall to keep tractors moving but as you say we've plenty of really good quality land, water, wind. Lots of chemical and medical processing capability once we have the raw ingredients for medicines etc.

Main medium term issue would be mineral and metal mining and processing as we're short on that but yeah overall think we'd be basically fine.

Straya^

Outstanding reference. Meanwhile, the rest of us are still on islands where people argue about whether helping each other is economically feasible.

Ah yes. This island earth.

What's the smallest section of earth you would think could thrive in this scenario?

The secret to being a successful island is a greater landmass than most countries on Earth.

Was gonna say Australia too

1 - England is not an island, you mean Great Britain.

2 - Almost half the food eaten in the UK has been imported from overseas.

3 - A large proportion (it's difficult to get exact figures and it fluctuates) of energy is imported from abroad in the forms of oil and gas.

Great Britain, and the wider UK, has not been self sufficient for ~600 years relying on colonialism and a maritime empire to meet its needs and trade since it collapsed. If it had to rely on resources available within the island it would collapse in days.

a piece of land surrounded by water.

The first definition.

I guess that means continents are islands.

Does that mean now that we have the Panama canal that North and South America are separate islands?