Comments by "annoyed aussie" (@annoyedaussie3942) on "US is reopening its borders to Europe, the global epicenter of Covid-19" video.

You can't reopen something that was never shut, not a single border was ever shut to US citizens and permanent residents travelling to the US without quarantine.
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In response to the replies, we can't change what has already occurred and my opinion is should have done one or the other , partial restrictions of the US achieved nothing. Let's look at economic impact at the government level a budget deficit last calendar year of 15% of GDP for the US and 7.5% for Australia which had strict travel restrictions and real quarantine. For the social and health including mental health impacts they have actually been worse in the the US compared to Australia. If the US was going to not care about a virus spreading rampantly better to have never had the partial restrictions at all , although the best policy was harsh restrictions for both health and economic outcomes, the Western Pacific region of WHO has less than 10% of the death toll on a per capita basis than PAHO Pan-American Health Organization region even if you eliminate China in the statistic. Economically on average we have performed much better too. This was known at the start of the pandemic, one of the US Fed reserve people pointed out that the states that had harsher restrictions during the 1918 flu pandemic recovered more quickly.
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