It is also a problem of scale. New Zealand has really 2 truly international airports (Auckland and Christchurch). The United States has over 50. In 2017, the U

It is also a problem of scale. New Zealand has really 2 truly international airports (Auckland and Christchurch). The United States has over 50. In 2017, the United States saw over ~70,000,000, tourists through her ports of entry, while New Zealand saw 3,700,000 . These statistics are for tourist entries, so they don't even include repatriating citizens who traveled internationally. To institute the same quarantine rules in the United States would be untenable. Furthermore, inbound travelers to the United States _are_ supposed to quarantine for 14 days, there is just no enforcement mechanism. And regarding the per capita infections, the most important figure is tests/1M population. We both know that testing doesn't cause infections, and tests only tell you what already exists. However, it is equally as true that absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. So just as some nations may be reporting lower per capita infection rates, they also have a lower per capita test rate. You can't, with a straight face, say that India, which has performed 91,359 tests per 1m has fewer cases than the United States, which has performed 516,656 tests per 1M population. Put another way, 50% of Americans have been tested at one point in the past year, whereas only 9% of Indians have been tested. Before just shitting on everything and having strongly held opinions strongly held, actually research the data and understand the tectonics underlying the world's response. It is not nearly as black and white as you and others seem to think it is. Tourism data from Wikipedia* (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_New_Zealand https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_New_Zealand and (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_the_United_States#21st_century https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tourism_in_the_United_States#2...) Test data from https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ * It seems that the "Total" row for New Zealand may only be the top 12 countries, but the difference is so large that it hardly matters.