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I see this response trotted out a lot, and the best response to it, I find, is Vietnam......
You do realize that the reason why New Zealand was able to barely have Covid cases was because it's a small island that could quite simply shut it's borders near indefinitely while the US could not right? Shockingly, when you can prevent anyone coming in nigh indefinitely your case totals will be smaller then a country which can't.
High population, high population density, land border with China.
293k cases, 96 million population. That's, what, a 0.3% infection rate? I think I have the math right there.
We have geographical advantages. They do not fully account for our success. The approach matters.