Living in NZ it's struck me as unfortunate that the USA didn't do state-by-state what we did. It's true that NZ is surrounded by water, but US states, mostly of about the same size and population as NZ on average, are allowed to seal their borders in a pandemic, too. If Trump had overseen such an approach in March or earlier, he'd be cantering to an easy election win right now, the hero of the hour, just like our PM Jacinda Ardern who is up for near-certain re-election in September. (So actually I don't think Trump is as clever and Machiavellian wrt stealing the election as Umair sometimes suggests: that would have been the foolproof way to come out of this looking like FDR.) And certainly re the scale of the problem now in the USA, when it comes to reopening, it's gone from stamping out embers to opening the door on a backdraft it would most regrettably seem: (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backdraft).