Here is how I make sense of what doesn’t make sense to you. From Day One, U.S. politicians have blamed this on The Outsiders. It was the China Virus, and then it spread outside China because the Europeans didn’t close their borders to the Chinese, and American kept traveling to Europe. Now the U.S. is arrogant enough to keep its borders closed to The Outsiders, even when they open their borders to Americans (and even though the U.S. has worse statistics than they do). And it punishes potential U.S. international travelers with a policy that says, if you leave and catch COVID, you can just damn well stay on The Outside. And unless the international trip is really short, the U.S. will know if you caught it since you have to pay for the test to get back in. And you have to tell the airline your health status, medical privacy be damned. You left The Homeland, so you forfeited all those rights.
Make sense now? I think it was STN that said his kids and their friends had expressed a preference for Spanish beaches over Florida. I suspect if the politicians in the U.S. continue their arrogance, the U.S. will lose many young people as potential tourists.
Of course the U.S. borders should be opened on a reciprocal basis to Canadians at the same time the Canadian borders opened to the U.S. But it isn’t logic being applied here, it is political pandering to those who haven’t ever left their county, let alone their country.