Zeos wrote:
So looking at yesterdays numbers... the states allowed in have new cases/million population of 35, 21, 14, 6, 33, 10. (New York, New Jersey, Maine, Vermont, Conneticut, New Hampshire) The states others talk about in this thread have new cases of 96, 99, 153, 211, 260 - per million population (Ohio, Arizona, Texas, Florida, Georgia) So there may be some science to this.
If you're going to use new cases per million people as the primary criteria for entry, then compare to Costa Rica's numbers. Yesterday's new cases in Costa Rica were 950. That's about 190 per million. By that yardstick, most of the US is in better shape than Costa Rica (including Ohio, Arizona, and Texas by your numbers that were mentioned above. As a matter of fact, as of today, the only states worse than CR by that yardstick are Mississippi, Georgia, Nevada, Tennessee, North Dakota, Alabama, Arkansas, and Florida. All of the remaining 42 states have lower cases per million people than Costa Rica.) I would also point out that with a positivity rate exceeding 30% at present, Costa Rica's real numbers are likely to be much worse.
Even though Costa Rica may open, the real limiting factor in tourists coming back may not be the restrictions on states, the insurance costs, or the ability to get PCR test results within 48 hours of take-off. The real limiting factor may be that Costa Rica's infection rate may keep folks from going there (and possibly encountering quarantine on return). Costa Rica's numbers are presently on the rise and not looking good at all. (See
https://delfino.cr/2020/03/covid-19-en-costa-rica) And this cannot be logically blamed on tourists as tourists have been locked out while the cases have risen. Pops was absolutely right when he made the statement below:
Pops wrote:
Exactly what did keeping tourists out accomplish? The logic is we can't have people coming in from countries where the virus is raging and then spreading all over the country. This is the flaw in the logic. The virus is here and has been growing since day one.