The US is about to become, if not the envy of the world, at least the leading example of what the world will look like in a post-vaccine era. bengroundwater's view travellerau covid covid19 pandemic uspolitics
Any day now, something strange is going to happen to our perception of the US: the script is going to be flipped. The nation will go from basket case to boomtown. It will morph from pariah to powerhouse.
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Advertisement Because the whole world will eventually look like the US, with its open borders and vaccinated populations. There will still be cases of COVID-19 in the States, of course. But this is the way the world will have to be, the way we'll have to survive, the way Australians will eventually have to live, too: with vaccinations, and with COVID-19.
When you're planning your post-pandemic travels, this is a country that you can and should include. That seemed crazy six months ago, but now it's a reality. The US is going to be open for business soon, and it's a country that will come to represent the new normal, a country that you are going to want to visit again.