Originally Posted by tdiddy23

I would be careful comparing Wyoming to New Zealand. New Zealand has a real chance of eliminating the virus, I'm not sure what the plan would be long term (we were debating it up thread a while back) but they are in a fairly unique circumstance. They have a relatively small population (not compared to Wyoming but compared to Australia or Taiwan). When you are talking about eradication it is total number of cases that matters more than cases per million in my opinion; so it will be somewhat easier to do for NZ then Aus or Tawain. Geographically, its harder to envision locking yourself down and controlling borders when your are in the middle of a continent as opposed to an island in the south pacific. There are a number of Canadian provinces in similar circumstances. From a travel perspective, just to get to an international destination these people would have to mingle with others in other US/Canadian airports (assuming not a private jet) .

In terms of reopening locally and getting the economy going however I fully agree with sentiments