Easy to say for someone living on an island of 268,000 sq. Kms with just 5mil people and geographically distant from the world's trade centers. The US is the economic engine with unparalled freedom of movement. We take in more legal immigrants than anyone in the world. As a result of being the crossroads of movement of people, unfortunately we expose ourselves to ideas, cultures, commerce and yes disease from far flung places. Those freedoms do often come with a price. I'll take that risk gladly over regimes such as China, who will likely be controlling your daily life in the not so distant future, maybe (but where did that virus originate again?) with more safety, but certainly with fewer of the freedoms that you apparently don't value that much anyway. .
geographic distance doesn’t matter - people travel by planes now.
you’re like the kid asserting his right to stick a fork in the power socket.
The reality is your government has been a disaster, on nearly everything, and you would break in two before you admitted that, because freedumb.
You are misinformed about immigrants. You have the most foreign-born, but some of them are over 100 years old. Per year, for the last ten or so, your immigration rates are nowhere near the most per head.
As to China, the US always has to have a boogeyman, Trump has made China your latest.
I guess when your entire society is based on making war, you’ve always got to have somethin* to keep the rubes fooled.
it seems to be working.