Americans enamoured with New Zealand's handling of COVID don't even know the extent of how good it is: our most recent small cluster of cases was followed in such detailed contact tracing and gene swabbing that they traced 2 cases to a trash can lid & an elevator button.
As an American who is a NZ resident I'm daily grateful to be in the safest place possible while also impossibly heartbroken to be separated from my family who has been isolating for 7 months to protect my immunocompromised family member.