Originally Posted by
ATC Watcher
Indeed . As whole areas/continents have not yet started to be widely infected and do not have the same medical facilities and political resources to contain the infection . Nobody is going to travel voluntarily there for a long time ..
The hope is that countries that are at a comparable level and relax some domestic restrictions should be more comfortable reopening borders in a selective way, e.g. with visitors from other similarly safe places.
The OP argued for gradual, parity-based lifting of bans, which makes a lot of sense. This way, travel between lower-risk countries should not be prevented for much longer.