Americans are now seen as global pariahs
Since 1945 the United States has been globally feared for its capability to incinerate the planet with nuclear weapons, even broadcast that threat as foreign policy and domestic manipulation, draining economic resources of social benefit for maintaining nuclear-triad options beyond compare, secretizing means and methods to deny public grasp of horrifically belligerent and expensive mass death technology except as grimmest headlines and heart-throbbing films.
Then atop this majestic USA planetary and space dominance a microscopic illegal immigrant virus cross-borders manifold layers of national security, outwitting most advanced science, medicine, armaments, intelligence, economics, the plethora of assurances and confidence that no threat is unconquerable.
Surprise, great-hearts and best minds, the USA is now feared globally for its threat to cause mass death by spreading Covid virii, even its military and spies are spreaders abroad and at home in magnitude and lethality far greater than terrorism, political ideology, election tampering, opioids, ignorance, fake news.
Covid sneers at the nuclear-triad as it gnaws the crews' and commanders' guts and brains, physically and psychologically, futile masks worn as faith-based amulets, reopenings enforced as sacrificial offerings to the slavemasters of "I don't care, do you?"
Americans are now seen as global pariahs, untouchables, leprosotic, genocidal, Typhoid Marys.
Keep out, the wealth-armored pitifuls hear at closed borders.