I agree, the way the US has collectively handled this pandemic is heart-rending. We know better, and we have the resources to do better, and we just haven't.

I visited Chile with my parents when I was one and a half (don't remember) and 21, which was great. They didn't visit between those times because my mom was worried about being able to get back out with the regime there, even as a naturalized US citizen, since she was born there. My parents continued visiting fairly regularly after that, pre-Covid. They like to travel.