@Wiimeiser
You don’t understand how loss aversion works, and don’t seem to have any grasp of basic economic theory.
The macroeconomic environment of a nation state is a continuous serise of transactions, based upon a function normally composed of accrued debt, available debt, and gross domestic product with losses and gains occurring simultaneously across multiple concurrent situations and markets. Loss aversion principle can therefore only be applied at the contract level, varying from transaction to transaction. In no way could loss aversion explain a situation where the borders of a nation state stay closed indefinitely.
If anything it’s the opposite.
The state is likely experiencing a net loss of income due to the border closures, and would thus be motivated by future losses of said income when compared back to pre-pandemic levels. The aversion would work against the closures, not for them.
