Trump’s bans were a joke, never stopped traffic from China nor elsewhere, all they did was ban Chinese nationals from coming here
Now there’s Trump’s big mistake, he let the States handle the virus. Trump declares a war on the virus, refers to himself as a war time general, and then abandons that leadership.
We had States competing not only against themselves in securing needed medical supplies, but also foreign entities and even the Federal Gov’t, as one Governor put it, it was like buying equipment on Craigslist. States don’t have their own CDC, nor do they have the resources or financing the Federal Gov’t possesses. And to make matters even worse, not only did Trump go it on their own, he attacked States for their approach, working in opposition to their efforts
Trump f*cked up from the jump, consequently the economy dumped and we have hundreds of thousands of deaths and counting