You know if your house is on fire and all you do is run outside and watch it burn chances are it's not just going to burn down your house but it will spread to your neighbors houses also. Quick actions keep that from happening and the only time that doesn't is if it's already to late.

Trying to stop the spread is crucial in any given emergency situation where you have that capability is key. This administrations quick action bought us time by shutting down flights coming out of China but unfortunately the democrats were busy calling him a isolationist racist xenophobe while simultaneously calling upon people to go about their lives as usual, attend festivals, go to China town, get on the subways, orange man bad. Even the Italians held a hug a Chinese tourist campaign....this is why the virus spread out of control in Italy and New York, it had nothing to do with PPE. In the meantime Trump was at least trying to throw water on the flames. He had to do that with limited supplies as it's true the Obama administration didn't reorder mask after the H1Ni epidemic, if he had the mask would have went back into a rotational system that replaced them every five years. It wasn't even the Trump administration that called the Obama administration out on it:

https://www.nationalinsiders.com/newt-gingrichs-question-for-biden-exposes-obama-admins-undeniable-role-in-n95-mask-shortage/

Despite all that it still wouldn't have been enough for the current crisis we are faced with. It certainly didn't help that one of the major distributors of the mask, 3M, were letting their distributors sell the mask to the highest bidder in foreign countries. Once caught there was a stop put to it but despite that this administration said from now on we'd get our fair share of these mask as if we didn't help stop the spread around the world this won't end for us as someone will just carry it back here and the whole process starts over again. That's because when a fire starts to spread you just don't fight one side of the fire you fight it from all angles.

We are so fortunate we have the current administration in place. While the democrats were still busy smoldering over their impeachment loss this administration was busy setting up military installations to get our people out of China and quarantined back into the US in a bid to keep people safe from further spread once they announced the travel ban. Then they did the next best thing and tried to help China put out the fire. Viewing what was happening in China they took up the best defenses actions they could implement on such a short notice of time so we wouldn't suffer the same consequences seen going on in China.

The world is at war, the world has to fight this together, in order to do that we have to share resources. This is no time for sitting around worrying about the JF Kennedy Center or the National Endowment of the Arts, actions like these in times of crisis only reinforces that the democrats would have sold us out down the road just as The World Health Organization has done and went sidestepping this whole crisis until millions of people were literally dying in the streets all in the name of being politically correct. Thank goodness we had an administration willing to say shut this shit down and shut it down now.