I didn't expect him to close down the borders prior but South Korea had shown us the blueprint for a good approach and our leader went the opposite way.
They were completing tons of tests and when they found an infection that person's prior whereabouts were investigated and those who live near those hot spot areas were sent alerts about specific places where infections where found near them so they could be avoided. That's high levels of testing and very specific information shared with the public in almost real time.
We are in April now and testing here is still a debacle. The information we get is vague, contradicting, shitty sound bytes from press conferences that are now led by folks who got their positions through nepotism that are as much if not more campaigning and self congratulating as they are informative. "We're looking at that" "That's something we've talked about" "It's like the flu" "It's not like the flu" "anyone who wants a test can get one" "we are scrambling to find tests" "The tests are being produced by the millions and are on the way!" "No, we don't have tests".
I don't fault him for not closing the borders down earlier, that was a tough spot. I fault him for horrendous communication, a poor roll out of testing, and an inability to get satellite hospitals set up in places like NYC.
Take the floating hospital sent to NYC that Trump has been patting himself on the back over all week. It's been there for awhile and has seen a whooping of twenty patients. They won't allow the others aboard because of a list of 50 medical conditions they don't want to deal with. The head of biggest hospitals in NY is calling it "a joke". It's use was very poorly planned and this obviously was not a solution. If Trump's team would spend half as much time dealing with this as they have spent patting themselves on the back for an action that isn't working, we might actually treat some sick folks. But that doesn't seem to be where their priorities lie.
Biggest city in our nation, the center of finance, has needed a satellite hospital for like a month and it's April and they still have nothing resembling that. That's not a issue other leaders haven't been able to handle.