First bolded- That proves he knew there was a serious issue. He offered to help China, which is good. But that means, he knew something was going down and instead of preparing us, he denied it would happen here.
Second bolded. Stop. He did not "ban" travel. He "restricted". Big difference or as the orange man would say, a yuuuuge difference. Those restrictions did not even stop flights coming directly from china here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/u...trictions.html
"Since Chinese officials disclosed the outbreak of a mysterious pneumonialike illness to international health officials on New Year’s Eve, at least 430,000 people have arrived in the United States on direct flights from China, including nearly 40,000 in the two months after President Trump imposed restrictions on such travel, according to an analysis of data collected in both countries."
https://www.factcheck.org/2020/03/th...-restrictions/
"For starters, health experts say Trump was wrong to refer to the travel restrictions as a “travel ban,” as he did in a telephone interview on March 4 with Fox News’ Sean Hannity. During a town hall on March 5, Trump said he “closed down the borders to China and to other areas that are very badly affected.” That’s not accurate.
As Azar explained when he announced the travel restrictions on Jan. 31, the policy prohibits non-U.S. citizens, other than the immediate family of U.S. citizens and permanent residents, who have traveled to China within the last two weeks from entering the U.S.
At a House subcommittee hearing on the coronavirus on Feb. 5, Ron Klain, White House Ebola response coordinator under the Obama administration, took issue with the characterization of the travel restrictions as a travel “ban.”
“We don’t have a travel ban,” Klain said. “We have a travel Band-Aid right now. First, before it was imposed, 300,000 people came here from China in the previous month. So, the horse is out of the barn.”"
Think about this. He thought it was scary enough to want travel restrictions but didn't want to get tests made and get PPEs ready? So he recognized the danger- (ie, he knew the quiz was coming.) Ad he didn't prepare.