At that point no businesses US were closed because of covid, but Chinese businesses were unproportionally hurt because president called covid a "china virus".
You're trying to smear somebody that they are making it political while they are actually trying to unpoliticize it.
Again, "Not me and my side, it was all the other guys."
The Washington Post reported that six other countries had restricted travel from China before January 30, six did so on January 31, and by the time U.S. travel restrictions became effective on February 2, 38 other countries had taken action before or at the same time as the U.S. restrictions.
In what universe does telling people to get out and gather in groups make sense when there is a pandemic looming.
Looking at the timeline: "The first case of community transmission, because it had no known origin, is confirmed in Solano County, California, on February 26."
So the day after the call to gather, you have confirmed community spread.
IIRC Italy had a similar issue, where authorities initially tried to encourage gatherings to downplay Covid and made public events themselves for PR, there was a "Milan doesn't stop" campaign, etc - while (in hindsight) those were the key weeks where very rapid spread was happening, causing thousands of deaths afterwards
> Looking at the timeline: "The first case of community transmission, because it had no known origin, is confirmed in Solano County, California, on February 26."
Wasn't there a community-spread case in Seattle a little earlier than that?
You're trying to smear somebody that they are making it political while they are actually trying to unpoliticize it.
This was before emrgency was declared. And only 8 people were confirmed in California. Check the timeline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_COVID-19_pande...