Pretty easy to answer. Give the Chicoms what they need to fight it, so that it might be halted or at least slowed over there. It makes sense. It is enlightened self-interest, not “generosity”. At the same time, travel was banned and returning non-citizens were quarantined. Returning citizens were asked to self-quarantine, but enough didn’t that it spread anyway.
Yeah, all the production on earth is in China. So why did we have to send product BACK to the factory. They didn’t need a thing from us.
This is just State Department virtue signalling. Same as them going behind Trump’s back to fly infected people from that cruise ship back to America, and in a plane with healthy people.
There was zero need to send China a single mask.
The big spread came in through the backdoor, ie Italy.