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To analyze the U.S. government's response to the epidemic that was circulating in China's Hubei Province, one comes to the conclusion that the COVID-19 variation of a coronavirus entered the United States in two different waves. (Maybe even three waves, originally unnoticed.)

In January, U.S. citizens and residents became infected in China, on cruise ships in the Far East, or while traveling alongside those infected overseas in enclosed airplanes flying home, or on business trips. We can't just abandon our citizens in foreign countries. But there was – to the best of our current knowledge – no contagion happening inside the U.S. until Feb. 26.

Those infected overseas did not indicate a problem here in the United States. People brought home after falling sick on the other side of the planet are a different situation. Our already infected countrymen returning home were put into quarantine whenever identified.

But then a second wave followed from Europe, where left-wing policies encouraged open borders, caring about the virus' feelings (I embellish, of course). Once COVID-19 had overrun the European continent, it was carried from there to the United States, such as on the heavily traveled London-New York City air route.

Yet by Jan. 31, the Trump administration had already activated the complete health care powers and systems of the U.S. government. On Jan. 29, Trump established a national task force to coordinate efforts to fight the disease.

Also on Jan. 29, experts were saying Trump was over-reacting. For example, Marc Siegel, M.D., wrote in the Los Angeles Times, "Wuhan Coronavirus is not a threat, but the Flu is." On Feb. 3, Bloomberg reported: "China Blasts U.S. for 'Overreaction' to Virus, Spreading Fear."

On Feb. 5, Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., accused on Twitter: "The premature travel ban to and from China by the current administration is just an excuse to his ongoing war against immigrants."