Two party states lead to tribalism.
The party that wasn't in power at the time was the first to talk about containing it, and that led the other party to practically be against containing it.
Such is how U.S.A. political issues tend to be decided.
Such is how U.S.A. political issues tend to be decided.
Pelosi was encouraging people to go out and visit Chinatown in February, while Trump was talking about shutting down travel from China in January.
Which one of those approaches sounds like containment to you?
And it's curious that you focus on Chinatown in February instead of 300 days of minimising mask wearing and calling for LIBERATING states from coronavirus restrictions.
And if you think that one set of containment measures is better than another (masks vs shutting down travel vs closing down public places), then that's a separate discussion to OP's comment who clearly stated that one political party tried to contain it while the other one did not, which is complete tribal nonsense.
PS - you should apologize for the racism comment.
Shutting down flights from China was for show. The virus was already spreading inside the US, and infected people continued to fly in from Europe. Trump's brand is being tough on borders, so he shut down travel from China, declared victory, and then did nothing.
Months later, after nearly 300k confirmed deaths, Trump still boasts about closing down travel from China - one minimally impactful measure he took early on.
Here's what real containment would have been in late January and early February: ramping up testing and contact tracing as quickly as possible, maybe even locking down cities and grounding flights. That might have been politically impossible back then, but Trump wasn't pushing in that direction at all. He was worried about reassuring the markets.