HN sinks to the gutter every time China pops up as a subject and no discussion is possible, as seen from the reaction to my previous comment.
People here read alternate sources of news, see the videos leaking out on the Internet, they're very savy and know that any reporting that rely on CCP as primary source of info are bird cage liner. The CCP acted in bad faith, and the world suffered for it, and this isn't the first time.
Or are you one of those bigots that can't separate the government from the people? Calling out the CCP has zilch to do with bigotry. Taiwan, HK and Chinese-Americans and diaspora (hence why they got out) aren't the same people and don't endorse the actions of the CCP. Calling out the jailing of journalists, arresting of doctors, and actions like currently rounding up black people in Guangzhou and putting them out in the street. Unless calling out racism by the government authorities is racist? It's as silly as saying calling out British government is calling out all white people, or bigotry towards the Scotish. China is 50+ ethnicities, besides the Han Chinese, so its a dumb argument to say China and race are equivalent, its a border and a government, that's it.
Chinese ex-pats know exactly what's going on there. They still have family there and see what's going on in Chinese social media and what's getting censored.
You can't scream racism and bigotry because someone criticizes a government, that's how we know you're a joke and likely a 50 center.
At the time the vast majority of the cases in China were in Wuhan and Hubei, which had been put on lockdown with airports closed, but the rest of the country has much fewer cases.
No country imposed full ban on travels with countries that had the number of cases seen in China outside Wuhan/Hubei.
Whether this was the right or wrong decision to make is another issue.
The same discussion can be had about travellers from Italy just a few weeks later.
At the end of the day it is also down to each country to make its own decision on who to accept.