Did you want the economy to shut down earlier with panic sooner?
Practicality and pragmatism. Nurses and doctors on the frontlines need masks more, they're the ones actually fighting this up close.
Trump lied to the public about this thing for 2 months, and has been lying a good bit to try and retell the history of what has happened in the last 2 months to make him look like the hero in all of this.
We don't have an infinite amount of resources here.