It is a pandemic -- a real one ... a deadly vicious virus, -- even assuming the infection rate is vastly under-reported due to asymptomatic and other persons who are not tested.
Americans from all political segments are jumping through their ass to fight and manage "the beast." They are working in concert.
Governors have difficult painstaking decisions to make consistent with their duty to protect the public and keep the economies afloat.
It is "not all about politics" or the "media" or whomever else you want to pretend are the puppeteers.