I have a close relative who is freaking out like he is. He only sees the bad news, and he is very worried.
This is a pandemic. We just need to realize what that means. We can freak out about it. Or, we can be cautious, keep calm, and carry on. For some people, that is hard to do.
People will catch it--we can't stop that without becoming a totalitarian state, and there is no reason to do so anyway. So, we can't get upset about the numbers of people who are diagnosed, because they are inevitable...especially if we are putting more money into testing than other nations have done...of course the case numbers will go up.
People will die, of course. We've always known that. We will try to save them. But, as stated at the beginning of all of this, the best we can do is to make sure that everyone gets treated. We have done that. They aren't turning people away because they don't have the resources to treat them. They are sending people home because they aren't sick enough to warrant hospital treatment, which is commonplace for this pandemic.
This all seems like the Iraq War, when every death was a horror of horrors on the news every night...until Obama was elected, and then the deaths, while still sad, of course, were nonetheless not obsessively reported on. It will be the same if Biden wins. The media will stop hyping it, and DRO will feel better.