Normal flu seasons don’t kill 35k in a month. It will be great news if Covid-19 turns out to be less serious than expected, but 1) it is not like influenza (if only because there is no vaccine). And 2) blaming media reports and politicians makes no sense to me when Fauci, CDC, NIH and other medical experts concurred in the steps the states took. At any point Fauci could have said “stop, this is no big deal” and every major media outlet would have reported that. (Btw, he still isn’t saying that...)
And to say “see, deaths are only projected to be 60k” after 4-6 weeks in which most of the country was locked down seems odd to me. It’s like the guy standing in a driving rainstorm who throws away his umbrella because he isn’t getting wet.