Adams: This Two Weeks Is "Going To Be Our Pearl Harbor," But We "Have The Power To Change The Trajectory"

It's interesting how much it helps to have an adult speak publicly and officially on the topic. At center stage we've Trump's bumbling, spastic inarticulateness, outshone in its ostentatious unhelpfulness only by the hysterical, partisan shittiness of the media. We'd be better off letting Pence, Adams, Fauci, Birx et al. speak to empty rooms. I still try to glance at the NYT because it's important to know what the ostensible "newspaper of record" is saying...but I'm beginning to wonder whether they've hired screenwriters to make their plague headlines even more overwrought. Contrast the histrionic headlines of the last few weeks with Adams's words. He's pulling no punches. There's no possible way to charge him with undue optimism. But he's not actively trying to panic people.
   On the bright (?) side, the media is so puerile, idiotic, irrational, partisan, petty and vindictive that it makes Trump look downright nearly-adequate. Which, antecedently, one might have thought impossible. Inter alia, they're still ignoring our far-better-than-average per capita mortality rate, preferring to hammer on the total number of deaths--which number tells only the worst-sounding part of the story.
   I still can't tell what's going on. Our area still seems to be doing alright...great, even, compared to what we're hearing. I'm skeptical about the country as a whole being on a trajectory toward a bloodbath. But I reckon we'll see.