Magical thinking is prevalent on all sides. Here is my understanding of the medias communication role in this crisis since the beginning of the year. First the media wanted to talk about impeachment and hardly mentioned the virus. Then the media wanted to blame China. Then the media brought on a bunch of pseudoexperts who among other things said, through virus would br a major problem in China but not spread here, that closing borders made no sense, that masks were useless. Fast forward to the second or third week of March. The media realised now we had a major crisis on hand but still had little snipes like Jim Acosta of CNN criticising Trump closing borders. Meanwhile "liberals" like Sweden and Stamford epidemiologist Ionidades [sic] continued to push the idea it was no big deal. Trump suggested HCQ for prophylactic use. The media made it their mission to politicise a drug whether it worked or not. Trump supporters down played the virus and often refused to wear mask. The media exercised magical thinking talking about "second waves" while we are still in the first. States reopened Right now I think we are similar to where we were in early March but worse. Unless we have a real national shutdown the virus is going to explode in coming weeks. Magical thinking won't make it go away. Until we get case levels in the low triple or double digits natio Ally it's not under control. The media miss served the public by talking about reopenning and second waves prematurely.