The crisis is one of totalitarianism.
The followers of a totalitarian Leader believe him over all experts and all evidence.
Once this coronavirus is past, we will be told that the Leader was right all along. It was all politics by people that hate the Dear Leader. It was a hoax. The government showed how powerful it was by shutting down everything from sporting events to schools to government offices, to crashing the stock market.
It was all the fault of the "drive-by" media. People were easily panicked into buying up all the bread and toilet paper they could find, as if those were the keys to escaping the apocalypse.
When people are so attached to a totalitarian Leader, no degree of disaster or crisis can change their minds about their Leader. Even if he contradicts himself from day to day, it doesn't matter to them. They have absolute loyalty to their Leader.
That is the problem our country is encountering and is even more dangerous than the coronavirus savaging the lungs of victims around the world.
It will be even worse once we have recovered from this disaster.