There is no ethical way for government to control a plague, only authoritarianism. A government showing adequate restraint can do little more than monitor the situation and keep everyone informed of things such as risk factors. We were told there is a plague going around; now it is up to you to decide how careful you need to be. People catching the disease is nobody's fault but their own. And for a disease that is every bit as infectious as the flu, there is no not catching it. We're all going to have to cross that bridge sooner or later; holding out for a vaccine is a pipe dream.
And Trump didn't fire a fifth of the workforce, the governors did that. For what they're doing, treason is not too strong a word.
I think we would look at the same transcripts and disagree about what was said.
A'ight the US death toll tops 80,000 and the economy suffers the worst job losses since the Great Depression.