Say what you will about Trump, he has stopped playing:
https://trumpgolfcount.com/displayoutings
During his last round on March 8th he said "It's not as bad as the press is making it out to be"
That's probably still true, as Drs. Fauci and Birx are taking great pains to TRY and point out to our useless press. It was also two days before DeBlasio tweeted "we want to encourage people to go out." "there's very little threat here. This disease, even if you were to get it, basically acts like a common cold or flu."
"Heckuva job" as they say by ALL of those responsible to protect us, not just the "other team."
So Bernie the press probably isn't completely useless; you seem to be getting information about this situation from somewhere, right? Even if you're getting it from the internet, it got to the internet from somewhere, didn't it?
But that said, you're hearing Fauci a LOT differently than I am. I heard Birx talk about the variability in statistical models, and I understand what she was saying, but I haven't heard Fauci say even once that this isn't as bad as it seems. He seems to be a consistent voice of reason in all of this, and he estimated yesterday that we would see between 100,000 and 200,000 deaths in the US in the coming months. And, of course, the flipside of Brix's take on the statistical models is that they could be wrong in EITHER direction. Fauci, who seems to rely on the algorithms and statistical models, qualifies that by pointing out that the virus is still a "moving target", but that it could be moving in either direction. In short, I wouldn't confuse what Brix said with what either the mayor of NYC or the president said when they were relying on their intuition rather than science.
Meanwhile, Brix yesterday said this; "No state, no metro area, will be spared." Brix also referenced the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, whose director is a man named Chris Murray, widely regarded to be the best in the country, if not the world, at forecasting things like this. FWIW, he uses algorithms, not intuition, and he predicts a 50,000 shortfall of hospital beds by April 14th, with a 15,000 bed ICU shortfall. The spillover, of course, is that we aren't just talking at that point about Covid19 deaths, we're also going to have heart attack patients and car accident victims and cancer patients and sick children and so on getting a lower standard of care than "normal" because of the strain on the healthcare system and its workers.
I must say, I found nothing in what either Fauci or Brix said to indicate in any way that they believed that this is being made to look worse than it is by the press. And, FWIW, Fauci was speaking on CNN and Brix on "Meet the Press", so it would seem that they don't view the press as "useless" at all; I imagine both had plenty to do yesterday without looking for ways to waste time.