PANDEMIC AS PROLOGUE
The coronavirus needs no introduction. The disease has stalked the globe, slaying tens of thousands, infecting millions, and erasing trillions in economic activity. Artists’ renderings of the bug as a blue sphere with red frilly excrescences have hung on our small screens like so many notions of the Death Star—infection as celebrity. Nearly all other mass-cult mug shots, from Kanye and Kim to Harry and Meghan, have faded into irrelevance.
But not President Donald Trump, however, crisis-managing via TV appearances, Drs. Deborah Birx and Anthony Fauci sometimes at his side. Governor Andrew Cuomo of hard-hit New York joined them in ubiquity, giving daily briefings of his own. How do their performances in this crisis compare to
