I prefer to not be optimistic until after the election is over... Everyone thought "there's no chance in hell this orange idiot wins" last time, and yet here we are.
But yeah, they were happy pretending the virus was no big deal when it was primarily impacting densely-populated blue areas of the country. But now that it's moved on to more red states, it will be interesting if they actually decide that they should take it seriously...or if they're just going to keep ignoring/politicizing it as if that will magically make it go away.