It matters because perception affects behavior. The reality is that we are doing well in terms of the virus but the lockdown is killing small businesses.
The reality is that someone dies of covid every minute. The reality is that there's enough people that don't give a damn about asymptomatic transmission that are preventing a flattening of the curve and that leadership at every level; federal, state and local, is not enforcing measures to protect the public or if they are there are 'patriots' threatening to kill them for it. The reality is that hospitals, nurses and doctors are being overwhelmed by the increasing numbers of infections that turn deadly. The reality is that too many people are separated from reality and society can't resume normality because of such and that the economy is suffering from a huge degree of immaturity among the masses. The reality is that the damage being done to this nation is from within but it isn't from action but inaction, so far.
The reality is that wearing masks reduces transmission but too many of this particular generation are too selfish and sociopathic to care, much less understand. A hundred years ago it was a different story.
*ShruG* But who in this thread really cares about reality? Really.