President Trump told the hosts of Fox & Friends on Wednesday that the coronavirus will “go away like things go away.” That’s non-falsifiable, but it’s silly. “Absolutely no question in my mind it will go away,” he said later in the day at the White House. “Frankly, sooner rather than later.”

Hopefulness is certainly more than welcome considering our immediate prospects, and considering how prevailing gloom has led to draconian restrictions and general despair. Yet the president’s messaging on the virus has too often been simplistic, tone-deaf, and dissonant, and it continues to be so.