When a family member's lifeless body disappears beneath the zipper of your local hospital's body bag, are there healthcare officials waiting with clipboards in hand asking to which political party the deceased belonged?

Are coroners and medical examiners equipped with two different, distinctive death certificates, issuing a blue one for a Democrat’s death and a red version for a Republican's?

Is the Grim Reaper tallying up liberal deaths versus conservative ones on his cosmic chalkboard?

No, death doesn’t care about your political persuasion.

Yet, as the deaths are totaled, we remain on a path to complete political separation wherein the future version of yourself may be identified primarily by what political party you're affiliated with. Party above all else!

The United States has become a virtual street fight, pitting media and their audiences, on both the left and right, in gang-like warfare against past, current and future politicians. All this undermining and treachery has created a dangerous no-win crisis that is being over-amped and leaving American citizens overexposed. People are afraid to leave their homes, afraid to go to work and equally afraid of going broke.

Seven out of the eight stories on the Fox News Website on Tuesday were COVID-19 related, while the CNN site focused on bleak projections of the deadly virus and hurling amplified allegations of mistakes made by the president. Local television stations, aside from a look at your weather forecast, spend their broadcasts reviewing local death rates and the latest Governor Lamont executive orders.

We are being overwhelmed with dire information. Americans are anxious.

Adding to the country’s misery is a clear, slanted depiction of the competency of this administration. There is no doubt that President Trump invites his attackers with ridiculous antics ranging from his constant, self-aggrandizing to his incessant gutter battles with reporters whose sole purpose seems to be to catch the president in a highlight reel “Gotcha!” moment.

Still, the left-leaning, media-driven narrative that Trump has bungled and botched his way through this crisis is patently unfair. Everything "the orange man" does isn't evil.

As recently as late February, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, stated that "Americans did not yet need to change their behaviors."

Around the same time Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi toured San Francisco’s Chinatown to send this message, “We should come to Chinatown. Precautions have been taken by our city. We know that there is concern surrounding tourism, traveling all throughout the world, but we think it’s very safe to be in Chinatown and hope that others will come.”

Pelosi toured the area, hugging friends and waving to onlookers.

Given the thinking at the time, what exactly should Trump have done differently? The highest level of political and medical leadership was giving the public the "all clear” signal into early March.

Maybe, in hindsight, the president should have ordered more personal protective devices manufactured and prioritized creating an easier testing system that could have been administered quickly to infected areas.

Without question the lack of foresight regarding testing equipment will go down as the president’s Achilles heel as it pertains to COVID-19. However, Americans are normally very non-compliant, so how many people would have offered themselves up for testing if they were not feeling sick? According to recent reports, over 25% of infected individuals remain asymptomatic.

This administration has delivered on many of its promises. Kayleigh McEnany, White House press secretary, tweeted over the weekend this administration “secured 523 MILLION gloves, 69 MILLION surgical masks, 55 MILLION N95 respirators,10.5 MILLION surgical gowns, 5.9 MILLION face shields, 10,998 ventilators, and 8,450 federal medical station beds.”

Every action this president took faced carefully constructed criticism from the Democrats. The attacks are often emotionally based on a deep, unfettered hatred of Trump. Connecticut’s own Senator Chris Murphy essentially stood on the bodies of dead citizens to wave an anti-Trump, pro-Democrat banner, when he said, “The reason we are in the crisis today is not because of anything China did, it’s not anything the WHO did, it's because of what this president did.” Exonerating China for this pandemic is shameful.

These constant political quarrels overshadow the awe-inspiring efforts that our healthcare providers are undertaking. We are losing sight of the remarkable work accomplished by the doctors and nurses, indistinguishable behind the anonymity of their surgical masks. They bring hope to the hopeless.

This country has survived two world wars, countless conflicts, the Great Depression, the Spanish Flu, various natural disasters and 9/11. Past circumstances required this nation to band together.

It’s crucial that we again pause the political fisticuffs and unite, remembering we are all Americans first.

Lee Elci is the morning host for 94.9 News Now radio, a station that provides "Stimulating Talk" with a conservative bent.