The overt messaging is certainly mostly on one side, but actions taken by the other side do not indicate that they believe containing the virus is a worthy cause either. Otherwise we would still be in lockdown with generous benefits provided to all until certain health benchmarks are met, and the eviction moratorium would be extended indefinitely, for instance. Instead, the working poor have to continue to put their lives at risk flipping Whoppers at a Burger King for $8.00 an hour because their unemployment benefits have run out and they will start being evicted from their apartments in 2 days.
Unfortunately it seems as if both parties serve capital and they have decided that opening up the economy and further enriching themselves and their donors is more important than millions of people dead around the globe. One side is at least honest with everyone that they don't care if mee-maw and paw-paw have to die in agony in order to secure those quarterly profits.
We did come together on 9/11, but is anyone truly better off because of this "coming together"? The 9/11-style unity led to a 20 year war in Afghanistan that only now might be ending this year if we are lucky. The 9/11 unity also led to a war that killed close to 1 million Iraqis, and the current President was one of the biggest proponents of this war. So yes, Republicans and Democrats did come together after 9/11. But no one was truly better off because of it, aside from Exxon-Mobil, Northrop-Grummun, Lockheed-Martin, etc. It made us feel good for a bit, I guess. And it sure beats being vaporized by a bomb with a Raytheon logo on it!
I think it's fair to say that most everyone, even the mega-rich, would have preferred if the virus never happened. But I disagree that everyone benefits from taking measures necessary to eradicate the virus now that it's here. A hard lockdown, increased hazard-pay, generous unemployment benefits, an eviction moratorium, debt cancellation, etc. would help mostly everyone and would be the biggest transfer of wealth from the rich to the poor in our history. Which is why it will never happen. The rich depend on keeping the working poor in a constant state of fear, and by giving the working poor a sniff of these generous benefits there is a big risk to capital. We're already kind of seeing it with the "labor shortage", i.e. companies too cheap to pay their employees a living wage. Workers figured hey, why work at some shitty job when they can't even match the unemployment check I'm getting? That scares the mega-rich.