David Schulner said that `` what the mirror reflects back is too horrifying to look at '' when he talked about scenes from his show that reminisce the coronavirus pandemic .
The show 's creator David Schulner acknowledged that scenes from the episode were eerily reminiscent of those actually being faced by New York City in the pandemic , and that `` the world needs a lot less fiction right now , and a lot more facts '' .
Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on television