I certainly hope that Florida never approaches NY's deaths, whether in raw numbers or as a percentage of population. I expect they will not, because we now understand how to treat the virus better and because the average age of infected Floridians is much younger. But it is curious to me that 4,241 largely avoidable deaths is seen a victory. FL had every chance to head this off and chose not to, solely because of bad national leadership and bad state leadership eager to follow the example of the bad national leader. An entire continent of nations that don't even speak a common language or share a common health or financial system figured this out and headed it off and is now back to living a largely normal existence. Our theoretically united country with the theoretically best health care system in the world completely failed to do this. Trump defenders will try to come up with all kinds of rationalizations and deflections about why this is so, but it comes down to a complete failure of national political leadership.