>>I think that the reason for the difference is that the people in power in Florida and the people in power in NY took almost exactly opposite courses of action based on the data available. Florida took a very targeted approach and never had the draconian measures that NY took.
Overnight the UK Telegraph published an article calling it a "world scandal" that there's still no evidence that the lockdown "experiment" (their word) made any difference.
The article laments expert analysis in professional journals raising this concern, being systematically shrouded on contact with the official "narrative" (also their word).
The Telegraph is MSM so left-leaning, suggesting that the "science" zealots may be alienating even their natural allies this time. I've no doubt that future historians will refer to pompous popular scolding about "science" from people displaying aggressive anti-science behavior, as if they think science is a cult where everybody can be a high priest empowered to punish the unbelievers.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1