Absolute nonsense.
Taking a sample of a date to your liking. stop with the excuses and look at total numbers from the beginning of the pandemic.
From the beginning of the pandemic, New York vs Florida.
New York had the initial surge, when we were all clueless and thought we needed to keep 20 feet apart, sanitize all groceries, etc. and doctors had no idea how to treat it.
Florida had a much small case load and locked down, but then ignored everything we had learned and re-opened completely in time for Memorial Day and July 4 tourists. And we got that predictable, unnecessary surge.