If New York was a country it would be 2.3 times worse than Italy. Add New Jersey and the combined area is 4.8 times as deadly as Italy. Both States had a policy of sending covid patients to nursing homes.
No, I’m blaming CHINA where it was deliberately allowed to travel by air while they shut down ground travel.
WOW. First off you divided the world into Asian American and white people which is a simplistic and rather racist view of the world. All the other groups that form New York are non existent. Secondly, you assume other businesses weren’t trashed by the pandemic.
The Federal Government isn’t empowered to to enforce restrictions. It is forbidden to send in troops unless a states requests them. Guidelines were put in place and resources were martialed within the scope of the War Powers Act to make needed medical products and fast-track vaccines. We’re looking at the fastest vaccine response in history by a significant amount. Prior to this the Mumps vaccine was the fastest and it took 4 years to develop.