Bring up NY and nursing homes and Avoid the miss/under counting in FLA. Don't know for sure if that counts as a "straw man" but if not it isn't far off.The responsibility for the conditions where the vast majority of US deaths happened was in the hands of local and state officials because we don't have a centralized controlled communist government like China. This fantasy that the federal government had some sort of magical control over state governors should have been put to rest by what's actually happened in the last year. So yes, those state governors should have handled things better.
So you think those governors for the most part weren't taking their marching orders from a guy , a guy that was spouting off many controversial, nonscientific things daily? Hell, they still are and you know it. I don't.