Comparing Idaho to NY is a joke, right? 3 million Europeans came thru JFK in January, Feb and March - almost double the population of Idaho. Public transportation in Idaho is a horse, right? The 3 million people spread Covid everywhere at a time when we really didn't have any containment strategies but then we learned and now on a daily basis NY has less deaths than Idaho despite there being approximately 9 New Yorkers for every Idahoan.
No one is perfect, including Cuomo but he worked his ass off with daily news conferences explaining clearly and without lies what was happening and what we needed to do and now NY is one of the safest, if not the safest places to be.
Trump on the other hand encourages the opposite. How insane was it to have 1500 people at the White House, most not being tested, without masks the other night? That is the perfect example of his recklessness and his refusal to set an example for Americans. It's why millions of Americans think he's responsible for killing thousands and thousands of Americans indirectly. Don't you think President Obama would have done everything he would have to encourage everyone to wear a mask? Wouldn't Obama himself worn masks all the time? Doesn't Biden wear a mask all the time?
BTW - you exaggerated NY State deaths by 25%. 32K have died, not 40K.
Bottom line is that mask wearing, restaurants being open only for outdoor dining, bars closed, 90%+ of the population wearing a mask are why we had 3 deaths yesterday.
Idaho is almost all rural and has no density (though it does have some really dense people)...