Trump was bad, Cuomo wasn’t much better. Moderate social distancing measures, encouraging MTA employees and riders to wear masks (rather than forbidding employees from wearing masks), and public education starting in mid-February would have likely averted the outbreak to the point that drastic measures wouldn’t have been needed. Everyone (including European governments) did too little, too late.

The only countries that were on point were South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, etc, and that was because they learned the hard way with SARS in 2003.