When all is said and done, I’d suspect that as a whole, most states will wind up with a similar proportion of their population with documented covid. Well... except Florida because they’re Florida. So if that happens, is one approach really any better than the other? If anything, the earlier cases in NY could be worse since they didn’t have the knowledge of how to treat yet at that point.
It’ll vary a bit from state to state thanks to thinks like population density, but I fully understand spect similar rates.