So you are focused on appearances more than actual outcomes. You want someone to tell you what you want to hear. Performance of this administration has been respectable. No one ran out of ventilators, operation warp speed has produced a vaccine with a few more on the way. How do Cuomo and President Xi escape criticism? As far as performance it is similar to Europe. Compare 320 million population with 320 million and the death total is similar. Add up all the deaths of UK, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal. You still don’t have 320 million population and deaths are pretty close to matching the US.