Your lens is way too narrow. NYC and the northeast to a lesser extent is melting down. Until that's under control, and other areas aren't peaking nothing is going to happen. The only other way around that is shutting those places down and forcing the people to stay put. That's not apt to happen.
You're not racing when a few thousand people a day are dying.
The grass is green in your backyard? Cool for you. Don't boast about it, because it's not like that here.