re: "It turns out that the American theater has no towering figure even attempting to lead it through this crisis, the way Andrew Lloyd Webber has in Britain. "
You are wrong about just about everything. I will leave your anti-science shtick to someone else and will only address two points. New York has and continues to follow science, not threats. That lawsuit was impotent, a lawyer's grandstanding to try and pick up a bit of coin. ALW is a silly old man who also happens to be a dyed in the wool Tory and (maybe like you) cares more about money than human life.
Trivia question: what country has a higher covid death toll per 100K? US or UK?