Actually, it was this past summer when FL overtook NY.
Right, because most all the deaths in NY happened in the first month of the pandemic, before anyone had a handle on what was happening:
So NY and NJ took measures to mitigate COVID, resulting in the above charts, while FL and TX did not, resulting in the above chart.
Your stupid arguments don't work on people like me because I'm smarter and more thorough than you will ever be.