There were too many other states run by Democrats that had high casualties to be due to chance. I believe it was mass murder. Murder simply to drive up the fear of this virus so that election laws could be made fraud friendly. Even the riots played their part: by intimidating judges into refusing cases involving election Fraud.
It was a Communist coup and it worked. The virus was an act of war and those who gave aid and comfort to the enemy are guilty of treason and need to hang.