Look, the virus just knows these things.
In some cities, politicians outsmarted the virus with evasive tactics, such as closing bars at 10pm, and mandating one-way aisles in grocery stores.
Many lives were were saved.
A better study would be to examine the rise of petty tyranny as measured by political affiliation.
In New York, Cuomo shipped covid patients to nursing homes, and how many did that procedure kill.
Exactly. The virus was tricky enough that it was a danger to a lone stand up paddle boarder in California, and thank God the authorities used helicopters, boats and beach personnel to lock him up. It was a danger to him but not to Governor Newsom who ate dinner at a top shelf restaurant surrounded by lobbyists and pharmaceutical company executives.