So the inept response from the executive branch may be a well orchestrated attempt at voter suppression? Taking this a step further, it could just as easily be a ploy to suspend elections and go to universal on-line voting in the interest of "public health".
The effect is all-too-convenient and hard to dismiss. Your point is perfectly apt and I hesitate to limit it to just that.
If it’s deliberate, either through action or inaction (i.e., deliberate ineptitude), it truly is treacherous. The actual intent will have to be discerned among all the other crises that crowd has seen fit to foist upon us the past 6+ years.
Regardless, I no longer believe there’s a real threat (other than an intentional epidemic; for that, I refer back to ‘deliberate ineptitude’). Again...just my own .02