This has never been about protecting those at risk of dying because the more that die the better the agenda will work.
Although, apparently according to pollsters, trump has a lot of support among older voters, and although we've lost a quarter of a million to covid, they'd all have to have been Trump's voters concentrated in the "swing states" to have had much affect on the election outcome. Although it is a delicious thought that Trump's incompetence helped kill off his own base. But that alone, can not explain his retched election results. But when you combine that with insulting a crowd of 100% Trump voters in Erie by telling them he'd rather not be there, telling people of color to go back to their country, calling mexicans murderers and rapists, trying to ban muslims from traveling to the U.S., antagonizing the LBGT community, calling Baltimore a shit hole, suggesting that blacks were going to move into suburbs and then their wouldn't be any suburbs, firing untold numbers of competent public servants for doing their jobs --Vindman, several inspectors general, and countless others, and replacing them with loyal incompetent campaign contributors, getting himself impeached by trying to extort the President of Ukraine to investigate his political rival's son, getting himself impeached, caging for months children in dog kennel like facilities, separating mothers from breast feeding infants then losing track of mother and child. Insulting gold star families and war heroes and soldiers, gassing peaceful demonstrators so he could have a photo opp holding a bible upside down, abandoning our allies on the battle field, bragging endlessly about the stock market while millions could barely make ends meet, claiming Mexico would pay for a Wall which he never built, cozying up to vile dictators, throwing U.S. international markets into chaos causing U.S. farmers to lose billions to foreign competition, maybe permanently in some cases. And then trying to buy the farmers he'd ruined with cash payments. Abandoning DACHA, and both deporting and threatening adults who had lived all there lives from the time they were children in the United States even though they knew no other country, even those serving in U.S. armed forces. Announcing he wanted to buy Greenland before checking with the Danes, countless other insane and lunatic acts, and non-stop lying easily explain the election results. What will never be explainable is why anyone, other than those who are retarded, and despite their misgivings concerning his political opposition, voted for him.
P.S. I only touched on a tiny fraction of the idiotic, ham handed, stupid, unjustified, ridiculous, mean, spiteful and harmful things Donald Trump did while in office as President. And I didn't even start on his many illegal acts, which he only avoided being removed from office for by replacing everyone who might oppose him with loyalists, sycophants, and morons.