In one way, I feel sorry for people trying to make any government decisions about this Covid-19. I saw my own place of employment struggle for about 10 days to figure out what to do next.

I will address your essay on two fronts.

First, if we are looking for an electoral system that is somewhat immune from pandemics, may I suggest Tiered Democratic Governance? Part of my newest Medium article deals with how the TDG won’t be affected that much.

True it is that the R’s are probably more concerned about their electoral success than improved democracy. But that argument goes both ways. D’s have been stonewalling the R request to have voters show some ID at the polls. Why do the D’s resist this change? Because it reduces their electoral success. So, in a significant way, the R’s trying to justify their position is a response to the D’s being successful in suppress voter ID.