Sorry, don't see your logic. 2020 was no vaccine and no one really knew what was going on. Election 2020 was destroyed by frumpt along with any republiqans warped idea of honesty. That was also the time frumpt failed to handle covid-19 and all the bullshit started about rights to wear a mask and vaccine refusal due to the 'murican rights, that don't exist by the way concerning pandemics. All red states and mostly in the south.
Whatever these public safety people are thinking now, came after early 2020.