"dying at different times" is to remind our fellow readers that it wasn't just antivax folks. most folks that died early had more D demographic traits. Most people that died later didn't.
early pandemic
Figure 1. Age-adjusted COVID-19 death rates, by urbanicity of county of residence: United States, 2020
this flipped later
In the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, relative excess mortality increased in rural counties in the U.S. while decreasing in metropolitan ones, according to a new study led by the University of Pennsylvania and Boston University. Published in Science Advances, it’s the first-ever study showing monthly excess deaths at the county level for the first two years of the pandemic.
i post those because people seem to assume that covid deaths naturally mean huge net D votes. there might be some net D affect, but we have to remember that we have a bit of a recency bias here and forgot who it was killing at the outset.