Surely, we are not going to agree about a lot of the details, but it is true that some kinds of stances in regards to misinformation just go way too far, especially from supposed leaders.. and sometimes we might think that they might just be being dumb, but sometimes the seeming ongoing denials of science and facts just seems to go way too far... - like it is on purpose... so purposefully misleading and therefore harmful to too many people.
And, hey, I surely don't believe that there is only one way to view the science or the facts, and surely, I am not of the thinking that neither politics or economics matter, because those things are important too.. and can even help to determine how to focus relief based on weighing costs and benefits on a societal level, and we can even disagree about some of that..
Yet, in any event, I would include myself as one of those who get kind of irritated by the various anti-science people and the anti-facts people who are proclaiming that they are not that way.. and I am pretty sure that Cain was one of those kind of folks.. so the karma aspect of this situation does seem to apply here.. at least tentatively from what seems to had been some of his recent stances.. prior to his death... and maybe I would not use the word amusing, even though I do understand that it was meant in a karma sense rather than any kind of personal vindictive sense (though there may reasonably be those kinds of feelings, too.. especially given the gravity of the ongoing bullshit and even ongoing lying that should have been corrected more than 8-9 months after learning about this virus thingie).
You have described my opinion on this matter better than I have. I lose my mind when I see those in positions of power being irresponsible with people lives. That is a line that shouldn't be crossed because of politics, no matter what party is doing it.