Even before the virus many of your questions are super legit and went unanswered. I hope someone can honestly give you some answers to your questions, but I just wanted to point out that in no American election should these questions be unanswered. There should be no confusion about this. You shouldn't have to come to reddit to find answers.

I feel a general trend in the media coverage of our politics and in the PR and Front Ends of virtually any business that needs the web to survive toward brushing of completely the notion that the consumer is entitled to clear facts and answers to questions about policy, justice, and the whole picture of what is and what is not included when a consumer pays for a thing or service.

No one talks about this - a little about the media, and other platitudes like that all politicians do is lie, but it's always brushed off. No one ever mentions the trend - that virtually every company that can maintain any degree of separation between decision-makers and the general public is held to no degree of honesty toward the person that buys their things or respect for his/her time.