Has the election con started?
Here's the plan as it appears to be.
Fake the end of the pandemic by stopping counting the sick.
Force everyone back to work.
Deny deaths.
Try to win the election by claiming a booming economy.
Live with it is the slogan, regardless of the fact there was a choice, which was to live without it. Every other country chose that.
Only a sociopath conman would come up with a plan of this sort. But that is who the US has in charge.
It's possible there's another reason Texas is not releasing its numbers. But given it's a Bananarepublican state, I suspect they are lying conmen.